Book Recommendation: Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess by Michelle Knudsen

Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess by Michelle Nudson continues everything that made the Cursed Princess Club series so special for me in the first place. It is funny, heartfelt, and quietly radical in the way it pushes back against the narrow ideas of beauty and femininity we are so used to seeing in fairy tales. This is a world where princesses do not need to be delicate, graceful, or conventionally pretty to be worthy of love or respect.

What I adore most about Cursed Princess Club is how affirming it feels without ever being preachy. It is a love letter to anyone who does not fit neatly into gender norms, and to anyone who has ever felt out of place for not meeting someone else’s expectations. The cursed princesses are not waiting to be fixed or transformed. They are building community, finding confidence, and redefining what happily ever after can look like on their own terms.

A Most Unusual Princess keeps that same energy while deepening the emotional stakes and letting the characters grow in ways that feel both gentle and empowering, this time through prose. If you are drawn to novels that balance humor with real heart, or fairy tales that challenge the stories we were told growing up, this is absolutely one to check out. If you loved the Lambcat’s Cursed Princess Club, this one deserves a spot on your TBR immediately.

Cursed Princess Club Novel 1: A Most Unusual Princess

by Michelle Knudsen
Published by: Wattpad Books
on November 25, 2025
Genres: Fantasy, Retellings, Young Adult
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For fans of Lambcat’s enchanting WEBTOON comes a novel adaptation of the hit WEBTOON series in the vein of Serena Valentino’s Disney Villains series or the Mariko Tamaki’s Lumberjanes novelization. Explore the world of the Cursed Princess Club.

The beloved world of the Cursed Princesses makes the leap from comics to fiction in this new series of novel adaptations based on the hit graphic novels.

Gwendolyn is living the fairy-tale life. She’s a princess. She lives in a castle with her father the king and her loving siblings. Everything is perfect. Or it was.
One day, Gwen overhears a visiting prince commenting on her appearance in the harshest of terms and her world is upended. She’s always known she didn’t look like your typical princess, but her family thinks she’s beautiful. No one has ever been so mean.

Devastated, Gwen runs into the Haunted Forest and there she meets the Cursed Princesses, a group of outcasts and misfits who band together to show Gwen that she really is a princess.

Based on the hit WEBTOON and adapted by best-selling author Michelle Knudsen, these novels will take readers deep into the world of the Cursed Princess Club.