Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede

It's an odd feeling to be reading a book and about 50 pages in, realize that I've read it before. I remember a time in my life when the idea that I could read so many books that I would lose track was unfathomable. Just couldn't happen. These days it seems to happen all the time.

Dealing with Dragons is delightful. When I was a kid, most of the fantasy novels played off of traditional archetypes based on fairytales. Girls got kidnapped, lost in the woods, etc. and needed rescuing. It gets old. Wrede's books poke fun at all that. I love Cimorene who's a princess so desperate to get out of the fairy tale expectations that she volunteers to be a Dragon's princess. She then runs off every prince who comes to rescue her.

Like I said, fun. I can't believe I forgot the book. I'm glad there are three more to read in the series.