Title: To Catch a Prince & The Frog Prince
Author: Gillian McKnight
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 422
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rp. 99.000 (Times Bookstore)
As I've promised, a review in English for English books.
This book consists of two stories:
To Catch a Prince and
The Frog Prince, all about the summer holidays of two stepsisters, Helene Masterson and Alexis Worth (MasterWorth sisters). To Catch a Prince told the story when the girls were 16 years old and went to London, England for their holiday and The Frog Prince took the set of one year later, in Paris, France.
Helene and Alexis had been stepsisters for 8 years since Helene's mother married Alexis' father. Both were very different, but managed to be good stepsisters and friends.
Helene wasn't gorgeous like Alexis, but she sparkled. Her hair ran in messy curls down her back. She was as punk-rock as Alexis was preppy. While Alexis wore cashmere sweaters and Juicy jeans with pointed boots, Helene wore combat boots with vintage dresses. While Alexis had added the most perfect tritonal highlights to her black-as-night hair, Helene managed to turn the tub, the dog, and a swatch of her tawny hair a bright, bubblegum pink. (page 6)
The other difference was that Helene was always the brain and loved history and art so much whether Alexis was always the fashionable one. Helene loved to go to museum whether Alexis really loved to shop.
To Catch a Prince
When the MasterWorth sisters were 16, Helene got an internship on National Gallery London and the sisters flew to London. Alexis, who had planned to shop in London but later got a cool internship on British Vogue, found out that besides of the internship, her sister also planned to meet Prince William, the boy of her dream. Somehow, Alexis and Helene then were on a bet to get Prince William's heart. As they slowly operate their plan, they also met two best buddies, Laszlo and Simon, who were an Eton students, the same school as Prince William. The girls then used the boys to get closer to the prince, without any clue that the boys were really fallen in love with them and would be hurt as soon as they knew they were getting used.
The Frog Prince
One year had passed since their adventure in London and now Helene missed Laszlo (who suddenly M.I.A by not replying Helene's emails) so much when Alexis hated herself so much for being so "shallow", as she coincidentally heard her father saying so to her stepmother. Alexis then learned Zen-Buddhism to calm her feeling. One day, two telegrams came. One from Helene's father who lived in Paris with his new wife, an actress named Margot Morganne, invited Helene to have a summer holiday in Paris. One from Alexis' mother, invited her to join her mother on a cruise in Greece. Both made the girls anxious especially Helene, who felt that she wouldn't be able to get along with her new stepmom. Alexis then gave Helene a mission, to catch Parisian Prince, Daniel D'Artois, an heir of the famous French fashion line, Vedette.
Just one day after Helene went to Paris, Alexis got another telegram, saying that her mom canceled the trip. With broken feeling, she also went to Paris to meet Helene.
Helene's feeling was so miserable when she met her new stepmom. Margot always looked at her like she was an alien and she hated her so much. Helene thought that Alexis' arrival would make her holiday fun but then she found out that Alexis clicked so much with her stepmother and soon, Margot gave Alexis an internship in Vedette, which means Alexis tried to sabotage her prince-to-be-catch again (after Prince William). The girls then had a fight.