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Bad Princesses #1
Perfect Villains
Princesses don’t break the rules, but they may rewrite them… Every girl dreams of going to the Fine and Ancient Institute for the Royal to learn how to be a princess. But Dalia and Dominga could not be any less enchanted. They are different…the same kind of different. Neither of them wants to be the fairest of them all. They want to join a secret society of villains at the Bewitched Academy of the Dreadful. So, they've devised the perfect plot to ruin the first day of class. It will be the rottenest scheme of all. Something so perfectly awful, so fantastically horrible, so wonderfully wicked that they’ll surely get their invitations to the BAD.
- GenresFantasyMiddle Grade
176 pages, Paperback
Published May 16, 2023
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August 4, 2023
Adorable premise. But it's actually about princesas, not princesses. And I'm tired of equating turkey vultures, reptiles, and amphibians with 'cruelest villains.' We'll see how it goes... it is short.
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"When Mama still read them fairy tales at night, Dominga's mind used to wander-until Mama got to the parts with the villains. Villains weren't perfect. They didn't even try to be. They didn't worry about making mistakes or fitting in. Villains could surprise you."
I loved the theme about the friendship, and the world-building with more characters. I will definitely look for the sequel(s).
3.5 stars
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"When Mama still read them fairy tales at night, Dominga's mind used to wander-until Mama got to the parts with the villains. Villains weren't perfect. They didn't even try to be. They didn't worry about making mistakes or fitting in. Villains could surprise you."
I loved the theme about the friendship, and the world-building with more characters. I will definitely look for the sequel(s).
3.5 stars
July 31, 2024
This book was adorable. It’s about two young ladies who are at the school for young Royals, but they really want to be at the school for villains. They tried playing pranks on the other girls at the school just to have them not turn out the way they were expecting. Is there a real villain at the school? I think so but I also think it’s what helps drive this story. Altogether, this would be a fun series that those who like princesses are going to want to read again and again.
I have a complaint for scholastic. The word princess or princesses is only used three times in this entire book. Instead, the book is a mix of Spanish and English known as Spanglish. Repetitively throughout this book, the words, Princesa, and Princessa’s, as well as professas, are used instead of its equivalent. I think Scholastic is not using the Spanglish in the title of the book and only let it be throughout the pages. We need more diverse books and hiding the diversity under the pages instead of on the cover is a bad move. The princesses may sell more then princessas but if scholastic bothered to use the Spanglish, they might find the book had more staying power in classrooms and on shelves.
I have a complaint for scholastic. The word princess or princesses is only used three times in this entire book. Instead, the book is a mix of Spanish and English known as Spanglish. Repetitively throughout this book, the words, Princesa, and Princessa’s, as well as professas, are used instead of its equivalent. I think Scholastic is not using the Spanglish in the title of the book and only let it be throughout the pages. We need more diverse books and hiding the diversity under the pages instead of on the cover is a bad move. The princesses may sell more then princessas but if scholastic bothered to use the Spanglish, they might find the book had more staying power in classrooms and on shelves.
April 13, 2023
reading this reignited by hatred of the literary world. I know why I didn't have a literary awakening until age 29. personally, I feel scholastic books are terrible for the pedagogy of reading. honestly, I feel the author has great potential, but she is severely limiting herself by publishing via the scholastic method of using the diagnostic reading scale.
July 10, 2023
3.5 stars. Great start to a new series. I loved the idea of princesses that would love to learn how to be villains rather than princesses!
January 1, 2024
I love it so much 1,000,000 🤩⭐
December 29, 2025
Very silly but cute.
August 7, 2023
This review and many more can be found on my blog: Feed Your Fiction Addiction
A super cute story of two princesses forced to go to a finishing school of sorts. Neither of them have any interest in being a perfect princess--they'd rather go to the villain school just up the hill. But every time they try to do something truly dastardly to prove their worth, it works out for the good!
This story highlights the idea that there is certainly more than one way to be "perfect," and that the very best way is to be perfectly who you are. By the end of the book, Dalia and Dominga haven't given up on the idea of being villains, but finding each other in a place where they didn't fit in just might be a greater reward.
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via the bookstore I work at so I could provide an honest review. No compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
A super cute story of two princesses forced to go to a finishing school of sorts. Neither of them have any interest in being a perfect princess--they'd rather go to the villain school just up the hill. But every time they try to do something truly dastardly to prove their worth, it works out for the good!
This story highlights the idea that there is certainly more than one way to be "perfect," and that the very best way is to be perfectly who you are. By the end of the book, Dalia and Dominga haven't given up on the idea of being villains, but finding each other in a place where they didn't fit in just might be a greater reward.
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via the bookstore I work at so I could provide an honest review. No compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
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