A World Without Princes (#2)
by Soman Chainani
Date Read: 11/17/16
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
I’m going to start by talking about the length of this book.
It was over 400 pages. Do you know how heavy that is to carry back and forth
from work? How hard it is to keep a book that size opened and on the correct
page while you’re eating lunch? I lugged this sucked around for WEEKS because
my only reading time is during my lunch break at work these days (I love my 2-year-old
to pieces, but she definitely has drastically changed my life)!
There were times I felt like this book kind of dragged on…but
that’s easy to do when you’re 400+ pages. About 300 pages in I was ready for
answers. I had a wait a little longer
until things started piecing together and much longer for Agatha to put it all
together. However, the positive to the length of these books is that nothing
feels instantaneous. There is NO insta-anything. Everything is very believable
through both books.
I also felt like I was able to relate to Sophie a little
more in this book. Or at least I understood her motives more in this book than
the first. I couldn’t stand her in the first one. I still don’t condone what
she did, but at least she had good intentions (for herself anyway). The only thing I wasn’t happy about was how
long it took for Agatha to figure it out.
Sure, it had more impact having her make the realization at that point,
but as the reader who has known since the beginning of the book, it was super
frustrating. It would have almost been better if this book was told only from
Agatha’s POV and we hadn’t known.
I also wasn’t a fan of how quickly Agatha and Tedros lost
trust for each other. And did the honestly never think Sophie’s name when the
mentioned the pink spell? I mean, honestly!
I did enjoy Agatha’s relationship with the witches. I really
enjoyed every time the 4 of them got together. It also showed that good and
evil can work together. There are blurred lines. Not everyone is black or
white.
I thought it was an interesting concept that the towers of
Good and Evil became Girls and Boys. It was also interesting how quickly they
hated each other – though I suppose if I was evicted as rudely as the boys
were, I’d be pretty upset also.
I think the concept that the author is working around about
love vs friendship is so unique. Everyone always thinks you can’t have these
best friends anymore once you get married. I love one of my best guy friends
when I got married. So I’m really interested to see how this works out in the end.
