Week 30 Review: How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

From Goodreads:

Princess Leia meets the Princess Bride with spaceships and magic and a grumpy cyborg.

Rory Thorne is a princess with 13 fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she'd inherit her father's throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium.

Then, her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world.

When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince.

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairy tale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination - how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.

My Review:
This was such a great read! I loved this world of fairy tale princes and princess etiquette, but in space! Rory had all the skills and diplomacy needed for a princess-she also had the training to use some of the Arithmancy, which was very useful! 

The first part of the book sets things up, with some of the politics that are connecting these different ruled territories. And then there was a bombing, and things went sideways. Including a minster who is shady to all out! That Rory ends up bethrothed to the prince he's regent of, well, how could that go wrong? 

The group of people that Rory has surrounding her, to help her, to protect her, Messer Rupert, Deme Grytt, Thorsdottir and Zhang, they were all vibrant characters, and it was just great to see how they worked together to get Rory out of this awful situation! 

It was so fantastic to watch Rory use her wits to overcome the bad guy! She played to expectations, and hid what she was doing in plan sight, and that made his downfall all the more delightful! She definitely earned whatever break she's getting between this book and the next! And no wonder she doesn't want to be a princess anymore, look where it got her! 

This was such a great read and I can't wait to read the sequel! 

Author: K. Eason
Series: The Thorne Chronicles #1
Read: July 28th, 2023
Source: Library 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book and a WTC Book! 
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: October 8th 2019

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars