This is now the top review on Goodreads for this book and I'm so incredibly grateful that almost fifty people thought my hilarious review from middle school was worthy of praising. It looks like this is truly the end of this series, but it ends on a really nice note. I didn't think it was quite up to the level of that first book, but I enjoyed it more than the second one, Palace of Stone. Readers who liked Princess Academy should enjoy this one as well. This is an enjoyable middle grade/YA adventure with some nice twists to the plot and some good life lessons. To thicken the plot, there's a pending invasion from Stora, a neighboring country. Turning them into princess material is going to be even tougher than Miri thought. To make matters more difficult for Miri, the three girls have little interest in becoming educated and cultured, because that's going to be just so useful in the swamplands. They're especially good at caiman wrestling.Īll of the money to support Miri and the girls is being stolen by unscrupulous traders and the local village headperson. Miri reluctantly travels to the province of Lesser Alva to take on the year-long job, and finds three illiterate, destitute sisters living alone in a linder stone house in the middle of a swamp, scraping by by fishing and hunting. Miri, an older teen now, is on her way from the capital city back to her mountain home when she is unexpectedly requested commanded by the king and queen to be the tutor for three royal girls living in a distant corner of Danland, in a mini-princess academy, so one of them can marry a neighboring king from the country of Stora to avoid war.

which I doubt was originally intended to be a series, but it turned out pretty well. The Forgotten Sisters is a charming sequel to Princess Academy, wrapping up that MG trilogy.

The forgotten sisters shannon hale