Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 3.75 | 17568 Users | 1327 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Princess Ben: Being a Wholly Truthful Account of Her Various Discoveries and Misadventures, Recounted to the Best of Her Recollection, in Four Parts |
| ISBN: | 0618959718 (ISBN13: 9780618959716) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Princess Benevolence, Prince Florian, Queen Sophia, Lady Beatrix |
| Setting: | Montagne |
| Literary Awards: | South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2011) |
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"My gown suited me as well as I could ever hope, though I could not but envy the young ladies who would attract the honest compliments of the night. My bodice did not plunge as dramatically as some, and no man--no man I would ever want to meet, surely--could fit his hands round my waist. What I lacked in beauty I would simply have to earn with charm..."Benevolence is not your typical princess--and Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale.
With her parents lost to assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle's pantries, setting her hair on fire... But Ben's private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat to her kingdom. Can Ben save the country and herself from tyranny?
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| Title | : | Princess Ben |
| Author | : | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | March 18th 2008 by HMH Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Romance. Fiction. Magic |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 17568 Users | 1327 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books Princess Ben
This earned 5 stars from me! Princess Ben is a wonderful girl/young women empowerment book. The main reason is the fact that the author doesn't pound the reader over the head with the girl empowerment. Your average fairy tale tends to make the female leads rather pathetic. I haven't read the original Grimm versions lately but just one example that comes to mind is Rumplestiltskin (no idea how to spell that. . . .). Anyway, Princess Ben has all the parts of a great fairy tale. Dead mother,I have got to say this keep me up at night. Literally. The urge to read the last word was so great I forced my eyes to pry open. At first it was slow going, but that was understandable. We needed the whole background. I had mixed feelings going in because I had already gobbled and enjoyed reading Dairy Queen and The Off Season by the same author. This series has one of the best protagonist I've seen in young adult books, so my expectations were almost unreachable but I was pleased to find that I
First of all I didn't finish this book.Reading the blurb I thought it might be interesting, but the writing was too hard to follow and the whole diary thing got a bit tiring too.The idea was there, the problem was with the execution.It just didn't click for me and that's too bad.
Benevolence is the beloved only child of the royal family. When the king (her uncle) and the princess (her mother) are killed, Ben's life takes a terrible turn. No longer is she allowed the cozy, unpretentious, rough-and-tumble childhood she so enjoyed. Instead she must live in the palace with her aunt, the queen regent, who is so controlled and controlling that it nearly drives Ben mad. Her only solace is learning magic on the sly. After a disastrous ball, Ben embarks on an adventure by turns
This was really disappointing - I'm a huge fan of her Dairy Queen trilogy, so I was expecting to enjoy this. Unfortunately it has tons of enormous gaping plotholes, impossible characters, and a bad habit of showing something entirely different to what it tells. And the thing is - this was her third novel published (and, as far as I can tell, written), so she'd already done vastly superior work.(view spoiler)[So - why is it set up as though the important thing is that his feelings are hurt
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. First let me say that I'm not a fan of these realistic book covers, which seem to be all the rage recently. I much prefer the more artistic covers that allow me to imagine what the main character etc. look like. I'm also usually a little skeptical of fairy tale retellings because it seems that they can so easily go awry.This one, however, did not. Yay! Murdock takes all the most familiar parts of the princess fairytales (the tower, the sleep-enchanted
Despite my dislike of these realistic (and totally inaccurate) covers, this book proved to be quite a delight. Princess Ben isn't your run of the mill princess. She hasn't been trained for princessery, due to her mother's adamant stance against it, and only because her aunt proved to be barren and widowed does the throne fall to her. Still, she's powerless as well as being completely clumsy, unlikable, incompetent, and a glutton. And no, she's not the kind of oh-that's-so-cute, freckles across
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