For example, Khemri remarks on page 39 that “I was no ordinary Prince, so of course there would be an arch-priest waiting for me.” Yet there seems to be no logical reason for him to believe this.

There’s never any explanation given about how he’s different from the other thousands of Prince candidates out there, not even at the end. Maybe I’m just not understanding something because of my Asperger’s, but I feel like I’m missing something. But here we go!Įspecially in the first half of this book, Prince Khemri, and everyone else around him, makes a huge fuss about how he’s such a special Prince candidate. Keep in mind that this is subjective, and it’s always hard to find things I don’t like in Nix’s works because he’s just that good of a writer. They journey across the universe, and Khemri slowly realizes that he has a real chance to be the next Emperor, but that it comes at a high cost…Īs always with my reviews, here are three good things about this book and three things I didn’t like as much, starting with something not-so-good so I can end on a positive note. Luckily he has his loyal servant Haddad to help him find his way. Prince Khemri has lived all his life in a sheltered temple, and on the day he comes of age, he learns that A) he has to leave his childhood temple forever, and B) Princes need to be hard to kill because his life is always going to be in danger. I am not a space-opera person (considering that a certain friend has tried for years to get me into Star Wars and has never managed to succeed) but wow, I can’t believe what a fun story this was! Maybe I just don’t want to try space operas because I don’t like trying new things…

I probably would have never looked twice at it had it not been by my favorite author of all time. This was a book that was definitely out of my comfort zone.

A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix