For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI thoroughly enjoyed this book. Such a fantastic read.When I first started the book, it took me a little while to get into the story. Once quarry-speak was introduced, I was instantly hooked, driven by the same curiosity that ensnared Miri. The whole i...
This is the type of excellent children's publishing that I craved as a preteen/young teen. It reads sort of like a middle grade, more accessible to younger readers than a lot of the YA MA books these days. This wasn't at all what I was expecting from the title and cover; I thought it would be fluf...
This might sound weird, but I have to admit that what attracted me to this book in the first place was that almost every major character was a girl. (Oddly enough, the bad guys are all male, but that is totally beside the point--I do NOT mean to give the impression that this is a girls vs. guys thin...
This is a book I both really enjoyed and find myself completely uninterested in reading the sequel. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening, but I left with the impression that the lowlanders really were a bunch of [redacted] [redacted] heads, so Miri's next adventure being set in their world s...
You know the weird thing is while reading this book, how much it reminded me of the book The Selection (my review of that book is here). Both feature girls being gathered from the kingdom to find someone to marry the prince. They get along with some girls, and not with others. She has a boy back ...
When the priests declare that the prince's future wife will come from Miri's remote village in the mountains, all the eligible girls must learn how to be a princess at an academy that is created for them. With the harsh rules of the academy and the fierce competition between the girls, life there ce...
A heartwarming story about a group of girls in a village being trained to be princesses. Well one of them will be a princess. At first the training would appear to be trivial but then Miri finds that in fact these lessons could help the people in her village. It's a village where they quarry ston...
Princess Academy is just plain beautiful writing. The tone was bittersweet and slightly formal, which I loved. At the same time, it felt very much like a young girl narrating. I can see why this was a Newbery Honor book. I really don't know how she managed to do that. The descriptions of the cha...
This book really reminded me of books I read when I was younger, princess books are usually a great treat and this was no exception! Miri is a cute girl just a smidge smaller than her fellow village children and believes that is why she can't work the quarry with her sister Marda. Soon a kings messe...
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