This is the first book I’ve read by John Moore, and had actually stumbled upon it by accident, though am glad to say that I did find it.

It starts out with a young girl kissing frogs in order to find the one that transforms into a handsome prince. Though, as I’m sure you can guess from the title, the prince isn’t exactly what one would call handsome. In fact, he’s what one would call rather geeky. (Not that geeky is a bad thing at all. Not at all.)

I found the narration to be very witty and the characters extremely sarcastic. While it was completely predictable, it didn’t change the fact that the book was exciting and kept me reading. The only real thing that didn’t seem to sit too well with me in regards to the characters in this book was that they were using phrases from modern culture when it was supposed to take place back in the day. (Could you imagine a fairy tale prince’s older brother talking about getting himself a piece of ass? No, I didn’t think so.)

I found the last two chapters to be very rushed, however. It seemed as if Moore had just thrown them together at the last moment instead of taking the time to actually write what was happening. It had the feeling that after the big climax, he just went right to an epilogue and explained what happened in the next few weeks. As well, it left a loose end or two – he mentioned something about how the spell around the prince which caused him to be a frog didn’t have the feel of magic to it, so therefore it couldn’t be magic, but didn’t explain anything further, which I have to admit, am curious to see what the magic going on in the story actually was.

All in all, though, I always really enjoy books that take a number of fairy tales and tell a story revolving around them, and have a feeling I will be looking into Moore’s other books, in the case that they are as enjoyable as this one was.