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A Princess of Roumania (Hardcover)

by Paul Park (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (18 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765310961
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765310965
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,430,929 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art...immediately appealing...A huge achievement." -- John Crowely

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This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is actually true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town. The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany. This is the story of how Miranda - with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda - is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Weird but interesting ..., 16 Jul 2006
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Princess of Roumania (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first book in a series about Miranda Popescu, a teenager growing up in Massachusets in our world, knowing herself to have been adopted but not realising that she was born in a completely different reality. In the place where Miranda comes from the Roumanian Empire is a great power and she is a princess of Roumania.

The series currently comprises four books which are, in order

1) A Princess of Roumania
2) The Tourmaline
3) The White Tyger
4) The Hidden World

In Miranda's home reality, science and technology are far behind our own, but magic and sorcery, though illegal, are much more powerful. Some strange catastrophe, apparently a natural disaster though the details and date are not described in the book, has destroyed the British Isles at a point in history late enough that some of the settlements founded by British colonists in North America exist, including New York, but early enough that neither the USA nor Canada as we know them have come into existence and much of the North American continent is wilderness. The Roumanian Empire, which used to strech form the Black Sea to he Adriatic and from, Macedonia to Hungary, is under threat from the greatest power in the world, the German republic.

Miranda'a mother and aunt arranged to hide her in our world for her own safety during a period of political upheaval in which her father was killed. At least two evil magic users are searching for her, seeking to use her for their own ends. At the start of the book one of them, Baroness Nicola Ceaucescu, finds Miranda and sends her minions to Massachusets in an attempt to capture her.

People and creatures travelling between our world and Miranda's are often transformed when passing between the worlds and may change sex, or from human to animal and back. Miranda and her two best friends suddenly find themselves in her home reality, all tranformed in different ways and struggling to make their way through the wilderness where Massachusets would be in our world. They do not know which of the people they meet may be friends and which are enemies.

This is a very strange book and in places a little hard to read. However, it can be very exiting and is always interesting.
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Why bother with an alternate world, 28 Jul 2006
By bob (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Princess of Roumania (Mass Market Paperback)
The alternate world story is a chance for comparisons of our Earth and a 'might have been'. Sometimes it can be humourous - as with Kieth Laumer. A Princess of Roumania tranports its heroine to an alternate Earth, but then just makes it a magic fantasy world story with no commonality with our Earth.
So what was the point of making it an alternate world in the first place? I don't known the answer and I was sorry I wasted my money on this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars OK but not brilliant, 18 Sep 2007
By Gareth Wilson "drosdelnoch2" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Princess of Roumania (Paperback)
A different type of parallel universe book and one that I feel a number of readers may have a hard time getting to grips with but what makes this tale is the way in which the principle protagonist interacts throughout the world and her relationships with her friends from our own timeline. Inventive to a certain degree the tale does get confused at certain points but has set itself up for subsequent novels although Im not sure how unique a tale this will be when transposed over a series or if it will become old hat very quickly. I hope that Paul does a spectacular job with the second novel to correct the problems that I had with this first installment.
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