{"id":6374,"date":"2015-08-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2015-08-01T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:59:11","slug":"i-am-princess-x-by-cherie-priest-kali-ciesemier-book-review-missing-friend-comix-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6374","title":{"rendered":"I Am Princess X, by Cherie Priest & Kali Ciesemier (book review) – missing friend, comix clues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Two wreck victims, only one body in the car,
\ndreams of her best friend swimming to safety,
\nnightmares because she didn’t…<\/p>\n

May knew in her gut that the fish-nibbled body found with Libby’s ID wasn’t her best friend, the other outsider who’d drawn Princess X to go with May’s stories<\/a> from grade school onward.<\/p>\n

Nightmares for 3 years, then a shiny new Princess X sticker shows up near their favorite coffee shop – you can start reading their story in a free excerpt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the comic<\/a> that sprang from the world that the two friends created in younger years, but it’s only part of this mystery\/missing my best friend story.<\/p>\n

Have you got the guts to search for the lost keys that could bring your friend back from wherever?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0I Am Princess X \/ Cherie Priest, art by Kali Ciesemier. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0[artist site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: New Princess X art is appearing after its artist was declared dead, so co-creator May is on the hunt, trying to find Libby using webcomic clues and neighbor dude’s tech skills before “The Needle Man” finds them!<\/p>\n

Her best friend and comic co-creator supposedly died 3 years ago, but through her parents’ divorce and moving yet again, May still dreams that Libby escaped the sinking car. In Seattle with her dad for the summer, the teen is surprised to see Princess X stickers and graffiti in places where she and Libby hung out.<\/p>\n

Sure that Libby is drawing Princess X again online, May asks tech whiz Patrick to help her uncover exactly who is behind the webcomic, but his research alerts a dangerous predator.<\/p>\n

Is Libby truly alive and sending Princess X messages to May?
\nCan May and Patrick interpret and follow the clues in the comic?
\nCan they outrun “The Needle Man” before he kills again?<\/p>\n

This novel about friendship blends with a graphic novel celebrating empowerment for a wholly satisfying story about trust, sacrifice, and persistence. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two wreck victims, only one body in the car, dreams of her best friend swimming to safety, nightmares because she didn’t… May knew in her gut that the fish-nibbled body found with Libby’s ID wasn’t her best friend, the other outsider who’d drawn Princess X to go with May’s stories from grade school onward. Nightmares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,80],"tags":[90,22,4,55,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,43,71,27,49,15,217,9,21,219,35,33,58,3,6,53,8,28,84,61],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-royalty","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-superhero","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-washington","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}