Empowering Love and Adventure in The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs

THE PRINCESS KNIGHT by Cait Jacobs.

The Princess Knight is a delightful romp through knight school, self-discovery, and falling in love after rejection. Clía enters knight school for all the wrong reasons, yet you can’t help rooting for her because the experience gives her a real chance to build confidence and learn who she is on her own terms. And who doesnt want to learn to be a badass with a Sword as well as a Needle & Thread.

One of the book’s greatest strengths is its romance. This isn’t a high-drama love story full of betrayals and explosive fallouts. Instead, it’s soft, sweet, and refreshingly pragmatic. The characters are aware of the wider stakes of the world around them, and their relationship reflects that level-headedness. It’s kind and gentle, a reminder that not all romances need to be fueled by chaos or fireworks to feel meaningful.

Clía herself is a standout: fierce and girly, a combination still too rarely embraced in fantasy, where heroines are often defined by being “not like other girls.” Fully taking inspo from its media influences, Elle Woods & even Cher Horowitz.

The love interest, Ronan, is equally thoughtfully written he lives with chronic pain, and the story treats this as a natural part of who he is rather than a plot device or lesson. and I love, a love interest that yearns. and boy does he !

While there’s still a long way to go in making fiction truly inclusive, novels like this matter. Disabled characters exist here as full people, not exceptions, and that representation feels both normal and welcome.

Overall, this is a fun, light-hearted, and warmly inclusive standalone. That said, it very much feels like a world being set up for more stories. The larger threat facing the world hasn’t been fully resolved and is only temporarily held at bay, which suggests room for future books, perhaps following other couples. If that’s the case, I’d be more than happy to return to this world.