The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Juvenile Fiction
HarperCollins
May 2, 2017
Paperback
400
In this compelling and thought-provoking fantasy set in the world of The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine introduces a spirited heroine who must overcome deeply rooted prejudice—including her own—to heal her broken country. Peregrine strives to live up to the ideal of her people, the Latki—and to impress her parents: affectionate Lord Tove, who despises only the Bamarre, and stern Lady Klausine. Perry runs the fastest, speaks her mind, and doesn’t give much thought to the castle’s Bamarre servants, whom she knows to be weak and cowardly. But just as she’s about to join her father on the front lines, she is visited by the fairy Halina, who reveals that Perry isn’t Latki-born. She is Bamarre. The fairy issues a daunting challenge: against the Lakti power, Perry must free her people from tyranny.
WrensReads Review:
I liked this!
Peregrine strives to live up to the ideal of her people, the Latkis. They are all about strength and war and nothing about the arts and the comforts like those STUPID Bamarres. They have concurred those weak-minded worthless people and have made them their servants and have put them in their spots: under their feet.
Peregrine has grown up this way and has never thought about those with the green tassels on their heads. All she has known is her Latki father Lord Tove and her Latki mother Lady Klausine. She does whatever she can to please them. Need her to run the fastest? done.
She never gave much though to Annett, her Bamarre maidservant, or the other Bamarre servants until she is visited by a fairy named Halina. Which is completely weird to Peregrine because only, and rarely to begin with, Bamarres are visited by fairies. So why was she being visited by one?
It’s because she was kidnapped as a child from her Bamarre family along with her sister Annett to join Lady Klausine as her daughter. The Fairy tells Perry that she is the key to freeing her people (which happen to be the Bamarre) out from under the feet of their oppressors (which happen to be Latki).
But what side is she going to be on? The side of her lineage or the side that she grew up believing?
If you have loved Gail Carson Levine’s story telling so far, this book won’t disappoint. If you loved the previous book, which actually happens after this book in the actual time line and not in the written time line, you will like this book well enough.
The Seven-Leagued Boots and The Good Tablecloth make an appearance too which I think I screamed about for ten minutes straight each time they were talked about. Like reliving my childhood over here!
I always will read anything by Gail Carson Levine!
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