I Am Princess X is the story of May and Libby who, when they were younger, created Princess X. Libby would draw and May would think up Princes X's adventures. 
 One day when Libby was on her way home with her mother, their car crashed and Libby was presumed dead. This is a terrible turning point in May's life. Not only has she just lost her best friend, but her parents divorce shortly afterwards. 
 Three years later, May is visiting her father when she sees a sticker in a window for Princess X. Immediately she begins hoping that maybe Libby didn't die in the car accident. Maybe she's still alive after all. As May starts to follow the trail of Princess X, she realizes that what happened in the past is not quite how she remembers. 
 Princess X started out really bittersweet. You immediately feel bad for May and her loss. The heartache she still feels three years later from losing one of the most important people in her life. Then, May finds Princess X and the story turns into a Gooniesesque search for treasure at the end of the trail (so to speak). I loved the sense of adventure. Since Libby's death, May kind of just got by. She's made new friends, despite always having been shy, but none as significant as Libby. But with the discovery of the Princess and what that might mean in the end, you see May really coming alive. 
 I liked that Princess X was solely focused on the friendship between Libby and May and didn't try to include any kind of romantic entanglement (as if May needed to add anything else to think about while she's searching for clues, right?) 
 I appreciated the addition of the Pincess X artwork within the story. It helped me to understand what May was looking at because, obviously, I got to visually see it too. Kind of pulls the reader in, but past a certain point in the story, it kind of drops off but I kept expecting to turn the page and see another panel. I understand that the artwork coincided with what May found as she searched online for the Princess X story, but I almost feel like the book itself was too hyped up with being labeled a kind of hybrid graphic novel, but to me, didn't really turn out that way. 
 Still, it was a pretty good read.