I Am Princess X By Cherie Priest

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Shelby Kindhart #10 Miss Coleman 8B, 8-1 November 15, 2017 I Am Princess X Truman Report The novel “I Am Princess X” by Cherie Priest is a story about two girls named Libby and May, best friends who created a series of comics starring a made-up heroine named Princess X. After a tragic car crash presumably kills both Libby and her mother, May is devastated to lose her one true friend. One day, she notices a sticker advertising a comic that looks strangely like the princess she invented so long ago with Libby. After doing some research, May discovers an entire world of online comics and fans for IAmPrincessX.com. She quickly comes to realize that the comics are somehow linked to Libby, who may have survived the crash after all. May goes off …show more content…

May unites with Trick, a tech genius, to help solve the mystery of the web comic and its hidden clues. Libby is a very important character because she is the one leaving all of the clues for May to find in the first place. She is very smart to create subtle hints to her whereabouts that only May would understand, knowing that her best friend would be able to figure out the reason she was kidnapped. Two main conflicts in the story would be the Needle Man being as intelligent as he was and Libby being unable to contact May directly. The Needle Man’s smarts helped him track down May and Trick very quickly after realizing they were onto him; his knowledge with technology made it very hard for them to find out anything without being discovered. Libby’s inability to contact May was a big setback because if she even tried to go out in the open public to find her, she would be stopped by the police or found again by the Needle Man. This was the reason she created the website in the first …show more content…

May didn’t have to go and risk her life trying to find and rescue Libby. She could have just read the webcomic and assumed that someone got ahold of their old papers, or maybe figured that Libby had told someone about it before her “death”. May was determined to find her best friend, even though a crazy kidnapper was after her and Trick. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who enjoys some thrill and action when they read. It is very well written and does not have anything too violent or graphic, besides when they are attacked by the Needle Man. It shows strong themes of friendship and what one would do to save a friend in danger, like when May searches for the clues left behind by Libby. It’s a great read for anyone who enjoys a witty, fast-paced and exciting

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