The Unfalse Prince

So we have nearly made it through an entire year of high school, and we are finally on the last blog post of the year. The struggle has been real. The book I finished for this blog is The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson. I know, I know I had been reading Game of Thrones and now I switch to a book that won an award as a middle schooler’s book. What am I thinking? I had heard of this book a long time ago and really wanted to read it, I somehow forgot about it and know I remembered and read it. The author is not really all that well known and I had never heard of her before but I decided to read the book anyway and boy am I glad I did. The concept of the story is amazing (there may be some slight spoilers in the next few sentences) it is about an orphan boy , who may or may not be the prince) is taken in by a man looking to find a boy who looks and act enough like the actual prince that he can rule the country through. Since one of the boys he chooses for this role is the actual prince you can imagine this doesn't go too terrifically amazing. At the end of the story the crazy guy who buys orphans so he can rule a country ends up in jail, sound like a Disney movie yet, and the real prince becomes the king.

Now you see the main points of the story, but author Jennifer A. Nielson puts a ridiculous amount of detail into this story. The reason no one knows if the real prince is dead or alive, is the fact that a ship he was supposed to be on was attacked by pirates and sunk, no survivors were found but they never found the princes body. That was because the prince was never on that ship he had snuck away and was living in a church when his father the king found him, his father disowned him and told the nation his son was dead to avoid going to war. Disowned him. I know most of our parents, aka all, would never do that, yet this king believes it is necessary.  Well his dad was VERY nice and kind to him, so nice he never even told his wife that their son was still alive, if I remember correctly the queen ends up dying because of this somehow, while the son is still out there somewhere living in an orphanage. Then the entire family is assassinated by the crazy man who wants to rule the country through a fake prince who is really an orphan. This might have made the real prince slightly angry at the crazy man, and it also gave him a reason to put the crazy man in jail. All in all this is a book that goes into great detail about every part of the story and a book like that is always fun to read.