Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess is the true story of Jerramy (she’s a girl) Fine’s lifelong obsession with becoming a princess. If this book were just royal -watching and Diana-worshipping (and it is some of that) it would be too insipid to read. But Fine is smart and has more than a wannabe’s devotion to the Crown. Born to hippie parents (her mother encourages her to experiment with drugs but “please don’t start drinking” and her father is the only who can sufficiently empathize at Diana’s death because he “felt the same way when Hendrix died”), Fine feels out of place her entire life. She knows that she was not meant to be in this family or the small Colorado town where she was raised. This deep self-knowledge takes on a wacky paranormal edge when Fine tells her mother, at age 2, that “you are not the woman who dresses me” or when she sees a “channeler” in London who perfectly describes her predicament (NOT married to royalty and longing for it with all her heart) as one born of unfinished business in a past life as member of the Court. This all sounds wackadoo and it mostly is, but Fine’s voice is definite and sure, funny and intuitive. I read it in a day and was thankful for the diversion.
p.s. this cover is HORRIBLE. WHY must publishers use women’s BODY PART to promote their books?!?! This book is NOT about a CORPSE. The copy I picked up had a delightful cartoon of Fine lolling about the English countryside, all body part intact.
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