As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she’ll meet Vizzini—the criminal philosopher who’ll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik—the gentle giant; Inigo—the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge; and Count Rugen—the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercup’s one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate.

Review:

Even richer than the movie, which was pretty rich. And I adored Inigo and Fezzik. How could you not? But I’m a reader who doesn’t enjoy Historical Fiction as a genre because I can’t always tell what’s the Historical and what’s the Fiction. (Drives me nuts). So, the fact that the author/narrator essentially eradicates the third wall, obscuring where the fiction and the author/narrator’s supposedly real-life commentary split drove me up batty. (Yes, I realize it’s essentially all fiction, but the effect is the same.) What’s more I found it disruptive and not as endearing as I believe I was supposed to. But man, what a story.