Review: An American Princess

An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This was one of the ebooks I received for free from Amazon's World Book Day 2019. Appropriately for World Book Day, this is a biography of an American written by a Dutch author.

I really didn't find this book very engaging or interesting. It seemed like a very straightforward account of Allene Tew's life, but that is really it. I don't really get a sense of why I should care about her story.

I appreciate that this is a translation, but I somehow doubt that what I dislike about this book wouldn't exist in the original. I have read plenty of non-fiction in general and a number of biographies, but this feels very lacking. I can't imagine that this could be from lack of material either, since she lived not very long ago.

In short, it reads like a boring textbook.

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