Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

A witch puts Princess Floralinda in a forty-story tower. Every story has a different awful creature to kill. The witch planned that only a brave prince could rescue her. But when many princes try and fail to reach the top of the tower, Princess Floralinda puts her own rescue plan into action.

This was a fun read. Love the snark!

 My first foray into audiobooks; I'm glad it was this novella.

This was highly entertaining. A clever retelling of the maiden in the tower style fairy tale, this time the witch made the monsters in the tower too powerful for the rescuing knights, so our maiden, Princess Floralinda, is forced to become her own rescuer. A clever tale of female empowerment, a strong female lead and wonderfully wry sense of humour make this a really fun novella, twisting tropes in a clever and entertaining way.

I wish I could give this book 6 stars! Wonderful story, funny as hell, it kept surprising me right until the end! Bonus points for Cobweb being utterly uninterested in picking a gender

Well that was a big laugh.

3½ stars for cleverness despite the redundancy.

I really liked this little novella for its take on traitional fairy tales and its reversal of expectations/roles. The princess saves herself instead of waiting around helplessly, which is a nice change of pace. I was a bit on the fence about the random scenes of violence and gore, but I see how they were used to shape (and harden) Floralinda. Cobweb was a cute yet fiesty companion throughout and, even though I'm not too sure about the 'romance' between the two, they did make a formidable pair when faced with all manners of creatures, mythological and otherwise.

I feel that the narrative was repetive in places, and the use of the same ‘trick' to slay the beasts over and over again lacked excitement. The fights could have been more interesting if Floralinda had used different ways for defeating the creatures, but the parade of beasts on each floor was fun to read about, nevertheless. I'm also not so sure about the conclusion; I expected Floralinda to go on her way as a changed woman, not remain in the tower that had kept her prisonner for so long. In a way, it's as though she can never leave her captivity even though she changed tremendously.

Overall, this was a fun, subversive read!

this was badass - absolutely adored this, so happy I took a chance and purchased a physical copy from the limited print run

This is a short and fun book. It's like if Piranesi were a dungeon fighter LitRPG with fairytale monsters. Does that make any sense?

My first foray into Muir, will definitely check out Gideon soon, after hearing nothing but praise for that series.