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A review by x0pherl
Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale
2.0
My daughter and I were both pretty disappointed with the follow up to Princess Academy.
The story is too ambitious, and lacks the charm and warmth of the first book. For the first half of the book, little was going on of real interest (this book took us a llllooooonnnng time to get through) and the entirety focuses far too much on politics and the responsibilities of the monarchy to the poor.
By the second half of the book, the plot picked up enough to be interesting again, but the book had already mostly lost us.
I don't strongly recommend this book.
The story is too ambitious, and lacks the charm and warmth of the first book. For the first half of the book, little was going on of real interest (this book took us a llllooooonnnng time to get through) and the entirety focuses far too much on politics and the responsibilities of the monarchy to the poor.
By the second half of the book, the plot picked up enough to be interesting again, but the book had already mostly lost us.
I don't strongly recommend this book.