Princess Before Dawn (Wide-Awake Princess, #7) by E.D. Baker, 212 pages. Bloomsbury, 2018. $17.
Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Princess Annie and Liam are trying to prepare for their upcoming coronation in Liam’s kingdom of Dorinocco, but Annie’s parents are in need of Annie’s magic dispelling abilities. Annie and Liam arrive at Treecrest to help her parents, to find the Treecrest castle overrun with unwanted guests. Annie helps disperse the witches, but the bats in the basement are more than Annie knows what to do with. When Annie realizes they are vampires and seeks help from her friends, she is drawn into the vampire politics of a neighboring kingdom.
I enjoyed all the books in the Wide-Awake Princess series, and this one is action packed. Vampires are creepier than any of the villains in the past books, but they make for a suspenseful read. The violence is PG because the vampires turn some people into vampires without permission, and it never addresses what happened to those characters. This is a great series for readers coming out of the early chapter books because they are short in length and have a lot of action but also good for middle readers who like plot-driven adventures.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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