The Princess Trials
A Young Adult Dystopian Romance
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Narrated by:
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Stacey Glemboski
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Written by:
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Cordelia K Castel
About this listen
Thirty young women. A handsome prince. A battle to the death.
Water is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is divided into kingdoms ruled by royal elites.
Born into the lowest Echelon of the Kingdom of Phangloria, 16-year-old Zea Calico faces a life of hunger, thirst, and toil. The only way out of this drudgery is revolution, and Zea is desperate to help the cause.
When the palace calls for candidates to compete to marry Prince Kevon, Zea joins the Princess Trials to search the palace for weaknesses.
The trials should be a fairytale of sumptuous meals, ballgowns, and romance, but one misplaced word causes Zea to attract the Prince’s attention. When Zea uncovers the man beneath Prince Kevon’s public facade, she is at risk of falling in love and losing sight of her mission.
But the televised beauty pageant turns deadly, and Zea must fight for survival.
Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Selection, this exciting tale of courage, intrigue, and betrayal will have you listening for hours.
©2020 Cordelia Castel (P)2020 Cordelia CastelWhat listeners say about The Princess Trials
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- Coiteux Jessica
- 2021-09-17
Teenage romance
I love this book. It was a great young adult romance. If you are a fan of the "Red Queen" you will probably love this story. It also has a "hunger game" feel at some point.
The characters are elaborate and I could relate to my teenage years. Stacey Glemboski is doing a good job to bring this book to life and I enjoy her reading.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-05-08
A story with a strong heroine
The main character Isn’t a fainting violet, there are no wallflowers in this tale. I like the combination of characters that participate In the games.
It’s not all about beauty, it’s cut throat- and the heroine has to figure out the politics she *thought* she understood as she quickly realizes she’s caught up in a much bigger web that she realized.
The performance is smooth, very easy to listen to.
I am jumping right to book 2 and loving it.
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- Shanliz
- 2022-06-12
Hunger Games meets Handmaid's Tale
I really liked it! There are some criticisms about it being too similar to other books, but I think it's a pretty good dystopian YA novel.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Emma
- 2023-09-08
Hate the main character.
Honestly. My biggest issue is our main girl. In cause you forget what her mission is, don’t worry she will let you know at least once if not twice per chapter.
She also will remind you every chance she gets how she’s in love with dude she has never really talked to. Her love for dude at home is a hard sale as we never build on their relationship before she leaves.
She is also so unaware of anything outside her region that it means every thing is explained to her by someone else. Which means it’s also explained to us the reader like we are stupid too since everyone treats her like an idiot.
There is a saying show don’t tell. Which sure is easier in a show then a book.
I think of other books where people might find something new, like katniss with hot chocolate but she learns about it through experience and watching other interactions instead of people making fun of her and just telling her what it is and her never even trying it.
This book markets itself as a mix between the hunger games and the Selection.
It’s not that. While you get the girls killing each other to get the prince you miss the nuance of the Hunger Games and the true Romance of the Selection.
It’s a poor try at mixing the two and it just does not work.
The killing of each other is not even with the same motivation as the hunger games. It’s not like that’s part of what they are supposed to do but just want happens to people who get in they way. It’s not a death match, it’s people eliminating targets in sneaking ways. More political struggles then anything else.
Main girl also just can’t learn. Like she has countless experiences where they change the footage to show poorly of her or use her anger to take advantage of her. One would think maybe she would change her strategy. But nope! She keeps doing the same BS and then gets upset that she keeps getting screwed over again and again. She can’t learn from her mistakes and she can’t grow.
Yes I know it’s book one but if you can’t sell your hero within a book then there is something wrong with the development. I’m all for a flawed MC, most great books have one. But the trick is that they use that flaw or that they work to improve themselves. This book they do not. We start and end with the same person.
It was a struggle to finish this book and I will not continue on with the other.
I’m left not caring for anyone in the world, I don’t care about her mission, the love story, any of it. It’s all super bland and boring while trying to be too many things at once.
Then the one time things get interesting and you think they need to get out of the country and maybe come together to fight the bigger evil, to learn how to work with people from a different part of society but nope you find out it was all fake and again a set up to make main girl look crazy and stupid.
The reader did a great job. But the source material was pretty bad.
Do yourself a favour and skip this one. There are other books with flawed main characters who have more compelling goals, more interesting goals and a better developed world.
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