Princess Academy -- Shannon Hale
I pretty much adore Shannon Hale, and I haven't ever read Enna Burning yet. I don't know why I keep putting it off. Maybe because then I'll have read it and I won't be able to look forward to it anymore. (Come on. That totally makes sense.) So rather than read the sequel to The Goose Girl, I read Princess Academy.
It had everything. A poor village, an ultimatum from the King, an extremely likable heroine, a love interest, a school setting with a beastly teacher and a nice handyman/cook, horrible bandits with names like Dogface and selective telepathy. Each chapter started with a snippet from one of the village's quarrying songs:
My toes are colder than my feet
My feet are colder than my ribs
My ribs are colder than my breath
My breath is colder than my lips
And my lips are purple and blue, purple and blue
It was wonderful. The love interest storyline was believable and thrilling, and Miri's conflicting feelings about Peder and the unknown prince were also very, very well done. Grown-ups take notice -- not only was Peder dreamy... so was Miri's father. He reminded me of Elizabeth Peters' Radcliffe Emerson. Swoon-eriffic.
I might break down and finally read Enna Burning this week.
I love the quarry songs at the beginning of each chapter. I felt like the plot was a little contrived, but other than that I quite liked it. Haven't read Goose Girl, but I'm guessing I should.
Posted by: jess | 14 February 2006 at 12:55 PM
I saw where the plot was going pretty early on -- I was almost positive about who would be picked, etc. (though not for the reasons given), but that didn't really bother me. I enjoy her so much.
Goose Girl is wonderful, even though there's a horse in it. (I generally don't do horse books. Except The Blue Sword. That's different.)
Posted by: Leila | 14 February 2006 at 01:22 PM
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Posted by: POOOOOOOOOOOOP | 23 January 2007 at 05:52 PM
this book wa great although i hate the fact that britta was chosen to be princess other than miri
Posted by: | 25 February 2008 at 10:01 PM
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Posted by: | 25 February 2008 at 10:02 PM
i love the ending every thing is sso happy
Posted by: | 11 March 2008 at 09:40 PM
luv this book
Posted by: | 01 September 2008 at 02:18 PM