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    A Fairy-tale Ending: Book One of the Charming Tales

    By Jack Heckel

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    Collected for the first time, A Fairy-tale Ending comprises two volumes of Jack Heckel's Charming Tales: Once Upon a Rhyme and Happily Never After to become the first full novel in the Charming Tales series.

    Prince Charming had one destiny: to slay the dragon and save the princess. Both have been achieved, except there's a problem: Charming had nothing to do with either. A farmer named Will Pickett succeeded where royalty had failed—and this simply will not stand.

    Thus begins an epic adventure that has Prince Charming and Will Pickett vying with each other for the throne by challenging trolls, outwitting scoundrels, and facing all manner of fairy-tale creatures. All the while a dark sorcery envelops Castle White, and Will's sister Liz and her friend Lady Rapunzel uncover a threat to the kingdom.

    The fate of Royaume hangs in the balance as Charming tries to salvage his reputation, and the clock is ticking…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 25, 2015
    ISBN9780062420688
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    A Fairy-tale Ending: Book One of the Charming Tales
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    Jack Heckel

    Jack Heckel’s life is an open book. Actually, it’s the book you are in all hope holding right now (and if you are not holding it, he would like to tell you it can be purchased from any of your finest purveyors of the written word). He is the author of the Charming Tales series and The Dark Lord. Beyond that, Jack aspires to be either a witty, urbane, world traveler who lives on his vintage yacht, The Clever Double Entendre, or a geographically illiterate professor of literature who spends his non-writing time restoring an 18th century lighthouse off a remote part of the Vermont coastline. More than anything, Jack lives for his readers.

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    • 4/5
      This fairy-tale mash-up is light, amusing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. The source of much of the humor is Prince Charming. Oh, Charming. He was raised to be the slayer of the dragon, the hero of the realm, but he prefers to idle away the hours by using horrid couplets to woo pretty women. When a pair of young farmer siblings kill the dragon and destroy Charming's prophesied glory, his life goes topsy-turvy. While the book is overall pretty breezy, there are touches of darkness here and there due to the antagonist, a figure of great sadness and complexity. In the second half, I was amused by the take on the Seven Dwarves and the very meta, carefully-veiled references to Disney, complete with footnotes. The role of the Beast brought depth and revelation to the tale, too. Overall, the mood is downright fluffy, and that was perfect since I was fighting a migraine. I wanted something to make me smile, with a guaranteed happy ending, and this absolutely delivered.
    • 2/5
      No. I quit. I'm not going to force myself to slog through this mess of utterly selfish characters; I don't find it amusing to see them humiliated, I don't see anyone I want to root for (OK, Elizabeth isn't bad. But not worth the rest of it), and I dislike manipulators even if the rest of the story is good (and nearly everyone here is a manipulator, at one level or another). I got almost half-way through the first book, I think. I checked out the end of the book and a) it wasn't really a conclusion and b) no one seems to have changed much. So no thanks.