THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER SPOILER FREE REVIEW

 


Another sweet graphic novel you need to read!

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang is a YA historical fiction graphic novel about a young girl named Frances who lives in France at the time it was still a kingdom. She is a seamstress working in a clothing and tailor store. By surprise, she gets hired to make clothes for the prince of the country, Prince Sebastien. As she gets to know him, he has a secret: sometimes he likes to wear dresses and look like a girl. But he doesn't want anyone else to know about it because it might ruin his reputation as a future husband and king. Throughout the course of the story, Frances and Sebastien deepen their friendship and try to achieve their individual goals of becoming a famous dressmaker and gaining the confidence to show their gender-nonconformity in public, mostly through sneaking off to parties. and such.

This was such a cute book! The artwork was gorgeous, the characters were great. I might be a little bit biased because I just really love historical fiction. 

This is considered an LGBT book due to Sebastien's gender nonconformity. He is never outright stated to be nonbinary or whatever, but I consider him genderfluid. So I recommend this if you want a genderfluid main character! 

I gave it 4.5 stars. I had to take half a point off for one scene where an older man hits on the main characters while he's drunk, and another point for Sebastien drinking while he is underage. I don't condone underage drinking, and luckily the creepy drunk guy is punished. But other than that, this is a great book!

Got any other historical fiction recommendations?

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