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A review by leafblade
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
5.0
This was so good!!!!
Like, at the beginning I had a name problem because everyone was literally the same person to me, but once I got through that, oh god was this a good book.
The characters were amazing and so deep and human and real!!! I love political intrigue done well, and this book definitely has it. The boys are so young but their reaction to being picked to be the false Prince Jaron were so authentic, with Roden working extra hard and Tobias trying to kill Sage!!! I'm so glad the book didn't try to seel 14 year olds as full functioning adults, because they aren't!!! They sometimes think about their lost families, other times they struggle with manners because they were raised in orphanages, and other times they just want to ride the wildest mare because they're SO DAMN STUPID!!! BECAUSE WHEN YOU ARE 14 YOU ARE PROBABLY STUPID!!! AND THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL GROWING, EVEN IF YOU WENT THROUGH HARD TIMES IN YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!
And that plot twist tho don't even get me started on me because I didn't see it coming but it was the most intelligent thing for the author to do because yes we could've lived without that, but it made the story so much more interesting and it was completely believable!!!!
I loved this book and I think i will do something I hardly ever do: read the second book right after i finish the first one.
Like, at the beginning I had a name problem because everyone was literally the same person to me, but once I got through that, oh god was this a good book.
The characters were amazing and so deep and human and real!!! I love political intrigue done well, and this book definitely has it. The boys are so young but their reaction to being picked to be the false Prince Jaron were so authentic, with Roden working extra hard and Tobias trying to kill Sage!!! I'm so glad the book didn't try to seel 14 year olds as full functioning adults, because they aren't!!! They sometimes think about their lost families, other times they struggle with manners because they were raised in orphanages, and other times they just want to ride the wildest mare because they're SO DAMN STUPID!!! BECAUSE WHEN YOU ARE 14 YOU ARE PROBABLY STUPID!!! AND THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL GROWING, EVEN IF YOU WENT THROUGH HARD TIMES IN YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!
And that plot twist tho don't even get me started on me because I didn't see it coming but it was the most intelligent thing for the author to do because yes we could've lived without that, but it made the story so much more interesting and it was completely believable!!!!
I loved this book and I think i will do something I hardly ever do: read the second book right after i finish the first one.