the rosewood chronicles 2 princess in practice connie glynn

If you wanted this to work, you needed Saskia and Lottie to have built a slow but steady friendship. They interact rarely and it never delves further than superficial small-talk, which is extremely frustrating when this approach is taken with all the characters and all the relationships in the book. Why does she tell all to Lottie of all people? Why is Lottie the one to comfort her? Why not Anastacia, who has been there for her since even before Leviathan? Where is this sudden outpouring of emotion coming from in the first place? There's a point where Saskia has a breakdown about her past to Lottie. Why? It all boils down to the fact that character development moments were either too sudden or completely absent. The problem in this series is that none of the characters feel like they could be real people. If they're not going to be distinct, why bother including them in the book at all? Why not just cut them out? Could've also done without the gratuitous Japanese all over the place (for the last time, bilingual and multi-lingual people don't spontaneously bleat words in their native language whilst speaking another!), but this has happened all throughout the series with poor Anastacia's random French exclamations, so what else was I expecting?

The other new characters in Sayuri's posse, unfortunately, are as forgettable as glasses of water. That said, she just shies away from feeling entirely like a three-dimensional character. She has a distinctly no-nonsense personality that provided a great foil to Lottie's 'let's all help each other' mindset. She is the most striking out of the newbies, the most memorable.

Not flawless, but much better, and much, much more tolerable. I didn't read PRINCESS IN PRACTICE all that long ago, so it's exciting to see already that the characters feel and act more real and that the prose is much sharper and stronger. If you read THE LOST PRINCESS in comparison to UNDERCOVER PRINCESS, the improvement is phenomenal. She also confirmed to me that Binah is aromantic, which was awesome. Not a flawless book, but the best in THE ROSEWOOD CHRONICLES yet.īefore I start, I will mention that upon acquiring this book at YALC I actually met Connie Glynn, who was lovely and kind.

THE LOST PRINCESS is thrumming full of magic, adventure, bright characters and thoughtful mystery.

The rosewood chronicles 2 princess in practice connie glynn