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caitlinemccann's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Bullying
Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Racism
Minor: Cancer and Alcohol
kirstencholewa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Stalking, Alcohol, and Cancer
Minor: Alcohol and Infertility
mishasbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, and Toxic friendship
hello_lovely13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, and Body shaming
Moderate: Fatphobia, Ableism, and Bullying
Minor: Alcohol, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Cancer, and Stalking
yvo_about_books's review against another edition
2.0
“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”
WARNING: it's unpopular opinion time yet again!!
It's true that I don't read a lot of YA anymore, but I needed a book for the lost royalty prompt for the Beat The Backlist Bingo challenge and there weren't many options. Add the fact that I really enjoyed the movie back when it came out, and I ended up actually being quite excited to revisit these characters and read the original story. I sure didn't expect to come very close to DNFing instead! Whatever The Princess Diaries is, it is nothing like the movie adaptation. I don't say this often, but the movie is in this case WAY better than the book. I'm actually glad I never read the book as a teenager, because I don't think I would have watched the adaptation otherwise... Mia is just SO incredibly unlikeable in the book, and I started to hate her more and more with each chapter. The constant repetition, the whining, the complaining... It was just all way too much to be entertaining. I wasn't a fan of the writing style either, with the constant interruptions, random notes and math. I get that this is supposed to be a diary, but it just really disrupted the flow of the story. Nothing much was happening either; the book only covers part of the first movie, and not the most interesting part at that. The characters in general were rather dull and unlikeable, and I confess I only made it to the end because I started skimreading. I guess that it won't come as a surprise that I won't be continuing this series... I'll stick with the movie instead.
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Racism, Bullying, Body shaming, and Cancer
abby_can_read's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Cute book. I enjoyed and I found it rather funny.
Moderate: Bullying and Toxic friendship
Minor: Cancer
izypup's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Minor: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, War, Cancer, Classism, Racism, Alcohol, Bullying, and Toxic relationship
caitlin_doggos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Stalking
emmahe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Cancer
thesicaeffect's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
objetivamente, es un libro de tres estrellas, pero aún así, es un libro muy bueno y yo como adolescente me he sentido identificada jsjs.
el diario de la princesa siempre ha estado presente en mi vida, recuerdo que desde pequeña veía la película, y entre mis constantes cambios de domicilio, lo único que permanecía siempre ahí era el disney channel, donde obvio pasaban la peli. en primero de secundaria descubrí que había libros and i was shocked, siempre los quise leer pero nunca supe donde conseguirlos, hasta que el guadalupe reinas 2k19 me alentó a leerlo, por eso hago tantos book challenges lol. anyways, loved it, mia is a savage.
creo que podría ser un buen libro para acompañar a cualquier adolescente, asi como la película me acompaño a mi por muchos años. meg cabot dijo que su inspiración para el libro era que las niñas tuvieran alguien a quien admirar y con quien relacionarse, y con mia dio justo en el clavo, y no creo ser la única con esa opinión.
SECOND READ:
esta vez escuche a nada mas y nada menos que anne hathaway narrando el libro, was amazing, obviamente ella entiende el personaje y lo interpreta excelentemente. it got a bit long towards the last half, pero nada insoportable
Minor: Cancer