To make matters more difficult for Miri, the three girls have little interest in becoming educated and cultured, because that's going to be just so useful in the swamplands.
They're especially good at caiman wrestling.Īll of the money to support Miri and the girls is being stolen by unscrupulous traders and the local village headperson. Miri reluctantly travels to the province of Lesser Alva to take on the year-long job, and finds three illiterate, destitute sisters living alone in a linder stone house in the middle of a swamp, scraping by by fishing and hunting. Miri, an older teen now, is on her way from the capital city back to her mountain home when she is unexpectedly requested commanded by the king and queen to be the tutor for three royal girls living in a distant corner of Danland, in a mini-princess academy, so one of them can marry a neighboring king from the country of Stora to avoid war. which I doubt was originally intended to be a series, but it turned out pretty well. Readers will be sad to see Miri go but satisfied that she leaves on an ultimately happy and memorable note.The Forgotten Sisters is a charming sequel to Princess Academy, wrapping up that MG trilogy. Hale once again manages to create a cast of female characters diverse in their qualities and distinctly individual, offering an inclusive portrait of what girlhood and womanhood look like. She’s still the same wonderfully outspoken nonconformist, though, and her verbal takedown of several members of the royal family is both powerful and satisfying. That’s appropriate, given that Miri herself has matured quite a bit she has begun to recognize that good people are capable of terrible deeds and that forgiveness often comes in halting, sputtering steps.
Hale’s conclusion to her popular series offers a satisfying wrap-up of the previous installments’ themes of friendship, female empowerment, and citizenship, but it also offers a slightly more sophisticated and mature look at the nuances of political strategy. The king’s cousins, however, live in the literal backwaters, and upon Miri’s arrival in the swampy area known as Lesser Alva, she finds three nearly feral sisters living on their own, a town that shuns them, and a host of secrets that could completely change the future of Danland and its rulers.
In order to prevent war with a neighboring country, the king is offering up three of his distant cousins as potential brides for a political alliance, and he wants Miri to train them in the art of being princesses. In this final installment of Hale’s Princess Academy series ( Princess Academy, BCCB 9/05, etc.), Miri is prepping to return to her beloved mountain home and announce her betrothal to her childhood friend Peder when she is summoned by the king for an important task.
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