Some girls grow up fast. Especially princesses. One day, Lylene was a bridesmaid, all dressed up for her older sister's wedding, to a neighboring prince.
A week later, Lylene was a wizard's apprentice, determined to gain the power to rescue her sister from the armed knights who had kidnapped her at the altar. The wizard gave Lylene the power to conjure a 'fetch', a temporary copy of anything - a sword, a horse, even a person.
And now Lylene is on the road to revenge, armed with nothing but her new magical power, and a couple of outlaw companions. Handsome outlaws, to be sure. But outlaws nonetheless.

So it's childish silliness. I still adored it. I'm quite annoyed that the author allowed her character to clone a human being four times without giving a mention to the unbelievable philosophical problems that that would cause - the girl is 16 to be sure, but her friends are adults and they should have known better. And I really don't believe that her name is Vivian Vande Velde.

Picked up at the BC meetup and is now sitting on my TBR shelf :)

Enjoyable young adult fantasy. Pity the princesses are named Lylene and Beryl, they sound like they've just walked out of a trailer park, but apart from that I found the story very readable and refreshingly lacking in cliche.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left in phonebox by the community centre.