Chronicles of the Misplaced Prince · #1
The Prince of Neither Here Nor There is the first book in The Chronicles of the Misplaced Prince series, set in a world where Faeries (1) exist.
With a pimply face and braces on his teeth, the perpetually clumsy Brendan is having a hard time at school. He’s got a few geeky friends and one really cool friend, Kim, who stands up for him when he starts to get bullied and pummeled in the ever popular school game of Murderball (2). When he starts hearing voices and conversing with chipmunks, he thinks he can add losing his mind to his growing list of problems. He soon discovers that the reason behind all of the strange voices and weird dreams he’s been having is that he is a Faerie who was lost in the human world.
Will he be forced to turn his back on his human parents and embrace his Faerie roots? Can he live in two worlds at once? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg (readers beware). In fact, the book’s narrator encourages readers to “freak out and run” on several occasions.
Brendan, The Prince of Neither Here Nor There, finds himself caught in a struggle between two worlds as he tries to figure out where he fits into both. During the course of the story he will face strange and unknown dangers, discover new and amazing powers, and meet friends and family he never new existed.
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(1) Faeries. Not Fairies. There is a big difference, and it isn’t just that one is spelled with an “e.” Fairies are ineffectual little things that flit about in children’s stories, shoot magic dust into people’s faces, and dress up in flower petals and all that hooey. The fearies we are dealing with here are something different all together. They are a noble race, and ancient race, often marvelous and magical but just as often deadly and dangerous.
(2) Murderball (also known as Dodgeball: before becoming the moderns pastime enjoyed (or dreaded) by students the world over, Murderball was devised as a means of executing criminals in the seventeenth-century Germany. Murderes were sentenced to be pelted with rubber balls until they were dead. However, the murderes became very adept at dodging the balls and so the modern sport of Murderball was born.
Seán Cullen (born 1965) is a Canadian comedian and author. He is known for combining improvisation with mimicry and music. Cullen has been described in Time as the "vanguard of comedy's next generation". He is best known for voicing Four, Five & Seven in Seven Little Monsters, which debuted on September 10, 2000 and ended in 2003.
