The Silent Princess </i>by Trista DiGiuseppi was a short story about a young princess who was taught never to speak in front of men as it was unladylike. The main plot was the overthrow of her parents as monarchs as their people were starving and desperate.
I have to give it 1 of 5 for the plot skips around. At first it seems to be of the princess's upbringing and her wish to play with her father's toys- objects unnamed bit I get the feeling they were torture devices and sex toys as she states in the story: '- with blood and other body fluids she had yet to now of'. and later: 'the ones in the dungeon, not those pleasurable ones used in his chambers'. Then it switches to the mothers pov and speaks of the her hatred for her unfaithful husband. Then it was the fathers as he 'played' with his prisoners in the dungeon. Finally gets into the main plot of the peasant farmers invading the palace.
The up side of the story is that it was a fast story- I don't think I would have finished it if it was another twenty pages long!!! The downside- I really don't like that the author didn't give any of the characters names. She always referred to them by station.
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