Läsarinnan

 

Miri lives on Mount Eskel where her family has lived for generations working in the linder quarries. Suddenly, word comes that the kings' priests have divined that the next princess will come from her birth place and that the prince himself will come up to the mountain to choose his princess in only a year. 

 

Suddenly finding herself in the newly started princess academy, facing a harsh tutor, stiff competition from the other girls and bandits seeking ransom, Miri has to do everything in her power to rally the girls together and use the special mountain power to save herself and her classmates.

 

I find the book very cute, starting off with Miri being a bit of an outcast because of her inability to work with the rest of the quarry workers, and ending with an almost entirely new, and much stronger, girl, with the capability of taking care of herself and of her friends. If you want a book about coming-of-age and mystical powers, this is a book for you!

 

Read more about the book here and about the trilogy here!