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Long Live the Queen (The President's Daughter #3)

by Ellen Emerson White

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Being the President’s daughter isn’t easy, but Meg’s getting used to it. She’s even starting to have a life again—okay, not a normal life, but things are beginning to fall into a routine.
Then it happens—machine guns blast, a van screeches to a halt, and masked men grab Meg and take her away.
Meg doesn’t understand what the terrorists want. She doesn’t underst...more

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Published July 22nd 2008 by Feiwel & Friends (first published April 1st 1989)

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Mar 29, 2008

Willa rated it

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This third installment of The President's Daughter series is a lot more gritty and harsh than its two predecessors. I didn't read it back when it was released because somehow I wasn't aware of it, and I'm kind of glad. Meg, the daughter of the first female U.S. President, is kidnapped by terrorists and goes through a harrowing hostage experience and, in some ways, an even more harrowing escape. I really think that this book would have upset me greatly as a teenager, but Meg is an amazingly stron...more

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Jul 30, 2008

Jess rated it

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Meg Powers returns (book three) as a senior--still in the White House and now looking towards Prom, college, and tennis. Then she's kidnapped and everything turns to survival.

Good but dark. Darker than I expected or wanted. But good.

Sure, Meg apologizes a few too many times and she has a few too many witty comebacks to be believable. Yet, she remains a likable character in a realistic and engaging novel.

White ups the ante with each novel. I'm not sure I...more

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Jan 19, 2009

Aaron rated it

In the third volume in The President's Daughter series starts off with Meghan Powers really feeling that things are starting to settled down. Between her mother's election and a later assassination attempt, things have been pretty hectic over the last few years. Then there is her growing relationship with Josh, one of her friends from school. It is no question that they are boyfriend and girlfriend, but she can't help but wonder if he is overwhelmed who she (and her family) is.

Unfort...moreIn the third volume in The President's Daughter series starts off with Meghan Powers really feeling that things are starting to settled down. Between her mother's election and a later assassination attempt, things have been pretty hectic over the last few years. Then there is her growing relationship with Josh, one of her friends from school. It is no question that they are boyfriend and girlfriend, but she can't help but wonder if he is overwhelmed who she (and her family) is.

Unfortunately, Meg doesn't get to explore it too far with Josh. Just as she has talked to him about their maybe taking a step back and being friends, she finds her world full of turmoil when she is abducted.

The President's daughter is a victim of kidnapping by terrorists. She finds herself in custody of a cruel, yet normal-seeming and intelligent, guy. He does everything to scare her before leaving her chained to die in an abandoned mine. It is up to her to do the things that must be done to survive, but it is really what happens when she returns to her family that things really start to get tough.

From there on, the struggle becomes an internal one as she is confronted with how her physical injuries will affect her plans and how the emotional scarring makes it difficult to deal with her family, her friends, and Josh. It takes the helping hand of Beth, her lifelong friend from Boston, to start to focus on the fact that not only does she have to realize that she has a future but that she has to start living again or she will waste it.

As with the rest of White's book, Meg's voice (both internal and external) is the real strength of the book. While she is such a strong person, the reality of her self-doubt is so real and frank. I know I was on the edge of my seat as I joined her through her abduction, her being held, and her settling back into a new life of normalcy. I have already read the next book, Long May She Reign, in which Meg heads off to college. She is still trying to deal with the remaining physical and emotional scars in that volume, too.

On a really exciting note, I just found out that their will be a fifth volume in the series while I was looking to get a copy of the book cover for this review.(less)

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Jan 18, 2009

Hannah rated it

Life never seems to get any easier for Meg Powers. She's kidnapped. At first I was a little apprehensive upon reading that. I figured the author would slip Meg into the helpless damsel that I had admired her for not being, but boy was I surprised. I had expected the author to gloss over the grittier details of her kidnapping and the aftermath, but she didn't. She completely, and adequately, described how this had affected not just Meg, but everyone around her. The FBI didn't swoop in and save he...more

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Dec 30, 2011

Alexa rated it

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Sep 12, 2011

Danielle rated it

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I remember reading this when I was maybe in the 6th grade and thinking it was such a good book. There were two scenes in particular that seemed so real, and scary, they've stayed with me since then. The book popped up on a "best young adult" list and I decided to give it another read. Years later I still really enjoyed it. Probably one of the better YA reads out there.

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Oct 07, 2010

Holly rated it

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Meg’s back at the White House, doing what she does and loves best: playing tennis. Security has let up a bit since the incident with her mother and her relationships are mostly back to normal. Prom is quickly approaching, and Josh will be her date. Back in Massachusetts Beth is going with her newest guy. Meg’s biggest hurdles seem to be choosing a college – her parents want Harvard and she wants the lower key, skiing-friendly Williams College – senioritis, and finding a way to play tennis compet...moreMeg’s back at the White House, doing what she does and loves best: playing tennis. Security has let up a bit since the incident with her mother and her relationships are mostly back to normal. Prom is quickly approaching, and Josh will be her date. Back in Massachusetts Beth is going with her newest guy. Meg’s biggest hurdles seem to be choosing a college – her parents want Harvard and she wants the lower key, skiing-friendly Williams College – senioritis, and finding a way to play tennis competitively. But a dark fate waits for her just around the corner. This time Meg’s the target and her life will unquestionably never be the same again.

Well wow. I thought what Meg experienced with her mother’s shooting in White House Autumn was pretty rough. But this is nothing compared to that trauma. Meg’s cruelly ripped from her normalized life that she is just beginning to enjoy again into the hands of criminal masterminds for the majority of the book. At one point it was so raw and unfiltered that I couldn’t go on, the outlook was too grim and the suffering too painful. Like Meg I seemed to see no end to it. Her reactions – ranging from bravery to terror, resourcefulness to despair – were frighteningly real. When I came back I had the hope necessary to see her through this. But it was almost equally painful to see Meg on the other side, forced to heal and deal whilst refusing everyone and confiding in no one. If the heart of The President's Daughter was the nuanced relationship between Meg and her mother, Long Live the Queen is about Meg and Beth, her feisty, independent best friend from back home. She has this magical power for reaching obstinate, bottled up Meg. I relished their scenes together. Their humor complements each other nicely and adds an accompanying lightheartedness to the heftier discussions and revelations. Because I am already such a fan of both Meg and Beth I only fell in love with them deeper, especially Beth. There is light at the end of the tunnel and I can’t imagine having to wait seventeen years for the next book, Long May She Reign. I’m incredibly fortunate to have it sitting on my shelf, waiting patiently to be read. Funny enough I have this need to know how and where Meg goes from here.(less)

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Sep 16, 2009

Michelle rated it

Shelves: ya, 2009, all-time-faves, own

Meg's family has faced some pretty rocky times in the last couple of years. Her mother, now Madame President Powers, is still recovering from an shocking attack (albeit out of the public eye) and Meg's family seems to now be, not-surprisingly, closer and more tight-knit than ever. Meg's biggest worry is finishing up her senior year while trying to avoid the ever-present reporters who follow her families' every move when the unthinkable happens: Meg is brutally kidnapped by terrorists and forced ...moreMeg's family has faced some pretty rocky times in the last couple of years. Her mother, now Madame President Powers, is still recovering from an shocking attack (albeit out of the public eye) and Meg's family seems to now be, not-surprisingly, closer and more tight-knit than ever. Meg's biggest worry is finishing up her senior year while trying to avoid the ever-present reporters who follow her families' every move when the unthinkable happens: Meg is brutally kidnapped by terrorists and forced to endure more than she ever imagined. Meg isn't sure why she was taken or even where, but she knows the terrorists have no plans to let her live. Which quickly becomes her only goal.

Meg goes through some truly horrific stuff in this novel. She's beaten down and left so physically and emotionally scarred, she knows her life will never be the same again. Unexpectedly, I found myself repeatedly in tears while reading because I had unknowingly become so dang attached to Meg, I understand why some scenarios were more painful than others. Ellen Emerson White knew she couldn't start off the series with a story like this, but since she's built up a character (Meg) supported by incredible secondary characters with such believable interactions that I was completely drawn into this story. I could feel and understand every single person's pain because I'd been with them all for so long, I just got it.

So if I thought White House Autumn was taking a risk dealing with a presidential attack, then Long Live the Queen has to take some kind of award for even daring to discuss a teen who is taken hostage by terrorists. I do have one thing to say about Ellen Emerson White, that woman is fearless. Fiercely fearless. She doesn't shy away from any of the tough questions or the questionable emotions, she faces each dead-on with a calm and precise determination. Terrorists, kidnapping, Vietnam - I mean is there anything this woman can't do - and do well?

For this third installment, I find it noteworthy that the artwork was chosen to mimic James McNeill Whistler's classic painting Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother. I can't fault their taste - there is something inherently classic about Whistler's work, I totally dig it. Of course it is tongue in cheek with the hanging picture of the White House in the background and it definitely allows you to see the bright blue leg and hand brace Meg is now sporting. As for the Queen herself, Meg's attitude seems to be almost passive, which after reading this novel, I can assure you is anything but, which is a none too subtle reminder that Meg is under constant scrutiny all the time and that even when she's feeling wretched and depressed, she's still putting on her 'public' face and doing what she has to.(less)

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Sep 04, 2011

Barbara rated it

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Jun 24, 2010

Jaclyn rated it

Dear Book, thanks for keeping me up an hour and a half past my bedtime. I had just read up to where Meg, the President's daughter, is in the hands of a kidnaper, and then I had to find out how she escaped and what happened after. The characters in this entire series are so real. They aren't really my sort of people--Meg is sporty and sarcastic and I'm not sure I'd care for her much in real life--but she is SO well-drawn it doesn't really matter if she's the kind of person you'd actually want to ...more

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May 12, 2011

Julia rated it

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Such a visceral and compelling account, both in the violence and pain of the kidnapping and the aftershocks and depression of recovery. White writes phenomenal dialogue and her characters, both heroes and villains, are well written and convincing. Meg's struggles with PTSD are all the more believable since the events of the kidnapping are vividly portrayed. While this book does contain significant violence and sexual threat, the triumphs of this character are the real focus of LONG LIVE THE Q...more

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Dec 19, 2011

Linda rated it

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This 3rd book in a series about Meg, daughter of a woman president, is one of the most shocking young adult books I ever read. Meg is kidnapped by terrorists, chained to a wall, beaten, starved, frequently threatened with death, and finally abandoned in a cave to die. Only her tenacity allows her to escape and survive but she is left with grave injuries, both physical and emotional. There's no light reading here. The author writes as if she is inside Meg's head and Meg's world is very real to th...more

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Apr 27, 2009

alex rated it

I don't want to give away too much of the plot details (although you get the general idea from the back of the book) - but when Meg, daughter to the first female president, is kidnapped, her strength is tested in the extreme. And when she is safe again, her bravery is tested even more.
This was again wonderfully written, and I basically inhaled it, and now I'm eagerly looking forward to reading the final volume.
And with this one as well, I'd really like to get my hands on the orig...more

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Dec 15, 2010

Chachic rated it

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It took me a while to pick this up because based on the premise, it seemed like something that isn't easy to read. I was even warned that it has some trauma and that I should be prepared for it. Ellen Emerson White is an amazing writer but I feel like I have to be in a certain mood before I could read her books. Just when Meg feels like she's starting to get used to being the president's daughter, she's forcibly taken by terrorists and she doesn't even understa...moreOriginally posted here.

It took me a while to pick this up because based on the premise, it seemed like something that isn't easy to read. I was even warned that it has some trauma and that I should be prepared for it. Ellen Emerson White is an amazing writer but I feel like I have to be in a certain mood before I could read her books. Just when Meg feels like she's starting to get used to being the president's daughter, she's forcibly taken by terrorists and she doesn't even understand why. My heart was pounding the entire time I was reading Meg's ordeal. Even though I already knew terrible things would occur, I was still scared because there's no way that I could predict what would happen next. As a reader, I felt like I was with Meg every step of the way. It all felt very real. The storytelling is vivid and no detail is spared - all of Meg's feelings and thoughts were documented. I actually wanted to jump forward in the novel to take a peek at how things will develop but it's a good thing I waited. I admire Meg for being as strong as she was and she even keeps her unique brand of humor wherever she was.

One of the highlights of the novel (the entire series, in fact) is the distinct and realistic dynamics of the Powers family. You know they all love each other but they don't really know how to act when they're all together and as a result, most of their dealings are awkward. I don't think I've read any other YA series that focuses on the character's family as much as this one. Even the love story took a backseat. Also prominent in this installment is Beth Shulman, Meg's best friend from back home. It's a struggle for both Beth and the entire Powers family to reach out and help Meg as she continually pushes people away. I read this series because it's been repeatedly recommended by both Angie and Michelle. I second (third?) the recommendation because this series is a different kind of YA but be prepared because the books are compelling but they're not easy to read. I think the mark of a well-written novel is that it can make you care for the characters to the point that you don't want anything bad to happen to them (or when bad things happen, you want them to overcome those situations). I have a feeling Meg's recovery in Long May She Reign, the last installment in the President's Daughter series, is going to be difficult but I'm hoping that good things will happen to her. She really deserves to be happy. I kind of wish she'd end up with a certain young and fashionable press secretary. (less)

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Sep 26, 2009

Katie rated it

Shelves: books-read-in-2009, favorites, books-read-in-2010

Okay, as I've said before, I LOVED these books! Probably my favorites this year. They're about . . . um, well, the president's daughter . . . the only daughter of the first female president. Meg is 15 when the books start and 18 in Long May She Reign (and there better be more!), and has two younger brothers.

The first two started off a bit slowly. The author started them when she was in college and they're a bit rough, but still very readable. And I (maybe unfairly) struggled with the...more

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Aug 02, 2008

Libby rated it

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Like a lot of readers (I imagine), I spent a considerable amount of time alone when I was young. My sister is eight years older than myself, and was frequently out of the house, and both my parents worked long hours. During the summers, however, I would go to San Diego and live with my grandparents. I had a best friend there, also a reader, also kind of a lonely kid, and together we shared and traded books over the course of at least 14 summers.

One of the many wonderful books that s...moreLike a lot of readers (I imagine), I spent a considerable amount of time alone when I was young. My sister is eight years older than myself, and was frequently out of the house, and both my parents worked long hours. During the summers, however, I would go to San Diego and live with my grandparents. I had a best friend there, also a reader, also kind of a lonely kid, and together we shared and traded books over the course of at least 14 summers.

One of the many wonderful books that she instructed me to read was this one, which I still remember after all these years. I think I was about ten when I read the first novel in the series, The President's Daughter, which I checked out from the San Diego Public Library down the street from my Bobe and Zade's house. The book struck such a huge chord with my little pre-adolescent heart. I identified with Meg completely: she was smart, prone to sassiness, often lonely, and she had a powerful, successful mother whom she loved and admired, but about whom she had complicated feelings. My own mother was (is) a righteous bad-ass of an attorney, of whom I was extremely proud, but also resented and would have liked to have seen more of. Furthermore, I was completely enchanted by the novel's premise: Meg's mother becomes the first female president of the United States. I remember feeling thrilled by this, but also thinking it was an obvious fantasy(!)--this was in 1987 or 1988. I wish my ten year old self could have seen just twenty years into the future.

I gobbled up the following novel, White House Autumn, and then finally, this one, for which I was totally unprepared. Where the first two novels were authentic, non-condescending portraits of a complicated young woman struggling to adjust to a bizarre new life, the third novel went to a really dark place. It may sound soap-opera-esque or melodramatic, but in Long Live the Queen, Meg is abducted. I've never forgotten the eerie, disturbing characterization of her captor, whose terrifying ego and sociopathic charm threatened my sleep. But worse, or more terrifying, than that was Meg's escape. If I remember correctly, she broke her own fingers with a large rock in order to extricate her hand from its cuff. The rest of the (incredibly sad) novel was about Meg readjusting to life post-trauma. I think that a large part of this novel's pull for me was the way that, similarly to the horror movies with which I was obsessed, it distracted me from the more more prosaic but equally unhappy-making terrors hovering on the perimeters of my own life, which were mostly adult, and therefore not fully understood, but fully felt nonetheless, by me.

It's strange how this one small novel, not a classic in any cannon of childhood literature, recalls so much for me, so quickly: my summers in San Diego, my long lost friend Jessica Koziol, my first awakenings of a political sensibility, the taste of the Rainbow Sherbet from the Thrifty's next door to the library (25 cents a scoop!), the smell of the Eucalyptus trees in the canyon near my Bobe and Zade's house, my child's view of my mother, my nebulous fears of the world, and those dilatory, unretrievable afternoons of reading for hours, and hours, and hours, with nothing to do and nowhere to be.

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Sep 01, 2008

Carrie rated it

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Shelves: young-adult

Ellen Emerson White is a YA author who's been around for years. One of her books, Life Without Friends, was one of my favorites when I was growing up. Her series about the daughter of the first female president has been out of print for a while, but she's updated parts of it and the books are being re-released. I say parts of it because the characters do email and text, but whenever they watch tv, it's dvds of old shows like The Brady Bunch and Hill Street Blues.

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Jan 12, 2010

Jen rated it

Recommends it for: fans of strong female characters; YA fans; Political junkies

Recommended to Jen by: alex

Shelves: fantasy, my-favorites, truthiness, young-adult

Meghan Powers feels like she's finally adjusting to life as the President's daughter when she is kidnapped. The kidnappers have no interest in allowing her to remain alive, while Meg has no interest in letting anyone end her life for her.
A tremendously well-written book, handled with sensitivity and just an awesome sense of how our government actually functions.
I stayed up very late to finish this one and have no regrets since I know this will stay with me for a long time.

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Oct 19, 2009

Renfrew rated it

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Shelves: contemporary, young-adult

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Jan 02, 2011

Rincey rated it

Shelves: 2011

Well this book took a turn I was not expecting. I saw the brace on her arm & leg on the cover, but I was not expecting this. I didn't love this one AS much because I really like the political stuff and this one doesn't deal with it as much, but I still love it.

Basically I read this book and just make a million West Wing references in my head. Obviously Meg=Zoey Bartlet & Preston = Dulé Hill.

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Jun 14, 2009

Ryan rated it

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I gave this four stars despite the fact that some (a lot) of it was cringe-inducing. But, the author sure is dialed in to the psyche of a 17 year old. I love the first two books in the series when I was a young teenager, and it was a delicious treat to discover that there are two more books! A total guilty pleasure.

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Aug 04, 2011

Amanda s added it

good book !! would have liked to see what steven neal her mother and father were doing / thinking though while she was missing and not have the book just talk about meg. it was very good in the end and I loved how beth came to the rescue!! cant wait to read the last installment of this series :)

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May 30, 2011

Cwelshhans rated it

I loved this book as a teen, and it still holds up. Funny, sarcastic, strong heroine, and politics -- some of my favorite things. I still have the original version, so I have no idea if the updates to the series make any difference to this particular one.

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Jul 06, 2011

Angela Blackburn rated it

I read this book in middle school, so at first I was confused with the modern-day revisions like the reference to Mean Girls. Just as good, if not better than the first time I read it. So glad I found this series!

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Apr 12, 2011

Carrie Prock rated it

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Shelves: young-adult-fiction

I loved the first half of the book. I stayed up late so that I could go to sleep without stressing how Meg would escape her kidnappers. The remainder of the book was too drawn out for me. I kept expecting a villain to reappear and they don't. The ending was a anticlimax.

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Jan 20, 2011

Melissa rated it

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This was another tween favorite. I'm tempted to read the other books about Meg that I missed but I'm afraid as an adult, it will ruin my memories...ha!

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Nov 16, 2008

Uma rated it

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Apr 02, 2009

Regan rated it

OMG. this book was so intense. i actually liked the terrorist character. all of these books are amazing.

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Jul 31, 2011

Tdraut18 rated it

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Too much swearing for my taste, but a very well-written book. Meg is a wonderful character!

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Aug 13, 2010

Judy rated it

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I did not read this book! I accidentally added it to my shelf.

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