Ben Holiday, High Lord of the magic kingdom of Landover, and his wife Willow have sent their 15-year-old daughter Mistaya to our world to attend a ...
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Nov 04, 2010
Dawn
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I went back and forth with this, debating whether to give it two or three stars. In the end I went with three... But just barely.
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Terry Brooks. He was the first fantasy author I ever read, and I've read just about everything he has ever written.
That said, this book was somewhat of a disappointment to me. I was excited when I learned there would be a new Landover book, I had been hoping for one for a while. But the entire book f More...
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Terry Brooks. He was the first fantasy author I ever read, and I've read just about everything he has ever written.
That said, this book was somewhat of a disappointment to me. I was excited when I learned there would be a new Landover book, I had been hoping for one for a while. But the entire book f More...
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Mar 29, 2011
Bev
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Absolutely love Terry Brooks and have read almost all of his books...the Landover series being among my all time faves. I have waited many years for A Princess of Landover to come out and move the series forward...that being said while reading this book I felt a bit of disappoinment and I'm not really sure why. If this would have been a stand alone book and not set in Landover I would have said it was a pretty good read.
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Mar 16, 2011
Jacob
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Like Brooks' other Landover novels, A Princess of Landover succeeds in its goal: to entertain.
Ben and Willow have sent their only daughter, Mistaya, back to Earth - for some education. Unfortunately, unleashing a magically-gifted teenager into the usually-mundane private education system may not have been quite as good an idea as it sounded. Pressed by the school bully, Mistaya conjures a dragon - not the anticipated reacti More...
Like Brooks' other Landover novels, A Princess of Landover succeeds in its goal: to entertain.
Ben and Willow have sent their only daughter, Mistaya, back to Earth - for some education. Unfortunately, unleashing a magically-gifted teenager into the usually-mundane private education system may not have been quite as good an idea as it sounded. Pressed by the school bully, Mistaya conjures a dragon - not the anticipated reacti More...
Nov 05, 2010
Patrick
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It has been a long time since we readers have visited Landover. So long for me, in fact, that I had only vague recollections of the characters in the series when I sat down to read this latest entry. While I have enjoyed Brook's Shannara series a great deal (and his other series that have served as prequels to it), I always enjoyed Landover because it was a bit lighter and more fantastical fare, especially when it seemed like some of the later books in Shannara were beginning to perhaps get a bi
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Oct 28, 2010
Chibineko
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Aug 19, 2009
Micheal
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This book was a light read for me, mostly taking me a day to burn through. But if you know me, you would know that I would not burn through a book as fast asa that unless I was really interested in the storyline. From the start pretty much, Terry Brooks had me wanting to reach in the book and slap the main character, which as the title suggests, is the Princess of Landover. Ben Holiday is now the proud owner of a teenage daughter, and a very strong willed one at that. She starts off as the c
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Sep 23, 2011
Connie
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A PRINCESS OF LANDOVER by Terry Brooks is 400 pages in paperback form. This is #6 in The Magic Kingdom Of Landover Series.
I really enjoyed this book and it is the last in this series so far. It is considered young adult fantasy, but I don't think this is age biased. I think in you believe in magic, you can believe in this book of fantasy.
Mistaya is expelled from boarding school in the "real world" and goes back to Landover to tell her father and mother she just More...
I really enjoyed this book and it is the last in this series so far. It is considered young adult fantasy, but I don't think this is age biased. I think in you believe in magic, you can believe in this book of fantasy.
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Sep 14, 2010
Jimmy
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Now that Mistaya is mentally an adult, but emotionally a child, and physically a teenager, the Landover series has a more serious feel to it. The focus is dimmed and shifted from Ben Holiday and the spotlight shines on Mistaya. Some of the quirky humor is mostly gone, but the dialogue of quick and witty remarks with fantastic characters keeps the once remembered good times going. Even though Questor and Abernathy still have a go at one another, they are more of a team now, really and truly wo
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Sep 14, 2010
Jimmy
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Now that Mistaya is mentally an adult, but emotionally a child, and physically a teenager, the Landover series has a more serious feel to it. The focus is dimmed and shifted from Ben Holiday and the spotlight shines on Mistaya. Some of the quirky humor is mostly gone, but the dialogue of quick and witty remarks with fantastic characters keeps the once remembered good times going. Even though Questor and Abernathy still have a go at one another, they are more of a team now, really and truly wo
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Sep 17, 2009
Michael
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During my sophomore year of high school, a friend of mine who also shared my interest in classic "Star Trek" was stunned and horrified to learn that while I'd read a good bit of sci-fi, I'd never cracked a cover of a Terry Brooks novel. During a visit to the school library, unable to find a copy of the first Shanara book, he shoved a copy of "Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold" into my hands and said I had to read it.
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So, I did and I enjoyed it enough that I went on t More...
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Aug 03, 2009
Cindy AL
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First thanks to GoodReads and DelRey for the contest that allowed me to get this ARC copy. I enjoyed the book, and my family thought getting it early was very cool, thanks again.
It has been 10+ years since Terry Brooks last took his fans to the Magic Kingdom of Landover. Those of you who haven't read these books don't have to go back to the beginning to enjoy Princess. Brooks gives a synopsis of the Landover story in the first few chapters, and most of the back story needed to unders More...
It has been 10+ years since Terry Brooks last took his fans to the Magic Kingdom of Landover. Those of you who haven't read these books don't have to go back to the beginning to enjoy Princess. Brooks gives a synopsis of the Landover story in the first few chapters, and most of the back story needed to unders More...
Aug 09, 2009
David
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The Princess of Landover is about the daughter of Ben Holiday (the hero of the first 5 books in the Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold series). She's very much a typical teenager. She wants to be good, yet she finds the rules that she has to live under unfair, so she rebels. First by getting kicked out of school, then by running away from home (and worse as the book progresses). She eventually finds herself at a magical library where she has to solve a mystery without getting her or her friends killed.
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Sep 01, 2011
heather
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brooks' landover books seem to me to have more depth in general than his shanarra books, and mistaya holiday is a well-realized and interesting protagonist (although not as developed as ben holiday). that said, everyone else in the book becomes totally flat, even characters long familiar to readers of this series. questor & abernathy, ben & willow, the river master & strabo... they're all pretty much indistinguishable from one another - and not just because they aren't the stars of the show. bas
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Nov 01, 2010
Cheryl
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I haven't visited the magical kingdom of Landover for quite some time. And, unfortunately, I was a little disappointed with this book. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did the first couple of books in the series where Ben, Willow, Questor Thews and Abernathy were the principal characters. There were times when I wanted to give Mistaya a good shake and shout, "Quit acting like such a spoiled rotten little brat!". Then, I told myself her rebellious, know-it-all behaviour and atti
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Feb 23, 2010
Vincent
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This is a series I enjoyed many many moons ago when I was still in high school and I am glad to see Terry Brooks revisit it. I enjoyed the book, it was a good light read. It has most of our favorite characters from previous books mentioned at some point or another, and some of them more than others. It also has some of our, or at least my, less than favorite characters mentioned as well. I really wonder if Edgewood Dirk is a cat. Perhaps he should remind us of that fact another couple thous
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Apr 22, 2011
Adam
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*Sigh* I LOVE the Landover books--all of them. What happened? I had read some reviews from others on Goodreads in advance of reading this, and most of them were disappointed, but I was bound and determined not to be. Brooks has written some of the greatest fantasy novels of all time, and the Landover series has certainly been some of the most unique and inventive. They're like if Xanth had less exposed breasts and took itself a touch more seriously. Well, the magic sort of fizzles with "
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Aug 08, 2009
Justina
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I won this book from the goodreads giveaways and was very excited as it was my first book to read. It is as yet unpublished and is tenatively set to publish on Sept. 1. I read some of the Landover series a long time ago and remember liking them. I need to reread them, but had to read this one first. It was a very good book and able to stand alone without having to read the series.
It starts off in the in the atrium at Woodland Zoo in Seattle. I've been there so that was cool. I More...
It starts off in the in the atrium at Woodland Zoo in Seattle. I've been there so that was cool. I More...
Dec 12, 2010
Keri
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I picked up A Princess of Landover because I had seen Terry Brooks name often enough but never actually read him so I thought I'd give him a go as I'm always looking for new fantasy writers to try.
I have to say, that despite this book being number 6 which I didn't realise having ordered it online, it wasn't confusing for me being a new reader. In fact, the way that it was written made it easy for me to slip into the world and made me want to read the books that came before.
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I have to say, that despite this book being number 6 which I didn't realise having ordered it online, it wasn't confusing for me being a new reader. In fact, the way that it was written made it easy for me to slip into the world and made me want to read the books that came before.
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Dec 12, 2011
Andrew
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Like the previous five books in The Magic Kingdom of Landover series, this was an enjoyable and fun read. Like the preceding four, this one had a bit too much summarizing of the previous books for my taste. There were a few minor discrepancies with descriptions in previous books <spoiler>The River Master is not a wood nymph, that's Willow's mother. Likewise, Haltwhistle does not have a beaver's tail, it's a lizard's tail.</spoiler>. If I had a complaint about this particular book in
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Aug 07, 2009
Katie
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I remember as a child seeing the first book of this series, Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold!, sitting on my parents bookshelf. I was always intrigued by the cover and eventually when I was old enough I read it. I have read the entire series a couple of times throughout my life and was greatly surprised when I saw a new book was coming out after almost 15 years.
In true Terry Brooks style it doesn't take long before you find yourself sucked in to the story. Ben Holiday faces his greates More...
In true Terry Brooks style it doesn't take long before you find yourself sucked in to the story. Ben Holiday faces his greates More...
Aug 19, 2009
Nikki
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Sep 11, 2011
Grete
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Mistaya Holliday is a typical 15 year old girl. She wants to be in charge of her own life, thinks she has all the answers and thinks her parents decide too much for her. However, she is far from ordinary – a child born of three worlds and the daughter of Ben Holliday, King of Landover. Sent to a boarding school in the mundane world, she rebels after feeling as though she can’t fit in. Suspended for her behaviour, she returns to Landover and decides she won’t be going back. Her father howe
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Sep 29, 2009
Jeffrey
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Mar 14, 2010
Kurtbg
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Terry Brooks was one of the authors I've always enjoyed reading, but ever since he adapted The Phantom of the Menace to fiction it's been a different tune. There's not much bite to the story. What happens when a teenage princess of the kingdom throws her weight around? We'll, everyone falls in line of course. Elven kings? Dragons - no problem. The interesting parts happen in the introductory chapter which focuses on an exiled witch trapped in the body of a raven caged in a zoo. That storyline is
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Oct 25, 2009
lyn
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A gentle and entertaining fantasy. This was the first book of his that I've read, and I'm willing to seek out more, as I realize I jumped in part-way through a series. I liked the characters well enough, but some of the writing was a bit clunky and repetitive, and the dialogue often suffered from a bad case of exposition. Still, it was enjoyable, and I'd like to give this man another chance as he seems very well-regarded (what's with all the 'Terry' people in fantasy lit? I avoided this guy
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Sep 05, 2011
Derrick
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This was just another tired rehash. About Ben and Willow's daughter.
<spoiler>She is a teenager and rebellious and is sent off to a library to fix it. She rebels, Edgewood Dirk the prism cat convinces her to go anyway, she goes, discovers an evil magician [there only seem to be evil or inept magicians in Landover by the way] who is trying to open a gate to Abaddon</spoiler>
In the end she takes care of everything and learns a valuable lesson about listening to her el More...
<spoiler>She is a teenager and rebellious and is sent off to a library to fix it. She rebels, Edgewood Dirk the prism cat convinces her to go anyway, she goes, discovers an evil magician [there only seem to be evil or inept magicians in Landover by the way] who is trying to open a gate to Abaddon</spoiler>
In the end she takes care of everything and learns a valuable lesson about listening to her el More...
Oct 27, 2009
Audrey
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This was a fluffy, light read but I found myself much less into it than other Magic Kingdom books (although it appears I have missed a few!) I couldn't really put my finger on it, but I just wasn't excited to read it. I still finished the book and felt vaguely satisfied, but the urge to get to the next page just wasn't there.
In addition, a few possibly interesting plot points weren't explored (I can't be more specific without giving spoilers) - probably so he can get another book o More...
In addition, a few possibly interesting plot points weren't explored (I can't be more specific without giving spoilers) - probably so he can get another book o More...
Oct 20, 2011
Elizabeth
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The worst part of this book is the assumption that the reader has not read any of the previous books which my be realistic and required for good writing but it makes the book redundant and long. There is also a lot of redundancy that makes you think that the author forgot what he wrote in the last few chapters.
With a father like Ben Holliday, any girl would run away from home. The premises are too far fetched and the interactions are so negative a normal person can't enjoy this boo More...
With a father like Ben Holliday, any girl would run away from home. The premises are too far fetched and the interactions are so negative a normal person can't enjoy this boo More...
Apr 19, 2010
Mary Jane
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I've been hoping that Terry Brooks would return to Landover and was thrilled to see that he finally did! I just hope that he'll be inspired to go back again, soon! The Princess in the title is the daughter of Ben Holliday, the main character in the previous Landover books - which started with "Magic Kingdom for Sale". If you've read the others, you won't be disappointed in this one... well, unless you were hoping to see more of the regulars, they are more minor characters in this st
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