The adventures of the Lizard Princess: how Lily the Silent's daughter grew to become the great queen, Sophia the Wise.
Readers won't need to have read Snotty Saves the Day or Lily the Silent, to love The Lizard Princess, the third novel in The History of Arcadia series, which features the compelling, wild and wisdom-making adventures of Lily's daughter, in her discovery of her True Self. . .how she becomes the great queen of Arcadia, Sophia the Wise. . . . .with the additions of an Arcadian scientific treatise, an afterword by Sophia's granddaughter Shanti, and the story of how the book came to Exterminating Angel Press.
With its winning female protagonist, accessible storyline, fantastical settings, Arthur Rackham-like illustrations, and powerful message-The Lizard Princess should inspire readers to (re)discover the first two books in the series and seek out more from the land of Arcadia, and from its next title, too .
The first two novels in The History of Arcadia series were embraced as crossover titles, prompting critics and booksellers to ask readers to "imagine Lewis Carroll with footnotes by Jonathan Swift" while others made comparisons to Nicholson Baker, the Spiderwick Chronicles, Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Homer, C.S. Lewis, the New Testament, Descartes, L. Frank Baum, Doris Lessing, and Joseph Campbell.
