I just adore her, that's all (and Meg too!). The aftermath of it all is really well done too in regards to her feelings and emotions and her families feelings and emotions etc and can I just say that I love Beth? Like, she was the only one Meg was able to truly open up to and tell what happened without being judged or worried or whatever, and she accomplished it all in such a Beth way that, ugh. This particular book is by far the most plot-intriguing of the series (imo) and some of my favorite moments where with Meg during the kidnapping and how she didn't give up, not once even FREAKING SAVING HERSELF, even though at times, she really, really wanted to. I know she would hate me saying this (because she's a real person in my head) but what an inspiration she is to me. Meg is an original BAMF and one of my favorite literary characters. It was exactly what I needed to read yesterday, what I needed to get lost in and I don't regret it one bit. My brain could not handle any new information or characters and instead I found myself reaching deep into my bookcase for this book because I needed to read Meg Powers once more and see her strength, will and determination to fight in the face of being kidnapped, chained and left to die in the middle of nowhere.
Honestly, this has been A WEEK and though I have about ten library books on my TBR pile and I am reading a really good non fiction book at the moment, I couldn't read any of them yesterday.
Meg, her family, her friends, they are what matter. Some things are a little dated: the tv shows, the technology (no omnipresent cell phones/laptops/iPods). Her relationship with her family, her powerful mother in particular, her friends, her kidnapper, are all painful, and yet her battle to survive and recover her self makes me cry every time I read this book. Her saga from here on, while bloodcurdling, is my favorite fictional hero story. She has hopes for the summer, though, as the last week of school comes to a close.Īnd then, thanks to an assist from one of her own security detail, she is kidnapped as she leaves school. Security has been even tighter since her mother's shooting in the previous book, and Meg's plans to compete are the source of major arguments with her parents and the Secret Service. Meg is in her senior year, restless under the constraints on her ambitions as a tennis player that are the result of being the President's daughter. A warning: this book is not for the squeamish. It's my favorite of White's President's Daughter quartet, a book about damage and the hard road back by a woman who served as a nurse in Vietnam and ought to know. I'm re-reading this book for the sixth or eighth time I'm not really sure.
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