the princess will save you sarah henning

Please describe the content of your latest read and what can readers expect from it.

Plus, as a reader, it is so nice to have a few minutes to step into someone else’s world and get away from the one we’re in. It’s easy for readers of all ages to feel that pressure and gravitate toward characters that take control, do what’s right, and fight back against oppression and injustice. A pandemic with seemingly no ending in sight, depression-era unemployment, and a reckoning with so many of the dominant power structures in our world (the police, health care, rent control, you name it), is just so much. Tangential to that, I also think that the world is in such a state right now that’s easy to feel helpless or boxed in. I think character-driven novels always draw an audience because they make it really feel as if you’re climbing into someone’s head and going along for the ride.

Why do you feel novels with powerful and unique characters are so popular and have such a voice right now? Or maybe I just want to believe I’m truly a cinnamon roll with conviction.īut for real, though, we both get up way too early to get our work done and probably need an intervention (and more sleep). Oh, man, that’s hard to decide because all of them are little bits of me! I suppose, probably Luca, because he doesn’t gravitate toward confrontation but if he’s in a conflict his first instinct it to fight with bot humor and repetition. What character in this novel do you most relate to and why? I wanted to address the discomfort I had with Buttercup’s character arc and inaction-and that of other damsel-type characters-in my own way. As fierce as she was, she would have done whatever she could have to reclaim her life and her love. The Buttercup we met at the beginning of this story, or even in the middle of it, would’ve taken that dagger and paid revenge. She’s given up on everything after her sham of a wedding to Humperdinck, manages to secure both a private room and a dagger, and then decides she must end it because a future without Westley is too bleak.

The Princess Will Save You is inspired by my love of The Princess Bride-it’s not a retelling but it does have gender-swapped nods to that story that I adore, while also taking on the one thing that frustrates me about the original: Buttercup’s character arc.Īt the end of The Princess Bride (spoiler!), the Buttercup we see is not the feisty woman we had throughout the tale. But rather than play the game, she changes it-setting out to rescue Luca, and possibly her kingdom’s future in the process. Sarah Henning : The Princess Will Save You is the story of Princess Amarande of Ardenia, whose commoner true love, a stable boy named Luca, is kidnapped in a bid to push her into a political marriage.

Aurora: What was your inspiration behind your most recent novel?

The princess will save you sarah henning