Ideal for fans of Jennifer Donnelly's Stepsister. -Booklist Damsel meets A Heart in a Body in the World in this incisive and lyrical feminist fairy tale about a princess determined to save her sisters from a curse; even if it means allying herself with the very witch who cast it. The Princesses of Ever are beloved by the kingdom and their father; the King. They are cherished; admired. Cursed. Jane; Alice; Nora; Grace; and Eden carry the burden of being punished for a crime they did not commit; or even know about. They are each cursed to be Without one essential thing-the ability to eat; sleep; love; remember; or hope. And their mother; the Queen; is imprisoned; frozen in time in an unbreakable glass box. But when Eden's curse sets in on her thirteenth birthday; the princesses are given the opportunity to break the curse; preventing it from becoming a True Spell and dooming the princesses for life. To do this; they must confront the one who cast the spell-Reagan; a young witch who might not be the villain they thought-as well as the wickedness plaguing their own kingdom...and family. Told through the eyes of Reagan and Jane-the witch and the bewitched-this insightful twist of a fairy tale explores power in a patriarchal kingdom not unlike our own.