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Summary: Not a "royal" story.
Review: "Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853" was a disappointment. Besides it lacking pages (the story reads 93 pages), I was hoping for more details of her life, besides her impending marriage and marriage day. We only learned that she had long hair, loved animals, and was an excellent horsewoman. Not at all the best edition to this series. I do not recommend.
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Summary: Elisabeth: Her Royal Life Turned Upside Down
Review: Author Barry Denenberg picked a fascinating woman from history for his contribution to the Royal Diaries series. In this book, though, he doesn't have enough. He doesn't go into enough detail to make this a fabulous read. He hints at a few things once or maybe twice, but then just forgets about it. There are so many more thing that he could have written more about, like her obsession with her figure, something we now realize was most likely anorexia, and her thirst for freedom.
It does shed some light on Elisabeth's life, but really not enough.
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Summary: Elisabeth: Her Royal Life Turned Upside Down
Review: Elisabeth Amelie Eugenie is the daughter of Duke Maximillian Joseph and his wife Princess Ludovica. Elisabeth lives a calm, carefree life in her castle of Possenhofen in Bavaria. She loves to horeback ride, write poetry, spend time with her Poppy and live a fun life without any happenings of royal life. Yet her mother wants to take her sister Helene, and Elisabeth herself to meet with Franz Josef I Emperor of Austria. Helene has been chosen as the intended wife and future empress of the giant empire. Yet when the royal party arrives, Franz Josef chooses Elisabeth instead! She only has a few moments left at her beloved country castle, and it seems too late before she realizes what she is leaving behind. At only 16 she is married and become Empress of Austria, which isn't a position she is good at being. She goes through so much, with her irritating mother-in-law, almost having anorexia, and the sudden suicide of her son. Elisabeth died at the hands of a murderer, an Italian anarchist. This book should have been longer, and this was a pretty sad book. This girl, only 16 is thrust out of her very non-royal fun life and now has to perform the duties of an empress, when she dreads every moment of it. I like this book a lot, but it one of the sad books in the Royal Diaries Series.
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Summary: Dull and pointless
Review: Elizabeth never meant to catch the eye of Franz Joseph 1, emperor of all of Austria. He was meant as a bride for her sister, Helene, herself for his younger brother. Yet when Joseph passes over Helene and proposes to Elizabeth, she feels she has no choice to accept. This is the story of Elizabeth's life from days just before the proposal up until their wedding day, and the emotional journey of Elizabeth herself, destined to be Empress and rule beside the husband she never expected to have. Told through Elizabeth's eyes in the form of a journal, this book, in my opinion, was too short and utterly pointless. Half of the entries were Elizabeth writing that she had no time to write, and character's relations to each other were hard to work out. There wasn't enough description, and there were a lot of background references that weren't explained, leaving you in the dark to what was going on earlier in her life.
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Summary: A good new book from The Royal Diaries series.
Review: Fifteen-year-old Princess Elisabeth, called Sisi, is the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria and his wife, Princess Ludovica. She has had a carefree childhood in the Bavarian countryside. She spends as much of her days as possible horseback riding, her favorite pastime. But everything changes in the summer of 1857. Sisi's older sister, Helene, has been chosen to marry their cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. Their mother is taking Helene to meet Franz Joseph, and has decided to take Sisi along in hopes of finding a husband for her as well. But when Franz Joseph meets Helene and Sisi, he decides it is Sisi he wants to marry. Sisi becomes engaged to Franz Joseph, but she is far too young for the responsibilities she suddenly finds herself facing as the future Empress. This is not one of my favorites from the Royal Diaries series, but it was still a very good book that I recommend to fans of the series. I only wish it could have been a little longer, as Elisabeth's diary is only 93 pages.
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Summary: Definitely not the greatest of the Royal Diaries
Review: I've so far loved the Royal Diaries series, so I was excited to find this one in the public library. However, I was very disappointed. First of all, I found it really hard to get engrossed in this book. It took forever to figure out the relations between different people, and the situations that were happening. Unlike the other books, this wasn't a very good balance between the character's events and personal thoughts. There were just so many lists, and more unimportant details. A list of the contents of Elisabeth's trousseau took up almost two pages! Not only that, but basically the only interesting turn of events in the book was the beginning, when the Emperor Franz Joseph liked Elisabeth better than her sister, who was actually his fiancee. The rest of the book was completely details of the preparation for Elisabeth and the Emperor's wedding. The book ended with their wedding day. If you're interested in lists and boring details, go ahead and read this book. If you're not, but still want to check it out, read the Epilogue. It's the only really interesting part of the book. If you're not interested in either, just don't read this book.
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Summary: utterly pointless
Review: Not only am i going to TELL you how awful this book is i'm going to SHOW you how awful this book is. The title "Elisabeth - The Princess Bride" sums it up. She's going to get married. She's a bride. Oh and did i mention she's engaged? That's all you'll learn in this book, she's a girl getting married. No mention of culture, history, anything remotely interesting. She often writes she has no time to write, composes lists of everything, oh and the worst thing is a SLAVE to her husband to be. Her life revolves around her dumb husband who was originally meant for her sister. She is a stone-age example of girls being considered being worth only for marriage and nothing else. No wonder this book was written by a man. And here they are, actual quotes directly from this book that clearly illustrate why you should refuse to buy it.
" I am not nearly as slender as I was when we met in August and he approves!"
" The Emperor (her husband) is gone. He left yesterday for vienna, where there are state affairs he must attend to. I can barely leave my room. I have cried so much since he left that my face is swollen and i cannot allow anyone to see me."
" i no longer have time each day to write the days events in my diary."
"The day was ruined, unfortuantly, by the Emperor's most unexpected rebuke that i was entirely to familar with the way i addressed his mother in my most recent letter."
"There was the matter of my yellow teeth and telling mamma something has to be done with them before the wedding."
"In twenty-four days i shall be married!"
"I don't understand what he wants of me sometimes, he loves me for my willfulness and impetuousness, but at the same time wants me to be dutiful and obidient...i'm gonna make him proud."
"The emperor was there to see me! We had not see each other in such a LONG time, four weeks and I nearly had forgotten how handsome he is!"
-Two pages of a list of clothing would also be listed but i don't want to be responsible for boring you to death.
So there you have it, just some of the quotes that make it obvious that you shouldn't buy this book. Please heed my warning, read all other Royal Diaries but this short book with a stone-age mind set about woman.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Now, when I picked up this book, I wasn't expecting much. It seemed really short, and most of the short royal diaries (Nizhingha comes to mind)have been really bad. Not this one. Elisabeth was great, and rather emotinol story, and the only thing I can really complain about is that it's much too short. Besides from that I have no complaints. I strongly recomned any royal diary fan to read this book.
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Summary: Awesome Royal Diaries Book
Review: This was one of my favorite books in the Royal Diaries series. While the diary portion is not too long (it's 93 pages), I still enjoyed reading all about Princess Elisabeth's engagement and wedding to Franz Joseph I, Emporer of Austria. Elisabeth (whose nickname is Sisi) is a fifteen-year-old princess living a happy and carefree life in Austria. Before her life changed so drastically, she enjoyed horseback riding, taking walks with her father, and writing poetry. When Elisabeth's mother receives a letter from Aunt Sophie one day (the Emporer's mother) inviting her and Elisabeth's sister Helene (whose nickname is Nene), her mother jumps at the opportunity especially because she has been discussing the possibility of marrying Nene to the Emporer. Elisabeth wasn't planning on going, but when her mother got the idea that she should go along because the Emporer's brother, Archduke Karl Ludwig, would be there. But when they finally do arrive at the Emporer's palace, the Emporer falls in love with Elisabeth, and proposes to her soon after they meet. After that, Elisabeth's life is thrown into a complete frenzy as she prepares to wed the Emporer and become the Emperess of Austria. The book also describes her wedding, and includes an epilouge telling about the rest of Elisabeth's life.
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