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Princeless: Save Yourself
by Jeremy Whitley
This series had been recommended at Book Riot Live as a great book to give kids as a part of advancing We Need Diverse Books. I'd had an eye out for it ever since, looking for it at book stores but never finding it. I finally got around to putting it on my hold list at the library.
Adrienne is a fun, fierce protagonist, even if she sometimes feels like a paper doll made of "rah, rah, girl power!" But I like her relationship with her dragon, and when she meets Bedelia, the blacksmith's daughter, there is a fantastic bit about women's armor. It's almost too much that Adrienne's brother is weak and weepy, but since it's mentioned that this is a change that has come on in the last month, I'm sure there will be a story behind it in time.
When I remind myself both that this is a book intended for middle-grade readers and that this first volume has a lot of world building and character establishment to do, I'm pretty happy with it. I also find it interesting that while the ruling family is black, the only acknowledgement of racism in the book world is some anti-dwarf sentiment. I'm hoping he goes somewhere interesting with that.
Promising enough that I bought a copy for Jefferson's classroom for my We Need Diverse Books challenge. And bought volumes 2&3 for Jefferson.
Adrienne is a fun, fierce protagonist, even if she sometimes feels like a paper doll made of "rah, rah, girl power!" But I like her relationship with her dragon, and when she meets Bedelia, the blacksmith's daughter, there is a fantastic bit about women's armor. It's almost too much that Adrienne's brother is weak and weepy, but since it's mentioned that this is a change that has come on in the last month, I'm sure there will be a story behind it in time.
When I remind myself both that this is a book intended for middle-grade readers and that this first volume has a lot of world building and character establishment to do, I'm pretty happy with it. I also find it interesting that while the ruling family is black, the only acknowledgement of racism in the book world is some anti-dwarf sentiment. I'm hoping he goes somewhere interesting with that.
Promising enough that I bought a copy for Jefferson's classroom for my We Need Diverse Books challenge. And bought volumes 2&3 for Jefferson.