An enchantress is murdering Queen Kartek's soldiers and threatening her kingdom. Kartek's healing jewel has been lost. Her only hope of saving her kingdom seems to lie in the hands of the green-eyed stranger who claims he can save her jewel and her people...but the price is steep, and the young queen doesn't have much time. In this novella retelling of The Frog Prince, seventeen-year-old Queen Kartek has resigned herself to marrying the greatest warrior in the Megal Desert, but her true joy lies in sharing her healing powers with her people and meeting the everyday needs of her kingdom. When an enchantress attacks, however, her betrothed is murdered, and danger camps outside Hedjet's gates, Kartek's world is turned upside down. To make matters worse, her healing jewel falls into an abandoned well just when she needs it the most, and her only hope of retrieving the jewel lies in marrying a green-eyed stranger and making him king. In this retelling of The Frog Prince, Kartek must choose whether to trust that her new husband's intentions are as honorable as he promises, or to try and defeat the enchantress alone. For as much as she resents her new husband, she quickly realizes that there is more to this quiet man than meets the eye. He might just be the miracle her kingdom needs...and the balm she craves for her lonely heart. The Green-Eyed Prince is a novella set in the world of the Classical Kingdoms Collection, a series of clean fairy tale retellings full of sacrifice, true love, and the magic of happily ever afters.
This is your perfect rainy day novella, when you have nothing but time and want to just get away for a little while with not a care in the world. The story is a fast easy paced, that is hard to put down. I love when you're reading something by an author you've read before and in that story you can see just how much the authors writing has grown. You can honestly see the progress Fichter has made with each story she weaves through its pages.
It also helps that she intertwines many of the stories or gives you that little easter egg somewhere in the stories. But what I think I really appreciate is that each retelling is masterfully done so that you know it's an adaptation of its original story, in this case The Frog Prince. What I find that is also appealing is that each story is set or almost all are set with a different culture or lifestyle.
I did receive this as an ARC, this is my honest review.