Subverted in that later on a real-life character says the group destroyed any chance of their being taken seriously once they nearly killed Giannine by accidentally destroying the fail safes in their rampage of destruction.

Knight Templar: The angry Christian mob that destroyed the device.Holodeck Malfunction: Done by outside forces, causing the game to malfunction and begin to cook Giannine's brain.Groundhog Day Loop: Justified, because Janie has to start over every time she dies.He even says that it's his motivation for starting the company to make a name for himself. In the designers defense, the failsafes only failed due to an angry mob of overzealous moral guardians smashing the device to hell and back. Failsafe Failure: What traps her in the game.Estrogen Brigade Bait: Part of the reason Giannine chooses to play Heir Apparent is because she found the male characters attractive.Dumb Muscle: Abas, the second oldest of the queen's sons.

Jehan, just can't seem to get on anybody's good side, no matter how hard she tries.

Dude, Where's My Respect?: Giannine, as Janine of St.

The company owner even says that picking him is almost always a bad choice.

Draco in Leather Pants: In-universe example with Kenric, who, despite his appearance, ends up being the most helpful brother.

Normally there are fail-safes, but the protesters smashed them up.

Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Being hooked up to VR for too long can fry your brain.

Author Avatar: Within the book, Kenric is based on the head of the Rasmussen corporation.

It's programmed so if the player/players start crying or showing signs of hating the game, at least one game character will go OOC and tell what you need to do to win the game.

Anti-Frustration Features How Giannine wins the game.

There’s enough light humor throughout to keep readers hooked. Baker’s The Frog Princess, and while the cast is fairly one-dimensional, Imogene’s misadventures as an amphibian are entertaining. Too kind to use that sort of deceit on someone else, Imogene searches for another solution, tracking down the none-too-sympathetic witch who cast the original spell, getting captured by a boy-crazy runaway named Luella and her know-it-all actor boyfriend (who use Imogene as a gimmick to attract an audience for their theater troupe’s lousy plays), and trying to find a way home. He returns to his human form, but she is transformed into a frog as a result worse, he was just the lowly son of a wagon maker. The real trouble begins when a (rather pushy) frog, who tells Imogene he’s a prince beset by a witch’s spell, tricks her into kissing him. Vande Velde previously reworked classic fairy tales in The Rumpelstiltskin Problem and Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, and she now turns to the “The Frog Prince.” Princess Imogene, who is 12 and “gawky,” is tired of falling short in her family’s eyes.

Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde