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Calypso Chronicles #3
Dueling Princes
Dating Britain's royal Prince Freddie has made Year Eleven at St. Augustine's the best one so far for Calypso Kelly. Together with best friends Star and Georgina, and new chums Portia and Indie, LA-born Calypso at last seems to have everything she's dreamed of…or does she? With the national fencing trials coming up, balancing school, friendships, and a royal romance is a lot harder than she imagined. Something will have to give, but what―or whom―will it be? Picking up where Stealing Princes left off, this funny, fast-paced third book chronicling the life and times of Calypso Kelly will not disappoint.
250 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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Tyne O'Connell
29 books136 followersTyne O’Connell is a bestselling British author. Her 13 novels have been published to great acclaim by Headline UK, Bloomsbury USA & other international publishing houses.
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"An eccentric is not trying to define themselves, they're born seeking a different way," explains Tyne O'Connell, and if anyone should know, it's her. The Mayfair-based author and socialite seems to have been torn straight from the pages of an Evelyn Waugh novel; with her cut-glass accent, perma-fixed tiara and layers of pearls.
Despite recently being diagnosed with a brain tumor, O'Connell has continued to embrace the extraordinary.”
In 2015 HRH as patron of the historic Eccentrics Club awarded her the title of “Most Eccentric British Thinker” based on her research into the 17th C when Eccentricity became the quintessential aspects of the British character. Her extraordinary life has been featured in TV documentaries & feature-spreads in Vogue UK, Elle & most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph UK wrote: “The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O’Connell’s real life is every bit as extraordinary as her fiction” ELLE UK.
Critics have described O’Connell as, “Enid Blyton of our time” comparing her bestselling boarding-school series, Pulling Princes to “an up to date Mallory Towers”. The first four books in the series are set in a fictionalised Eton College &St Mary’s Ascot near Windsor Castle and based on her three children’s experiences at boarding school & Oxford as well as her own extraordinary life in Mayfair.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy, her favourite chore as a child was collecting eggs from the hens for sixpence writing & reading. She was told by teachers & family she would be an author from age eight. Her first bestselling book was Sex, Lies & Litigation, pub1996 Headline to rave reviews.
Shes spent all her life in Mayfair where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area is at the heart of her ancestry & many of her books. She writes about all things Mayfair for mayfaireccentrics.com, & elsewhere. Visit her at www.tyneoconnell.com & follow her on Instagram @tyneoconnell
O'Connell was educated by elderly Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diploma or Catholic aristocrat - perfectly equipping her for a world that hadn't existed since the 1930’s. It was an unusual Victorian style upbringing & by 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Literature, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned
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http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/...
"An eccentric is not trying to define themselves, they're born seeking a different way," explains Tyne O'Connell, and if anyone should know, it's her. The Mayfair-based author and socialite seems to have been torn straight from the pages of an Evelyn Waugh novel; with her cut-glass accent, perma-fixed tiara and layers of pearls.
Despite recently being diagnosed with a brain tumor, O'Connell has continued to embrace the extraordinary.”
In 2015 HRH as patron of the historic Eccentrics Club awarded her the title of “Most Eccentric British Thinker” based on her research into the 17th C when Eccentricity became the quintessential aspects of the British character. Her extraordinary life has been featured in TV documentaries & feature-spreads in Vogue UK, Elle & most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph UK wrote: “The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O’Connell’s real life is every bit as extraordinary as her fiction” ELLE UK.
Critics have described O’Connell as, “Enid Blyton of our time” comparing her bestselling boarding-school series, Pulling Princes to “an up to date Mallory Towers”. The first four books in the series are set in a fictionalised Eton College &St Mary’s Ascot near Windsor Castle and based on her three children’s experiences at boarding school & Oxford as well as her own extraordinary life in Mayfair.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy, her favourite chore as a child was collecting eggs from the hens for sixpence writing & reading. She was told by teachers & family she would be an author from age eight. Her first bestselling book was Sex, Lies & Litigation, pub1996 Headline to rave reviews.
Shes spent all her life in Mayfair where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area is at the heart of her ancestry & many of her books. She writes about all things Mayfair for mayfaireccentrics.com, & elsewhere. Visit her at www.tyneoconnell.com & follow her on Instagram @tyneoconnell
O'Connell was educated by elderly Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diploma or Catholic aristocrat - perfectly equipping her for a world that hadn't existed since the 1930’s. It was an unusual Victorian style upbringing & by 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Literature, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned
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August 12, 2017
This had me giggling like crazy the whole way through
February 16, 2014
The Calypso Chronicles is a series of four books written by Tyne O’Connell with the assistance of teens from Eton and St Mary’s Ascot. While inspired on the life and pupils in these two schools the characters and stories are entirely fictional. The books are published by Bloomsbury USA and Piccadilly Press in the UK
The books are set in England between the fictional all girl’s boarding school of St Augustine’s and the all boys boarding school of Eades in Royal Berkshire, where everyone is titled (the Horrible Hon.’s) or rich in a terribly grand, “its so common to talk about wealth” sort of way. These are the daughters of royalty, rock stars, super celebrities and international world leaders all living together, carrying out dorm raids, secret escapes for midnight feasts, posting YouTube clips, updating their Facebook pages creating sensational headlines and manipulating the media. These books are like being told a naughty secret – like living within the pages of Hello, OK and Grazia magazine for the teen set.
Calypso Kelly, stands out for lots of reasons. Firstly she’s “po” (poor) by St Augustine’s standards as her parents are successful writers in Hollywood and while that might make her well off by average standards it marks her as common at a school where everyone is the son or daughter of aristocrats, celebrities or the Good & the Great. So it’s no wonder Calypso feels like a fish out of water.
This is one of four Young Adult Fiction Romantic Comedy books following the life of Calypso Kelly at an all girls British Boarding School.
“Funny exposé of It-girlschool life.” ELLE GIRL UK
“Bridget Jones for the early teen set.”- WASHINGTON POST USA
“Budding Anglophiles ….will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. Fans of Cecily von Ziegesar’s “Gossip Girl” series and Zoey Dean’s “A-List” series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it”.– WASHINGTON COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES
Give this to fans of Princess Mia and Georgia Nicholson as well as to readers of O’Connell’s previous Pulling Princes (2004). BOOKLIST, USA
It is sure to have fans of the previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA
“Outrageously funny and a serious contender for the teen chick-lit throne.” — THE BOOKSELLER on Pulling Princes.
“A right royal read” THE MAYFAIR TIMES
The books are set in England between the fictional all girl’s boarding school of St Augustine’s and the all boys boarding school of Eades in Royal Berkshire, where everyone is titled (the Horrible Hon.’s) or rich in a terribly grand, “its so common to talk about wealth” sort of way. These are the daughters of royalty, rock stars, super celebrities and international world leaders all living together, carrying out dorm raids, secret escapes for midnight feasts, posting YouTube clips, updating their Facebook pages creating sensational headlines and manipulating the media. These books are like being told a naughty secret – like living within the pages of Hello, OK and Grazia magazine for the teen set.
Calypso Kelly, stands out for lots of reasons. Firstly she’s “po” (poor) by St Augustine’s standards as her parents are successful writers in Hollywood and while that might make her well off by average standards it marks her as common at a school where everyone is the son or daughter of aristocrats, celebrities or the Good & the Great. So it’s no wonder Calypso feels like a fish out of water.
This is one of four Young Adult Fiction Romantic Comedy books following the life of Calypso Kelly at an all girls British Boarding School.
“Funny exposé of It-girlschool life.” ELLE GIRL UK
“Bridget Jones for the early teen set.”- WASHINGTON POST USA
“Budding Anglophiles ….will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. Fans of Cecily von Ziegesar’s “Gossip Girl” series and Zoey Dean’s “A-List” series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it”.– WASHINGTON COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES
Give this to fans of Princess Mia and Georgia Nicholson as well as to readers of O’Connell’s previous Pulling Princes (2004). BOOKLIST, USA
It is sure to have fans of the previous novels rolling on the floor laughing their royal crowns off. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, USA
“Outrageously funny and a serious contender for the teen chick-lit throne.” — THE BOOKSELLER on Pulling Princes.
“A right royal read” THE MAYFAIR TIMES
August 11, 2016
Duelling Princes is the third book in the Calypso Chronicles series. If you like the first two, you'll like this one. Similarly, if you didn't like the first two, you won't like this one.
I think there's a time and place for mindlessly fun reads and this certainly is that. There's a lot to criticize about these books if you want to. Calypso is immature. Freddie is boring. The side characters are one dimensional. I could go on. But ultimately, these books are a good laugh.
The framework of this series is that Calypso, the American student in a British boarding school, is dating Prince Freddie, the British prince. But don't read the books because of that because Freddie is the dullest, stupidest character and he has hardly any time on the page. This series is all about Calypso and her friends going on adventures, getting into scrapes, having fights, sticking up for each other, etc. It is the epitome of what a boarding school book should be.
Part of what attracted me to the series was the fencing element. Calypso is a talented fencer. Since fencing is my new hobby, I loved all the scenes of her fencing. Plus the fencing instructor was hilarious.
The main dilemma in Duelling Princes is Calypso's mother unexpectedly showing up in England, having left her father. On one hand, Calypso's humiliation at her mother's antics is extremely immature - particularly a scene where she and her mom literally run away from Prince Freddie. Her mom is going through a mid life crisis and should be offered some sympathy and kindness by her daughter. On the other hand, viewing your parents as the most embarrassing creatures on earth is such a teenager thing to do. Calypso acts as most youngish teens would (perhaps she's still on the immature side). I could understand.
Duelling Princes and the entire Calypso Chronicles series is great fun to read if you want to get a taste of wealthy British boarding school life. The author is from a very posh background and is the mother of boarding school girls, so I think she knows what she's talking about. It's not a brainy read, but well worth picking up.
Rating: 3.5 / 5
I think there's a time and place for mindlessly fun reads and this certainly is that. There's a lot to criticize about these books if you want to. Calypso is immature. Freddie is boring. The side characters are one dimensional. I could go on. But ultimately, these books are a good laugh.
The framework of this series is that Calypso, the American student in a British boarding school, is dating Prince Freddie, the British prince. But don't read the books because of that because Freddie is the dullest, stupidest character and he has hardly any time on the page. This series is all about Calypso and her friends going on adventures, getting into scrapes, having fights, sticking up for each other, etc. It is the epitome of what a boarding school book should be.
Part of what attracted me to the series was the fencing element. Calypso is a talented fencer. Since fencing is my new hobby, I loved all the scenes of her fencing. Plus the fencing instructor was hilarious.
The main dilemma in Duelling Princes is Calypso's mother unexpectedly showing up in England, having left her father. On one hand, Calypso's humiliation at her mother's antics is extremely immature - particularly a scene where she and her mom literally run away from Prince Freddie. Her mom is going through a mid life crisis and should be offered some sympathy and kindness by her daughter. On the other hand, viewing your parents as the most embarrassing creatures on earth is such a teenager thing to do. Calypso acts as most youngish teens would (perhaps she's still on the immature side). I could understand.
Duelling Princes and the entire Calypso Chronicles series is great fun to read if you want to get a taste of wealthy British boarding school life. The author is from a very posh background and is the mother of boarding school girls, so I think she knows what she's talking about. It's not a brainy read, but well worth picking up.
Rating: 3.5 / 5
June 28, 2009
This book was interesting throughout the whole body, but I highly disagree with the ending, that was so sudden and illogical all of a sudden. That is the only reason I just gave the book a 3. It's about this girl from LA named Calypso, and she moved to Britain, where she studies at a private school, has her friends and boyfriend, and her life seems just fine, except for very minor daily problems. One day, however, her mother moves out of their house in LA because of his dad's Opus, or the 'Big One'and the mother comes to spend some time with her daughter. However, it all makes this whole mess of misunderstandings each leading to another, and Calypse begins to have a hard time with it.
July 16, 2009
I only read this book because it is about fencing. And, thankfully, the fencing parts were pretty good ones. Throughout the book there were some fencing jokes that I actually was able to find funny. And their fencing master was hilarious. But mostly, the book was pretty lame. A fine summer read, I suppose. But for the most part, the story wasn't particularly compelling. Enough that I wanted to keep reading, but not super good. But for a $2 book from Powells, it was good enough. Apparently, this book is the third one in the series, however, I did not care enough to go back and read the other two. It was simple enough that I was perfectly able to understand with out those two.
July 22, 2012
A very funny book and Tyne O'connell certainly kept me entertained in this book! I hadn't realised that there were books before this one and as I normally like to read books that follow on from each other in order, I was surprised when I realised I was reading the last book of the series! This book is all about Calpyso and her troubles with her parents and her ambitions to make it into the national fencing team. Her life being at a top boarding school in England is perfect, up until her mother turns up all the way from L.A because of troubles with her Calypso's dad! Find out all about the perfections and imperfections of Calpso's life in the last book of this very funny series!
February 8, 2012
This third book about Calypso follows her attempts to manage her life while dealing with her parents' sudden and unexpected marital issues. An American in an English boarding school, she simply wants to earn a spot on the national fencing team and keep up with her boyfriend, Prince Frederick. Then her mother suddenly shows up on her doorstep. Prince Freddie continues to be her boyfriend, though several miscommunications put this in jeopardy. When she tries to break into his school, she gets caught in a very compromising situation that could keep her out of some important fencing matches.
October 7, 2013
Dengan begonya aku ngebeli yang ini padahal yang #2 belum baca-____-
tapi ini keren sih, aku sempet deg-deg an banget pas bagian calypso ke asrama cowok. sumpah aku jadi malu dan yah gimana gitu, pokoknya kerasa deh apa yang dilakuin calypso itu.
Dan soal pelatihnya yang "waw" banget itu, aku jadi keinget pelatih baseball di film 42, yah walaupun pelatihnya calypso cenderung lucu dan abstrak sih XDD
aku kurang suka konflik di buku ini karena, err yah tanpa alasan yang jelas aku jadi kurang sreg bacanya:3 tapi at all buku ini baguslah. masih cocok dibaca kalau lagi senggang banget
tapi ini keren sih, aku sempet deg-deg an banget pas bagian calypso ke asrama cowok. sumpah aku jadi malu dan yah gimana gitu, pokoknya kerasa deh apa yang dilakuin calypso itu.
Dan soal pelatihnya yang "waw" banget itu, aku jadi keinget pelatih baseball di film 42, yah walaupun pelatihnya calypso cenderung lucu dan abstrak sih XDD
aku kurang suka konflik di buku ini karena, err yah tanpa alasan yang jelas aku jadi kurang sreg bacanya:3 tapi at all buku ini baguslah. masih cocok dibaca kalau lagi senggang banget
February 5, 2012
#3 in the hilarious Calypso Chronicles series (teen book). Calypso is having relationship problems with Freddy, partly because her mother has separated from her dad and moved back to England! to Clapham! of all places! Even worse, her mother talks to her in baby talk! Poor Calypso is terrified that Freddy might meet her mad madre and takes drastic measures to make sure the twain shall never meet. Madcap hijinks pile up one on the other in this hilarious story.
January 21, 2009
Calypso is such a clueless girl! There were so many instances in which I wanted to strangle her for being so incredibly stupid. By her age, she should know better. This is the third in this series, but despite the faults of the main character, I find these books very entertaining. Great music on the CDs, too.
April 5, 2011
A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! I <3 Freds and Star is soooo funny. Honey makes me wanna piss, and it's just such a suspenseful book. I had to stay up till 3 last night b/c i wanted to see how it ended! I mean I had to see if she got back together with Freds after she was found wearing nothing but a robe in some other guy's dorm! HELLO! I couldn't put it down after that! You have to read it!!!!!
June 22, 2013
hilarious. characters are soooo funny! and I just wanna smack honey, but she's definitely a lot better compared to the second book. I'm a little confused by the next book tho. I mean it seems like Malcolm likes Indie and Indie likes Malcolm, but y does the next book say she's going to be choosing between freds and malc?
March 20, 2011
I wanted to rate this book 3.5 stars, but it won't let me. I thought this book was good not great though. It was kind of shallow but I liked the story like the others. It was very funny though, which is why I decided on 4 stars instead of settling for 3. Overall it was good.
July 23, 2010
This book was okay, but the plot definitely wasn't as good as the previous two books in the series. The humor in this book is better, like when Calypso goes to Eades, but the stoy wen downhill when Sarah showed up.
July 26, 2011
Not as cute as the previous two books in the series, but entertaining none the less. There were parts that were very funny, and Calypso seemed to learn a valuable lesson once again. Now to see how it all ends.....
June 28, 2011
Krisis keretakan hubungan ortu Callypso membuat dirinya jd depresi, terlebih lg hrs slh paham dg Freddie, pangeran pujaannya sekaligus kekasih hati
Callypso jg hrs menghadapi turnament anggar internasional membuat dirinya semakin pusing
Callypso jg hrs menghadapi turnament anggar internasional membuat dirinya semakin pusing
June 26, 2012
These books are fun, though Calypso's lack of honesty and all the miscommunication gets old. I keep thinking she should have learned better by now and then I remember she's fourteen. Of course she does stupid stuff.
July 31, 2013
I'm not sure why I've stuck with this series! One big complaint: All the girls keep including the biggest bully/bitch ( Honey) in all their outings, and she continues to be a jerk. They should just drop her as a friend!
December 25, 2013
This was the first part in the book A Royal Mess which continued the third and fourth books of Calypso Chronicles. It was a good book and the other one in it was Dumping Princes which I will read next.
March 27, 2017
+ third in the Calypso Cronicals
March 3, 2009
extra 1/2 star.
December 19, 2008
OH MY GOD....(SPEECHLESS)
September 23, 2015
Can Calipso cope with her parents marital problems and the National Fencing Championships and school and boys?
March 6, 2009
Yes we know that Calypso is crazy and when you throw her crazy parents into the mix, spells disaster.
October 19, 2010
This book is telling some reality which is great.
but i dont really like the ending.
but i dont really like the ending.
May 31, 2011
I thought Calypso had learned something in the last book but she's just as silly as ever in this one.
June 12, 2012
Really enjoyable book, very quick, and I can't wait to read the last book!
January 19, 2014
3,5
first I was scared because the beginning was very slow but then it got better, it was such a fun read and all the characters were hilarious ;)
first I was scared because the beginning was very slow but then it got better, it was such a fun read and all the characters were hilarious ;)
July 15, 2015
Super fun book, I love the (mis)adventures of Calypso and the gang. This isn't amazing literature by any means but as a laugh-out-loud fun book to read by the pool it hit the mark 100%.
April 22, 2008
I LOVE this book!!
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