In this unusual blend of coming-of-age, adventure, fantasy, and fairy tale story Shannon Hale gives us a strong girl persona, wicked “outlaw outsiders,” corrupt business dealings, strict “princess trainers,” and a prince in need of a proper princess.
Miri yearns to prove herself useful to her widowed father by working in the village quarry, but, he forbids this, thus cutting his daughter off from the bond of the villagers who earn their living carving stone on Mount Eskel. Everything about this book is perfect and you should read it!Īnd I’ve recently discovered it’s a series?! So those are going straight to the top of my TBR! ( ) I love how this book subverted my expectations by taking a rather cliché premise and turning it into a story about the value of education and the power that comes from knowing your worth and banding together as a group. But as Miri and the others know, the mountain is unpredictable. So the last thing anyone expects is for a royal messenger to arrive and announce that the next princess will be chosen from Mount Eskel.Īn academy is established to train the rough mountain girls in everything they need to know to be princesses in one year the prince will come and select his bride.
In their isolated village, they have little knowledge or care about what goes on in the lowlands. This was a reread, and I loved it just as much this second time around as I did when my much younger self read it the first time.įourteen-year-old Miri lives on a mountain where her people quarry a special stone that they supply to the rest of the kingdom.
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