While a great idea for a book full of interesting stories, several contradicted the writer's reasoning for writing the book. At the beginning the writer claims to want to show the not so great realities of Princesses that Disney movies do not show. Yet the writer starts off the book with a princess who was quite possibly a myth- as she admits at the end of that chapter. Then she fills pages with modern day princesses but brushes over historical ones that would better match the point the writer intended for the book. The book also had many kinda sorta princesses but not exactly real ones, such as "American Princesses" or Lucrezia Borgias who was not a princess, but the Pope's daughter... not a princess.
While it was an enjoyable book, I think it needed more focus on its original reason for being written.