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amberl3af 's review for:
The Princess Trials
by Cordelia Castel
DID NOT FINISH: 65%
Unfortunately, I found myself marking a DNF. The main question I had with it was “why?” There was no real answer to the questions I had. Everyone seemed to do things for no reason, with no motives and had no real plot outcomes. There was no way to justify most of the characters actions, and it felt forced to get the plot moving. It was very messy and awkwardly paced. I struggled to follow it, and everything seemed to blur into one thing. They could be mourning someone and suddenly they’re ballroom dancing, and now they’re at a garden party and now they’re being interviewed. I couldn’t follow any of it.
Calling this ”Hunger Games X Selection” is an insult to those authors. I haven’t read The Selection, but though there were similarities between Princess Trials and Hunger Games, the Echleons are much sloppier, undefined versions of the Districts, and while in the Hunger Games, the 16 teens were forced to fight to the death, in the Princess Trials, they all signed up for the inhumane treatment!
The “not like the other girls” energy the main character gave off really annoyed me. It seemed that everyone in the entire bloody country wanted to marry the prince, and our main character, Corn-Corn Corn (that literally is the translation of her name) was the only one who didn’t care for him: at one point, everyone in the room except for Corn squealed at the mention of him, which really annoyed me. The author couldn’t’ve put even the slightest bit of personality into them?
Another thing is that the names are a mess. The main character was called Zea-Mays Calico, which means Corn-Corn Corn. There are some pretty fantasy names like Forelle and Lady Circi, but there’s also Berta and Kevon.
To conclude, this book was a sloppy, confusing mess of a read, with the worst cliches and awkward pacing. A shame, because I enjoyed the first part!
Calling this ”Hunger Games X Selection” is an insult to those authors. I haven’t read The Selection, but though there were similarities between Princess Trials and Hunger Games, the Echleons are much sloppier, undefined versions of the Districts, and while in the Hunger Games, the 16 teens were forced to fight to the death, in the Princess Trials, they all signed up for the inhumane treatment!
The “not like the other girls” energy the main character gave off really annoyed me. It seemed that everyone in the entire bloody country wanted to marry the prince, and our main character, Corn-Corn Corn (that literally is the translation of her name) was the only one who didn’t care for him: at one point, everyone in the room except for Corn squealed at the mention of him, which really annoyed me. The author couldn’t’ve put even the slightest bit of personality into them?
Another thing is that the names are a mess. The main character was called Zea-Mays Calico, which means Corn-Corn Corn. There are some pretty fantasy names like Forelle and Lady Circi, but there’s also Berta and Kevon.
To conclude, this book was a sloppy, confusing mess of a read, with the worst cliches and awkward pacing. A shame, because I enjoyed the first part!