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janinevh 's review for:
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—without the Fairy-Tale Endings
by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
2.5 stars.
This book was very hit and miss for me. There were some really interesting stories and I thought it was great that the women came from all sorts of time periods. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the expectations of the time, and the Princesses who fought against them. Unfortunately, at some points I found myself overwhelmed with proper nouns! Some of the stories felt like a long list of places and people, the place they were born, the location of the person they married, the wars their family were involved in, where they moved to, and then all the names and titles of their relatives. I understand the need to place them in context, but with so many stories and each one being so short, I found it hard to keep track. I found myself flicking back to double check names far too often! Also because of this, some of the stories lacked depth.
This book was very hit and miss for me. There were some really interesting stories and I thought it was great that the women came from all sorts of time periods. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the expectations of the time, and the Princesses who fought against them. Unfortunately, at some points I found myself overwhelmed with proper nouns! Some of the stories felt like a long list of places and people, the place they were born, the location of the person they married, the wars their family were involved in, where they moved to, and then all the names and titles of their relatives. I understand the need to place them in context, but with so many stories and each one being so short, I found it hard to keep track. I found myself flicking back to double check names far too often! Also because of this, some of the stories lacked depth.