A Princess of Landover

by Terry Brooks

Series: The Magic Kingdom of Landover (6)

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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 prestigious girls' boarding school. Mistaya, Misty to her friends, is not pleased with the arrangement. She is forbidden to use her magic for any reason, can't understand why other girls her own age don't revere the natural world, and is too clever for her own good in coming up with activities definitely not contained in the private school charter.… (more)

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davdittrich | Feb 14, 2023 |

Non all'altezza degli altri del ciclo di Landover, si lascia comunque leggere anche se alcuni passaggi sono lenti e noiosi.
Alcuni personaggi andavano sviluppati di più. (

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maxliscia | Aug 7, 2017 |

This was just another tired rehash. About Ben and Willow's daughter.
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

In the end she takes care of everything and learns a valuable lesson about listening to her elders and yet doing exactly what she wants to anyway.

I am not sure I can stomach much more of Brooks' stuff. (

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BookstoogeLT | Dec 10, 2016 |

Good addition to this series, not as engaging or quite as readable as previous Brooks entries in the world of Landover, but still interesting. I do find the character of Mistaya a bit harder to get into than other characters in this series. Apparently, Nightshade is making future appearances in this series, as she escapes at the end. (

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utbw42 | Dec 8, 2014 |

I really enjoyed the series until this point. I was very excited to hear about it and very disappointed with the read. I understand that things need to move on but I did not enjoy the Princess and I was not interested in a Young Adult novel with a flimsy lesson. I found it predictable and dull. (

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sraedi | Aug 28, 2014 |

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The crow with the red eyes sat on the highest branch of the farthest tree at the very back of the aviary, dreaming it's dark and terrible dreams.

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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 prestigious girls' boarding school. Mistaya, Misty to her friends, is not pleased with the arrangement. She is forbidden to use her magic for any reason, can't understand why other girls her own age don't revere the natural world, and is too clever for her own good in coming up with activities definitely not contained in the private school charter.

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Mistaya Holiday has some problems, and her biggest isn't that she is being expelled from Carrington Women's Preparatory. No, her biggest problem as the hybrid child of Ben Holiday, a human, and Willow, a sylph, is returning to Landover and explaining to them what she intends to do with the rest of her life. Her father's advisers suggest that he send Mistaya to the royal library, Libiris, to help with its reorganization and reopening. Before the king has a chance to offer this suggestion to his daughter, Laphroig, a local baron who resembles a frog, asks for Mistaya's hand in marriage. When she gets wind of the proposal, she flees to her maternal grandfather, the River Master, to ask for his protection. He is not happy that his crossbreed granddaughter hasn't been around to see him for over a year, and Mistaya leaves him to strike out on her own. Luckily she has many magical friends, including prism cats, mud puppies, G'home Gnomes, and Throg monkeys to help her on her quest.

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