I have know idea if you'd like this one, but here goes:

I read a book a few years ago called "Dealing with Dragons". It was similar to a retold fairytale, however this one actually made fun of the cliche-ness of said stories.

The main character is Cymorine, the ninth daughter of the King and Queen of a peaceful kingdom in which "the ladies were beatiful, the knights always kept well polished and the number 7 was fashionable. Cymorine hated it." In an attempt to escape from her boring "proper" life, Cymorine runs away on the advice of a talking frog (who wasn't an enchanted prince). At the end of her perilous journey, she ends up working as Princess for a dragon. She then must overcome:

1) an evil society of wizards

2) an attempt on her life by a once-bottled djinn

3) the plots of a treacherous dragon who wants to eat her and

4) the lame, hard-headed and rather anoying 'rescues' of about twenty knights (including her ex-fiance) who show up for her at the worst possible times.

I give this book two thumbs way up, for it's inventive plot twists, mockery of steryotyped fairy tales and for creating a princess who was actaully heroic and not a total airhead!!!

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