This Princess Kills Monsters follows Melitot as she navigates feelings of inadequacy in front of her sisters and sorceress queen stepmother. When her stepmother arranges a marriage for her with a foreign king, she feels that she has no choice but to go along with it. While travelling to meet her betrothed, she is attacked by freakish monsters and is rescued by 12 identical masked huntsmen. There's something peculiar about these huntsmen...

I liked the sprinkling of fairy tale references throughout this novel, as well as the confidence we get to see Melitot gain over the course of the book. I also really liked how the stories within this book were told, and I actually wish that the rest of the book had been written in the same kind of humorous manner.

I think what this book suffered from was how long it was. Typically when I think of humorous books riffing off of known fairy tales I would expect them to be 200-300 pages at most. This book is over 400. As such it really felt like it dragged at parts, and by the end I had to skim through the battle scenes because my eyes were glazing over. If those scenes had been reduced and we had gotten more time for resolution with Melitot's stepmother, I think I would have been happier with the ending. Also, Jack was just insufferable.

Overall, I thought it was a cute read and I would recommend this for anyone who loves fairy tales, especially the tale of the 12 huntsmen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC!