A review of Princess For Hire by Lindsey Leavitt.

This is the kind of book where you always get something from reading it.  That is, you get something the first time you read it.  What I got from it was that it's cool to be you but it's fun to try on someone else's personality or live someone else's life.  I'm guessing that isn't what everyone else was getting.  It was an okay book, a little too predictable for my taste.  In the book Desi Bascomb is miserable at her job (she works at a pet store and-when the book starts-is humiliated by her worst enemy).  One night, while taking a bath, she's looking through the job section in the newspaper when she sees an ad in bright colors that stands out from the plain black and white of all the rest.  At the bottom of the ad, it said, "Call Meredith" but it has no phone number, so she calls Meredith and throws the paper across the room.  Suddenly Meredith appears.  And so, the story really begins.  I tried reading it again, thinking it was really good the first time.  Maybe I should have waited longer, maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to read it again.  My main problem with it was that it's a page turner, don't get me wrong that's great when you read it the first time, but the second time you pretty much remember every word of it so you don’t have the same excitement to read the next page.  It had a sort of boring ending.  Desi is in a dunk tank for work (there's a festival and she's the person getting dunked even though she didn't want to do it in the first place) and, right as she's dunked, she thinks she's drowning.  Meredith comes and takes her away.  That's not the end of the book but the timing is too good to be true.

            Over all it was good, I got what I wanted from it and that's all that matters to me.

            Three out of five stars.