This was a good quick fantasy read. Interesting story enjoyed the dragon aspect. I did have to try to get into it a few times but once I did I was hooked and needed to know what happened.

This book sounded so very interesting a had lot of potential but the writing is just not for me, I just did not very dynamic or atmospheric and that let it down a lot for me.

*I recieved this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

This was such a quick and cute read, featuring a princess who turns into at the age of 16 begins to turn innot Dragon at everynight and 2 years later at 18 has to travel to break the ice kingdom to get the curse broken by a witch! She equips the help of Adie to go with her on this journey to chain her up everynight and be her compainion and quard more of less! I liked reading about both of these as it brings the book into the lgbt category when the two begin to develop feelings more than friendship which is nice to see in a high fantasy book!

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I got every excited that this was a book about a princess that turns to a dragon from nightfall until day break because of the curse of a witch. When she discovers a way to break the curse. It involves going on a quest with her loyalest female guard who does not want to fight anymore, but seems to be developing feeling for Mellie. I enjoyed it and would like to read other things by this author.

This book need much more work. The premise was interesting and I really would love to see more F/F romances but the execution was awkward and the characters and world-building left a lot to be desired.

I received an ARC copy from netgalley for my honest review, so thank you netgalley and publishers for offering me this book! ♡
The day Princess Mellie turns sixteen, her parents reveal she was cursed as a baby and will spend the rest of her nights as a dragon. Two years later, she discovers a chance to break the curse, but it will take a quest with only her chosen bodyguard, a brave female warrior who has lost her lust for fighting but has developed an attraction for the princess.

The cover and title is what originally drew me to this book.
This is my first book by this author. It was alltogether an easy read. ♡ I give this book a
1 star rating!

Thanks to Netgalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I couldn't get through this book at all. I got to about halfway through the prologue before I put it down. Although the description had me intrigued, the writing was something to be desired. It was a tell you rather then show you type of book. Rather then show you how much the queen had loved the king, we were told that she was.
After some quick research on here, I realized that this is Lizzie Colt's first book and I hope as she gets more confident in her writing she will grow into a beautiful writer. She does have potential.

This was such a quick and short read. I would have loved to seen this book develop more than the story further than the 60 pages allow. The romance was a bit under-developed but it was still cute. If there was a sequel, i would pick it up as there needs to be more than this story allows so far.

The characterization of the two main characters can feel naive and overwrought at times, and the overall message of the novella ends up feeling a bit forced and afterschool special/preachy. However, Mellie's love for Adie and their devotion to each other despite challenges is very sweet and likely to pluck the heartstrings of many young readers.

This had a lot of potential, but unfortunately I think the length worked against it. I really wish it had been fleshed out and expanded because it had a neat premise, and the relationship could have been compelling if less instalovey.

Short and sweet. This fast paced with just enough story, fantasy and romance to make both heroines likeable and their quest interesting. Throw in a curse much like the swan princess and we have a winner.

I wish the author had somehow made the book / story longer hence i took off a star.

I was sent the E-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was so intrigued by the premise of this book. Which, in retrospect, I would call this a novela more than a novel.
We follow Millie, a princess of the Silver Kingdom, who has been cursed by a Winter witch. The curse transforms Millie from a regular human to an ice dragon when the sun sets and begins on her 16th birthday. Due to the curse, her parents reach out to their allies and ask for the help of Adie, a trained warrior, to protect Millie on a journey to find the Winter witch and break the curse.

I loved the fact that we have a f/f romance set in a fantastical setting.

However, because of how short this was, everything was incredibly fast paced. The plot moved quickly, but we didn’t get a chance to enjoy the atmosphere as the world building was hardly there. The characters are what was disappointing the most. They had great potential to be powerful, empowered, and independent. Because the story moved so fast, I didn’t have the ability to truly connect with them and that made it very difficult to truly appreciate their budding and eventual romance.

The world and the characters needed more substance. They were too two-dimensional which, ultimately, is what makes this just an okay read.

This was an ok story but it fell very rushed and underdeveloped. I didn’t like that we had point of views from so many different characters. The premised the story was interesting, like an old fairy tale. I also like the queer representation. But overall I was left underwhelmed.

The Winter Witch put a curse on Princess Mellie when she was a baby. The curse turns her into a winter dragon every night at sundown until the next morning at day break. The curse begins when the Princess turns sixteen. Her parents are determined to save their daughter from being killed by people who hate dragons. There is only one hope for the Princess to have a normal life and that is to travel to the Winter Kingdom to have the witch remove the curse. Princess Mellie chooses Adie, a warrior from a nearby kingdom who she first met at her sixteenth birthday party, to be her bodyguard and accompany her to the witch’s kingdom. When they arrive at the witch’s castle, the Princess finally understands why the curse has been put on her. As Adie and the Princess travel across the frozen lands to the Winter Kingdom, they find there is a growing attraction to one another.

This is a wonderful tale meant for YA readers. It subtly talks about being physically different—Addie has a disfigurement and Mellie is a dragon at night. It talks about being attracted to people of the same gender, about being fearful of losing a family because of that attraction, of what it means to be a parent of “different” children. All these discussions are seamlessly interwoven into the story and don’t come off as being preachy. The writing is age appropriate.

Readers who normally read fantasy and pick this book up will undoubtedly be disappointed because of it shortness and because the fantasy isn’t fantastical enough, although many of the fantasies necessary to most works of fantasy are here, just not in the volume found in longer works. The publisher tells us this is a short work, 21,000 words, and anyone not liking the length shouldn’t pick it up.

If the reader is reading this book for reasons other than it is a fantasy and/or because it is a fantasy for teens, they won’t be disappointed. The author sticks to the issues and doesn’t go off on tangents.

Yes, there are some gaffes that an editor should have caught like using today’s expressions. However, they are not necessarily off-putting.

While Tale of a Dragon Princess reads more like a story from an anthology, it was still a cute quick read.

If you're in a reading slump or just in the mood for a short fantasy with dragons and princesses and sapphic girls then I recommend this book. 💕

With some more world building and fleshing out the characters a bit more, this story could easily have the potential to be a great high fantasy series. It currently feels more middle grade than young adult.

<i> I was provided an eARC by NetGalley and the publisher NineStar Press for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.<i>

This was a story about a princess named Mellie who is cursed at birth to turn into an ice dragon at every sunset until sunrise upon her 16th birthday. Once the curse sets in, she seeks out to find the witch who cursed her with an ally from a nearby kingdom named Adie. During the journey, they fall in love with each other and discover that the witch had not cursed her out of spite, but made her into a dragon who's ice breath was the only thing that could put out the eternal fire that would destroy Mellie's kingdom when the witch looked to the future. So the witch modified her curse so Mellie could turn at will, Mellie then saved her kingdom and came out to her parents about being gay.

I really appreciated that the author introduced issues such as the LGBTQ community and physical disfiguration. She herself is a person with these qualities but doesn't let it interfere with her passion for writing.

While I enjoyed the plot, this novel was way too short for it to have told the story completely and it was *too perfect* - meaning: 1) when they discovered the witch cursing their daughter, they didn't get mad as you'd expect but instead were calm and collected which definitely is not realistic; 2) Mellie was the "perfect" child with no flaws. She herself didn't get mad when she discovered she was cursed and accepted it with no argument. I mean she turns into a dragon so shouldn't she have some form of aggression or temper at least?; 3) Mellie didn't struggle with being gay or about coming out to Adie - this is where the author should have spent a lot of time on as it's a big issue today that many struggle with; 4) the big battle with the eternal fire was so minor it's not even worth imagining; 5) Adie's internal battle with her disfigurement was a an obstacle she had to overcome but by the end i don't think she really did overcome it.

I couldn't relate to any of the characters both major or minor as they were all too perfect and no human being is. It was just unrealistic how they were written and because of that, each and every single character had no development whatsoever. I did really like that the dragon was a small and dainty one - definitely reflecting how Mellie is. I just couldn't really enjoy it because there was so much more that could have been done and the depth just wasn't there. There are so many questions that are unanswered - who is the villain and why did he want to burn the kingdom? Why is Adie's kingdom familiar and completely comfortable with LGBTQ and yet Mellie has very little inkling of it? What sort of kingdom is Adie's that focuses on training its women along with men but Mellie's one has none at all? Who exactly is the witch and why does she have powers - is she a god? Was their journey to see the witch so easy that there really was NO obstacle including other travelers who could have encountered Mellie in dragon form? How was Adie disfigured?

My list goes on and on but I think you get the gist of why I gave this book only one star. The plot was a great idea but the development was absent.

I think I went into this story expecting something different. It is marked as a novelette, so I should have known it was short beforehand. It still surprised me a bit.

What I liked about this story is the diversity. It featured a f/f romance, one half of which was a woman of colour and suffered from a disability. Overall it's a nice little fairytale about a cursed princess, who transforms into a dragon at night and sets out to save herself from that curse. The story itself is intriguing enough, but the execution sadly didn't work for me.

Since the story was so short, I felt like everything was very rushed. Two chapters were filled with introduction that could have dealt with in a quicker manner so that there would be more space for adventures on her quest to save herself. There wasn't space though and that meant there weren't really adventures. The romance also came quite out of nowhere and the resolution to the conflict came quick and easy.

I would say this could be a nice read for much younger readers than me, maybe middle-grade, who just wanna read something quick and easy without much drama or excitement. The diversity is great, everything else was sadly lacking in my opinion and couldn't convince me.

Tale of a Dragon Princess sounded like an exciting book with an f/f romance, lesbian princess who is cursed, and bisexual warrior. It had a really exciting and grabbing premise and with sapphics on top of that? Exciting! But the execution wasn't the best. 

The world was quite... bland. There wasn't any world building, and what there was felt very generic. It could've used the world to its advantage, it could've used magic more, it could've use the setting more since you don't see snow too much in fantasy (at least what I've read), but it really wasn't. It wasn't too long to begin with, it was only 20k words. Short books can sometimes be detrimental to a book. Some stories work contained in a novelette like this, but the length was a huge problem for the book. There wasn't too much time for the romance or the characters to develop, and it was mostly contained to one setting. This made the book dull, and the characters suffered from that.

I did think there were some positives though. I liked the discussion around the trauma Mellie was going through, and I did enjoy that there was some talk in how she's a lesbian who is in a position where she feels she has to marry a man, but she's not met with any homophobia either. Adie is also from a kingdom where queerness is normal. I loved that aspect. Their romance is something I'd describe as 'sweet' but it was insta-love. And I feel that's because of the short length. There was no time to develop it fully, so that was used instead which was kind of annoying.

I wouldn't say this book was bad, it was just dull and forgettable.

Than you to Ninestar Press for the arc of this book, I actually enjoyed this short story, makes a nice change to have a sickly sweet ending, I would have liked for this to have been a little longer, for it to have been a bit more in-depth, but it was a light read and I enjoyed it.

I received this story as an ARC courtesy of Net Galley and Sun Fire Press! ( a budding YA publishing company of Nine Star press!)
Tale of a Dragon Princess is a quick ( I mean i read this in an hoiur and a half!) read that was a wonderfully fantastical tale reminicent of Sleeping Beauty meets how to train your dragon! the setting was magical, ( Along with the actual magic!) the characters were relatable and loveable and I loved the portrayal of someone with a disability as a strong and capable character! The romance was slow burning and sweet and I loved every second of it! and Last but not least DRAGONS!!! Well, just one really but still my Favorite part! Great Job Lizzie Colt!!