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missbibliography 's review for:
The Ordinary Princess
by M.M. Kaye
As a child, I think I would have thoroughly enjoyed this book. The moral of the story - that beauty isn't what defines a person and that ordinary-ness can be happiness so long as you choose it - is one that I think everyone could benefit from learning. The fact that it is passed along in a story of princesses and princes and woods and little animal friends just makes it that much more fun.
That being said, I had a hard time enjoying the marriage aspects of the story, but it was written a while back, and written in a time when children were wed, so that was something I had to remind myself of. I also knew what was going to happen from basically the beginning, so reading it as me now, instead of younger me, was less enjoyable than it might've been. I don't know that this is a book I would want to read to kids, or recommend, necessarily, but it was fun and quick and light.
That being said, I had a hard time enjoying the marriage aspects of the story, but it was written a while back, and written in a time when children were wed, so that was something I had to remind myself of. I also knew what was going to happen from basically the beginning, so reading it as me now, instead of younger me, was less enjoyable than it might've been. I don't know that this is a book I would want to read to kids, or recommend, necessarily, but it was fun and quick and light.