![]() Where Suzanne Collins’ Katniss is judicious and defiant, Nielsen’s protagonist Sage is irritating and insipid. ![]() ![]() But what he highlights and what he skips over leads to odd themes, and when you speak up to suggest something else, he nods thoughtfully but waves them off and continues his tangents. You see, your uncle thinks he’s quite clever, and is introducing you (whom he calls “kiddo”) to an intriguing mystery centered on difficult themes. So let me put it this way: The False Prince is like your erratic chain-smoking uncle’s retelling of The Hunger Games, if the story took place in a medieval setting. I finished reading it since it was short, but I am not the right audience for this book, and to evaluate The False Prince as a young adult novel would be unfair. Let me preface this review by saying that I did not know, when I picked up The False Prince, that it was going to be a novel aimed at preteens. ![]()
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