“No one writes like Paul Park, and when he turns to magic, the results are magical. A Princess of Roumania is weirder and wilder than any fantasy you’ve read before and even those elements which might have been familiar — a princess, a werewolf, a jewel, a gypsy, magic and murder — are transformed into strangeness. Park’s characters, incidents, and images will stay with you long after you’ve finished this book.” —Karen Joy Fowler

“A Princess of Roumania is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art, and immediately appealing in all the ways that the heart-tugging matter of high fantasy ought to be. Park’s Miranda is as brave and questing as a heroine of fantasy should be, and his Baroness Ceaucescu is a fascinating portrait of unstoppable evil that is never more or less than appallingly — even appealingly — human. Every page of this book holds something you couldn’t have imagined and yet that strikes you as supremely right and satisfying. A huge achievement.” —John Crowley

“Complex, elusive, haunting, written in a transparent prose that slips you from one world to another with…ease” —Ursula Le Guin

“I love it! I think it’s wonderful.” —Elizabeth Hand

“A superb new fantasy, the first in what I hope will be many books in a series.” —Ed Greenwood