In Two Moon Princess by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban, a young girl (who is thirteen in her world) comes to our planet (and is seventeen) and adapts way too quickly to our culture and language.
Two Moon Princess
by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban
Tanglewood
June 2010
Princess Andrea lives in an alternate universe that is a version of a Medieval Spain and her planet has two moons. When the author mentions that she is not yet fourteen, I thought she was far too young for her adventure. But then, she comes to Earth and it is revealed that her land has fourteen months and she is really seventeen.
Her uncle, Tío Ramiro, reveals the truth to her and takes her to a mall, buys her clothes and English books, and enrolls her in college. Andrea can have a conversation in English and understand everyone by the end of the day, which is too unrealistic, even for a book with alternate universes.
By page seventy of the advanced reader’s copy, I could no longer stand the book and have been grudgingly reading along and, in the past two days, have only reached page eighty-one because of the awful taste this book has left in my mouth. I have no desire to read any further because I feel that the author is writing to impress and not to express, which makes this book hateable instead of loveable.
The only thing I did like was the idea that there are alternate universes…Until I actually read it. It sounded cool on the back, but when I read it, it was kind of lame. Still, it’s really hard to nail such a scientific topic, so I’ll ignore the fact that the full moon controls when the door between universes opens.
Oh. Her temper is also kind of stupid and sparks at the times when a temper is not needed.
Stars: 2/5 (I give it two stars for the vivid descriptions of the setting)
Age rating: +12
Tissues needed: None, unless you count the ones to wipe tears of boredom…
