Hidden Magic

A Hidden Magic is a light, frothy read, flush with comic misadventure but rather low on everything else. The characters are cute, but poorly defined, existing mainly as broad parodies and send-ups of the genre's cliches: the prince is beautiful, but kind of a jerk; the princess is kind and well-mann......more

Very light and quick read, but very sweet. Anything illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman is always a delight as well.......more

Princess Jennifer is a little plain but very nice. When she meets the handsome Prince Alexander she fancies herself in love and ends up in a bit of a pickle because of it. The prince has a few unpleasant flaws that get the pair in hot water with an evil witch, and Alexander gets hit hard with a slee......more

I found this book hidden away on a bookshelf in my room on a trip home to New Jersey and I couldn’t believe I’d ever forgotten about it. This was likely an influential book for me - the princess being a rather ordinary person and the charming prince being pretty horrible is a wonderful subversion of......more

Okay, so I'm basing my 5-star review on my memory of reading this book when I was, I dunno...8 or 9 years old? But I LOVED it. I loved the plucky heroine who eventually wised up and fell for the nerdy wizard instead of the handsome jerkwad prince, and I loved that she was a princess, but y'know, onl......more