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Miri is leaving her home on Mount Eskel. As a lady of the future princess, Britta, she and the princess academy girls are being brought to Asland to help prepare for the upcoming royal wedding, and even as she’s terrified to leave the only home she’s ever known, she’s thrilled to find out what adventures will await her in the city.
But when Miri has the chance to attend school at the Queen’s Castle, she begins to learn how very little she knows about the world — especially when she meets another student and learns of frightening, exhilarating plans that speak against the nobility. Suddenly, Miri finds herself torn between her loyalty to the princess and these new ideas, and she isn’t sure anymore if she belongs back in the mountains with Peder or in the city with a new crush and the thrilling whisper of revolution.
I fell in love with Miri and Mount Eskel in the first book, and returning to her story felt a little bit like coming home, only to find you’ve changed. Essentially, that’s what we see happening with Miri as the story progresses. She loses some of the innocence that made Princess Academy such an endearing and perfect read. In the end, though, Palace of Stone explores what it means to grow up, and there’s something bittersweet and beautiful about that as well.
Rated: Mild, for revolutions and mobs, mild violence and peril, and an attempted assassination.
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