Haddix, Margaret Peterson Palace of Lies, 355 pages.
Simon & Schuster, 2015. $18. Violence: PG (lots of
danger, no blood); Mature Content: G; Language: G.
The Thirteen princesses of Suala are ready to celebrate
their happily ever after - the treaty with Fridesia and Jeb and Ella are about
to be married. Then, someone sets the palace on fire the night of a grand
ball. Desmia, the princess who grew up in the palace manages to save one
other princess, but loses sight of all the others in the conflagration and
passes out. When she awakes, she finds herself the patient (or prisoner)
of Madame Bisset, whom she remembers as one of Ella’s adversaries. Desmia
will need to escape, find help, and make her way across her country to Fridesia
in order to solve this mystery and save her kingdom. Even though Madame
Bisset tells her the other princesses are all dead, she won’t give up hope.
Shows you how sometimes details escape me. I had no
clue that Just Ella was the first in a series; I thought that it and
Palace of Mirrors were unrelated. Sorry. I was happy to watch
Desmia grow from a suspicious tool of Lord Throckmorton’s into a kind person
who now knows how to find faith and good in others without being blinded to
their faults. I now want to hear more about each of the other princesses
- both their original stories and how they made their way to Fridesia! Get
on it Ms. Haddix!. One grumble, however – I do not like these new covers; the
students I have talked to find them as boring as I do.
EL, MS - ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Middle School Librarian,
MLS.
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