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| The Twelve Dancing Princesses | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy Madore
Publisher: Spice
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 137622
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0373605161
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373605163
ASIN: 0373605161
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
Twelve princesses, each possessing riches, grace, power and dignity. Yet despite the sisters' charmed lives—and despite the handsome men who desire them—they are woefully unfulfilled, frustrated and aching for something more. As a powerful wizardess helps to solve the riddle of their discontent, each princess discovers creative— and naughty—ways to satisfy her passionate cravings and desperate needs.
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 Grimm was never this much fun January 24, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This set of interconnected short stories is based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, where a king offers a reward for anyone who can tell him how his daughters' shoes get thoroughly trashed every night without their apparent knowledge.
The king in this story has twelve daughters, so you can imagine the size of the daily bills from Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo, and you can also imagine his haste in getting to the bottom of the matter. To make it more puzzling, all the daughters were married, so the original fairy tale solution just didn't cut it anymore.
To make sure that only serious enquiries were entertained, the king pronounced a death penalty for failure, so after a while nobody was volunteering to solve the case of the un-soled shoes.
Since the men weren't up to the task, along came a "wizardess" with quite a few tricks in her bag and up her sleeves, and after convincing the king that she was the one, she set to work visiting each Princess and royal spouse at their respective homes.
Now these are erotic short stories, so you will realize that the key to the shoe thing lies in the intimate relationships between each Princess and her husband. The author skillfully uses each short story to focus on a different problem that can cause conjugal strife, and offers words of advice on how to solve them.
And now for the good stuff.....
Each story involves the "wizardess" prescribing cures for the problem at hand, including golden eels, magic rings, paintbrushes, masks, a special chastity belt that takes a lot more than a word to "open sesame", magic bubbles and even a fairy tale apple.
Hot and steamy, but never offensive or crude, these sizzling stories would make the Brothers Grimm squirm in their ledenhosen.
Amanda Richards, January 24, 2008
 Overrated and boring January 28, 2008
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I love a good erotic romance novel, and I thought this one would be fun, as it is billed as an erotic fairy tale. Also, it had wonderful reviews. The problem is that I found it utterly boring and pointless. "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" combines the negative qualities of both a diconnected romance novel and a boring erotic novel. A book like this has to have either wonderfully written characters, or hot scenes, and this one has neither. Each chapter is about one of the princesses, whose sexual problem is described, in shorthand (and laughably) by her name. Devotia, for instance, is very religious and thinks what her husband wants her to do is too sinful. All of the characters are crudely drawn -- the men almost interchangable -- and you only get a small chapter with each couple, so you don't care about any of them. Also, the sex scenes are pedestrian, wordy, overly psychological and boring. Skip this one and get a good romance novel instead.
So intelligent~ December 23, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved this book not only for the good writing and the way the eroticism was an essential part of the story, but for how clever the wizardess was in providing cures for what ailed each princess's marriage. I suspect reading it could do a marriage troubled by sexual disharmony a lot of good.
charming adult version of the classic fairy tale September 12, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
To an observer the charming affluent twelve princesses seem to live perfect lives. Yet each of the dozen is discontented as if something is missing. They do not lack for power or loving caring husbands who covet them; yet they remain sad and depressed, but no one including the princesses knows why.
Desperate to find out why they are so despondent, a wizardess is brought to them to try to help the pretty princesses unravel what is the cause of their discontent. Soon each begins to understand their lack of self esteem as they fear telling their beloved their deepest needs. Encouraged to search for ways to satiate their passion for sexual intimacy, they begin to find contentment with their loving spouses.
Besides readers, Bullwinkle, Rocky and friends (think Fractured Fairy Tales) and The Brothers Grimm would be pleased with this charming adult version of the classic fairy tale. The fast-paced story line stars the pampered popular princesses who have major self esteem issues that leave them feeling unworthy of the sexy spouses who cherish and love them. Fans who appreciate something different in their romantic fantasy should try Nancy Madore, whose bewitching take on fairy tales (see ENCHANTED - EROTIC BEDTIME STORIES FOR WOMEN) proves she has the magic wand.
Harriet Klausner
Not MERELY hot March 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really loved this book. Not only are the stories quite sexy, the plots are extremely clever and thought-provoking. Definitely a keeper!
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