| Title | : | Thorn in Her Side (The Princess School, #7) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0439798736 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780439798730 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2006 |
Nobody is surprised when Rose lands the part of Princess Perfecta in the school play. At first Rose bristles at once again being cast as perfect, but soon she throws herself into her role--especially her scenes opposite Nettle, who plays the Scary Fairy. Everyone else is wary of sour little Nettle, but Rose is impressed. Nettle is a brilliant actor who always stays in character--even offstage he gives Rose withering looks and acts like he'd really like to curse her. It's almost as if Nettle actually is an evil fairy with a special grudge against Rose....
Thorn in Her Side (The Princess School, #7) Reviews
-
Sad to say, I think these books went downhill. There was something lacking in this one. An acting troupe comes to town and the school puts on a play.
Now, it's a very feminist play, for a world of fairy tales. All the parts with the exception of one are played by the princesses. The prince ends up getting rescued by his princess. But it's rather heavy-handed girl power, it seems like to me.
But that's not the reason the book is just sort of blah. The main plot is Briar Rose thinks this fairy called Nettle is an awesome actor. He's playing the role of the Scary Fairy in the play. And is perfect for the part. And seems to always be in character. See where I'm going with this?
So it comes as no surprise that he's the bad fairy at Rose's birth and that he's come to cast a curse on her. The only twist is that he wouldn't be such a bad guy if her parents hadn't been overprotective even then and didn't want him and his stinging Nettle self around their baby.
Meanwhile Rapunzel is getting sick, but only while she's on stage. Jee, I wonder why that could be. I mean, seriously. And nobody in the acting troupe catches on. Even when Rapunzel herself catches on, she doesn't seek help or advice. Another princess ends up taking her place. Brava. Way to overcome obstacles.
And the two princes have all but disappeared in this book and the last.
All in all, the most blah of all the books. Though I still hold #3 as the worst.
The book advertises another book in the series, "Slippery Steps", and it would've been about time for them to get back to Cinderella. But apparently Scholastic canceled its publication at the last minute.
Which really blows my mind, because I read one of those Rainbow Fairy books (Trixie the Halloween Fairy) and those are crap. And yet there's billions of them. Same publisher.
So a disappointing end to a series that somewhat managed to hold my attention. At least now I can move on to other books. -
This was another book that my (now 6 year old) daughter and I read together as a bedtime book. We both decided it was not what we were expecting, but we both enjoyed it. I think it is probably targeted at children who are closer to the 8 year old range.
-
I remember these!!! I read them in, like, 3rd grade!!!!! They were actually very good then.
-
This is a (very slow) classical story about fathers and daughters. In this story, Snow White tries to cure her returned father of the amnesietic curse Maladora cast on him.
