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Title: The Forgotten Sisters
Subtitle: Princess Academy
Author: Shannon Hale
Narrator: Mandi Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-15
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 163 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
After a year at the king's palace, Miri has learned all about being a proper princess. But the tables turn when the student must become the teacher!
Instead of returning to her beloved Mount Eskel, Miri is ordered to journey to a distant swamp and start a princess academy for three sisters, cousins of the royal family. Unfortunately, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are more interested in hunting and fishing than becoming princesses.
As Miri spends more time with the sisters, she realizes the king and queen's interest in them hides a long-buried secret. She must rely on her own strength and intelligence to unravel the mystery, protect the girls, complete her assignment, and finally make her way home.
Fans of Shannon Hale won't want to miss this gorgeously woven return to this best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning series.
Members Reviews:
A wonderful story for girls AND BOYS!
4.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
I just adore Shannon Hales PRINCESS ACADEMY books for young readers. The Forgotten Sisters, released earlier this week, is the third and final installment. This review will contain spoilers for the previous books.
In book one, Princess Academy, the first school was built in Mount Eskel, an uneducated rural mining community. The purpose of the school was to educate marriageable young ladies so that the prince of their realm could choose a fitting bride. One of the potential princess wannabees, Miri, wasnt chosen to be princess, but she learned subjects and skills that she used to better Mount Eskels economic situation. In the second book, Palace of Stone, Miri goes to the capital city for more education and ends up quelling a revolution.
Now, in The Forgotten Sisters, Miri is about to return to Mount Eskel with Peder, the boy she loves, when the king and queen decide instead to send her to Lesser Alva, a backwater province, so she can set up a new Princess Academy. A neighboring kingdom has become hostile and King Bjorn hopes to appease him with a marriage alliance. There are three royal cousins living in Lesser Alva and its Miris job to get them educated and up to snuff so the foreign king can pick one. Miri bristles at the idea of an arranged marriage, but she negotiates with King Bjorn and gets a deal that satisfies her moral standards and will greatly benefit Mount Eskel.
When Miri arrives in Lesser Alva, the situation is much worse than she anticipated. First of all, the place is literally a swamp. She finds her charges Astrid, Felissa, and Sus surviving off the land without any parental guidance. Even if they wanted to be educated, which they dont, they have no time for it because they spend so much time just trying to keep themselves fed. As Miri tries to help them fix their situation and do the job she was sent to do, she discovers that her communication with her friends in the capital and Mount Eskel has been cut off. While investigating, she uncovers ugly secrets and plots and realizes that her life is in danger.
As usual, Hale takes the unexpected route and delivers a childrens story that turns the whole princess thing on its head. Even though I knew Hale does this, I was still surprised by the originality of this story. The Forgotten Sisters is entertaining, adventurous, funny, touching, and optimistic (she even manages to redeem a villain from one of the previous stories).
