Rating: 3
Description: Calypso Kelly, who readers first met in "Pulling Princes" is back from summer vacation, and she still hasn't decided whether she wants to date high-profile hottie Prince Freddie or the charming, witty, and equally handsome Billy. And when she's stuck rooming with her arch-enemy, Honey, and her two best friends become tight with the amazingly cool new student Indie, Calypso fears that this year is going to be even worse than the last. And when she stops getting messages from both of her guys, that seals it. Calypso sinks into a depression, and when Honey suddently starts acting nice, she's baffled. Does Honey really want to be friends, or is there some other, sinister reason Honey has sweetened?
Review: This second book in the Calypso Chronicles reads much like the first, with a few notable differences. Calypso is still an idiotic but witty character, and in this installment, she is basically the only character there is, apart from the villainous Honey and the aloof Portia. Calypso's friends from the first book are conspicuously missing, despite that their very abandonment of Calypso is one of her main whining points. This series disappoints me in that, while it is all about Calypso's boy problems, there is exceedingly little actual interaction with the boys. I want more of them, if you please. Calypso herself is hard to relate to, because she is so hen-witted. She spent weeks languishing about getting no messages from her two beaux, when they both asked, on separate occasions, why she hadn't been replying to their texts. How stupid can she be? Very, it would seem. Despite its shortcomings, however, "Stealing Princes" has its own boarding school charm, and there aren't many books like it out there. The book is worth the read if you're bored and looking for something light but absorbing.