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Journal de Mia, princesse malgré elle - Tome 11: Le mariage d'une princesse (Journal de Mia, princesse malgré elle
Meg Cabot
3.86 AVERAGE
937 reviews for:
Journal de Mia, princesse malgré elle - Tome 11: Le mariage d'une princesse (Journal de Mia, princesse malgré elle
Meg Cabot
3.86 AVERAGE
Over the last four years, I’ve had this fantastic period of FANGIRLING OVER ALL OF THE THINGS, specifically because two of the three biggest things that were important to me back in high school and responsible for getting me through my really rough patches of bullying and depression were coming back in full force. My favorite anime series has not only got a reboot, but a full rerelease in US for both the anime and manga. One of my favorite groups has been on a major comeback tour with new music and I’ve seen them three times on it. (Fight me.) And now with the releases of both From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess and now Royal Wedding, I get to go back to my favorite book (THAT I CRIED IN FRONT OF THE AUTHOR ABOUT at age 26 on my second greatest day OF MY LIFE) and those characters that meant so much to me when I needed to see someone like me.
I was initially wary of both Royal Wedding (and the upcoming seventh Mediator novel, Remembrance), because I felt that the ending of Forever Princess left Mia in a good place: She’s graduated from high school, she knows what she wants to do with her life, she’s finally back together with Michael Moscovitz (swoons from those of us for whom Michael is and always will be our fictional high school boyfriend), and she’s happy. I didn’t mind the fact that Meg Cabot was going to leave those characters be, with occasional updates from “Mia’s official blog” and I wanted to leave them that way. Because even though I want to see where those characters are these days, I don’t know if I want a four hundred page book about those characters.
I’m very glad to be proven wrong about my wariness.
Coming back to the Princess Diaries series after only five years (I KNOW RIGHT, also not getting into the brain-breaking timeline logistics that the reprints nerfed), this was very much like getting back together with all of your old friends for one last hurrah as the throes of adulthood are suddenly tightening around you. If your best friend was a princess of a small European principality, that is. I was so happy to see not just Mia and Michael again and how their relationship’s only grown, but Lilly and Tina Hakim Baba and even Lana freaking Weinberger (now Rockefeller, surprising nobody). It was one thing to have them be in From the Notebook of a Middle School Princess, but they were largely on the sidelines and didn’t really do much that Olivia would have known about. (We’ll get to that.)
What I really like about picking up with Mia in her adult years is that we really get more of the full brunt of how she’s seen in the general public and the media, and specifically tongue-in-cheek gender-flipped references to William and Kate’s long-standing courtship, to the point where Mia can’t spend the night at Michael’s without the paparazzi all over it. (Side note: I know the “Oh Me-ah, Oh My-ah!” is an obvious pun is obvious, but I’ve seen the Princess Diaries movie like thirty times and that specifically gets used. Between that and Grandmere’s latest paramour…is the hatchet finally buried?) I’ve said before Meg Cabot can be bitingly sharp when she’s allowed to be, so the whole minor subplot of Mia stressing over her royalty rating felt like a more unbridled “take that” at paparazzi culture and the societal and cultural pressures that Mia’s under for being the “only” heir to the throne.
And I also like that it’s not ignored with Michael, either. I don’t think that he gets as much pressure on him to conform to specific protocol (although there is Genovian Consort Protocol, as detailed in Princess in the Spotlight), but he does bring up his own insecurities about being expected to bow and scrape to Mia, who honestly doesn’t want him to be just that either. And I really love that we finally-finally- get to see their adult relationship. Not just in the fact that we can now get explicit references to sex, but rather the sitting down and talking things out and dealing with their impending future and what that specifically means in their case. (Also, can we talk about these two fucking dorks who go around playing roleplaying sex games like Fireman and Alien and Michael getting suggestive with chocolate-covered strawberries? I’m just saying, I can’t wait for Remembrance now. DON’T HOLD OUT ON ME CABOT, I NEED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF NAKED JESSE DE SILVIA.
But back to Royal Wedding, these two fucking dorks.Is it any surprise to anyone that whenever Mia suggests that she’s been thinking about Leah as one of the names for the twins and realizes what it sounds like, Michael is sitting there going “DO IT DO IT DO IT.” “WE ARE NOT NAMING OUR CHILDREN LUKE AND LEIA.” “WHY NOT?!” )
What really took me off guard was how Olivia was introduced into the plot. Having read From the Notebooks… last month, and with the emphasis on how Olivia wasn’t allowed access to the Internet, I was under the impression that her existence had been discovered by Count Ivan Renaldo and was being used as an attack on Phillipe. I actually really liked the fact that it’s Grandmere (well, the Royal Genovian Guard, but Clarisse is taking credit) who stumbles on it and panics over the potential scandal, causing her to leak the news about Mia’s engagement early. Plus the fact that everyone is pissed off at Phillipe for just leaving poor Olivia alone in New Jersey, and this is before Mia and Lilly figure out that Olivia’s relatives were stealing her child support. And I also really liked that although Mia thinks that she ruined Olivia’s life by dropping the “Yeah, so you’re a princess” line (I SEAL-BARKED LAUGHED when Mia says to Michael, “Look I have some experience about awkwardly revealing that you’re actually royalty on someone.”), she immediately feels protective of Olivia and that they immediately connect. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of their relationship (either if Meg Cabot decides to do another adult book or the next Middle School book).
The only thing that I’m not 100% wild on is the undercurrent of the Genovian Prime Minister election, and specifically Count Ivan. I do like that Phillipe finally gets called out on his more destructive behaviors—specifically the womanizing—and that he realizes that he can’t do two jobs anymore.Not so much a fan of the fact that it’s because he’s still been in love with Mia’s mother all this time later and the fact that this ends with them getting back together and marrying. Not just because Meg Cabot RUINED ME by killing off Mr. G offscreen for the set-up (AND MIA CREATES A COMMUNITY CENTER IN HIS NAME brb the feels), but it feels a little too easy for Helen and Phillipe’s relationship? I liked that they reconciled, not so much a fan of them finally getting together again. I am looking forward to Olivia’s new stepmom and stepbrother though. There’s also the fact that everytime that there’s a potential contender for the Genovian throne—such as Prince Rene—their plan for revitalizing Genovia is turning it into a sleazy tourist destination and not so much on the politics. I do like the fact that Ivan (as offscreen as he is) actually reflects a lot of the attitudes of conservative European politics, with his stance on the Qalifi immigrants trying to find asylum in Genovia and how he refers to them in the press. I really wanted more focus on that instead of bringing in his “Crazy Ivan’s” business venture that’s really just there for Lana to be Lana.
(Get out your drinking glasses folks: Royal Wedding doesn’t just pick up on Mia’s story, the entire conflict of Qalif picks up with The Bride Wore Size 12’s plotline with Prince Rashid and extrapolates the entire resulting political situation from there. For whatever reason, I didn’t catch it when I was reading From the Notebooks… but the second Prince Rashid and Ameera were mentioned, I went “HI HEATHER.”
…so if we’re just extrapolating from Princess Diaries alone, All-American Girl, 1-800-WhereRU/Missing/Vanished, the Boy series, Heather Wells, Queen of Babble, and her teen historical romances are all canonical in this universe. Ten bucks says that Remembrance is going to put the Mediator in the same universe.
….i have no life…)
And as I said before, this is like the ideal high school reunion where you’re going back for one last hurrah with all of your old friends and seeing what they’ve been up to in the last few years. Everyone’s back, and it’s great catching up with Mia’s friends as they’re dragged or forcing themselves into the wedding (Lana.) This opened with the triple heartbreak of killing Mr. G off, Tina and Boris breaking up (and Boris is now an international pop star omg I love it) and Ling Su and Perin broke up at one point, but they’re still good coworkers. And we do get to see nearly everyone—even Mia’s cousin Sebastino comes back to design her wedding dress with input from Shameeka (SHAMEEKA I MISSED YOU). Again, I really love that it’s Lilly who figures out what Olivia’s aunt and uncle have been doing, and that she’s still Lilly Moscovitz all these years later. And can I just say that I loved that J.P. got his glorious, glorious comeuppance by being a sadass MRA who can’t get over being dumped by Mia and is still hung up on it years later.
(Sidenote: Mia mentions that Grandmere regularly trolls Reddit under an anonymous account. Oh, if only Clarisse Renaldo really existed and did that. We’d have the entire men’s rights movement eradicated before it could even start.)
Despite my initial feelings of “Not sure if want but I’m still getting this the day it drops” (It’s Meg Cabot. If there’s anyone I am going to automatically buy and read, it’s her and it’s the freaking Princess Diaries. Of course I’m going to have this in my hands ASAP), I really loved it. I loved seeing these characters again and finally getting to see Mia and Michael together and committing themselves to this relationship and getting married and just…I need a moment to fangirl over everything. And while I’m still not sure if I want to read Princess Diaries 12: Princess Mom, I’m not entirely rejecting that idea either. I absolutely loved this and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Mia and Michael.
I was initially wary of both Royal Wedding (and the upcoming seventh Mediator novel, Remembrance), because I felt that the ending of Forever Princess left Mia in a good place: She’s graduated from high school, she knows what she wants to do with her life, she’s finally back together with Michael Moscovitz (swoons from those of us for whom Michael is and always will be our fictional high school boyfriend), and she’s happy. I didn’t mind the fact that Meg Cabot was going to leave those characters be, with occasional updates from “Mia’s official blog” and I wanted to leave them that way. Because even though I want to see where those characters are these days, I don’t know if I want a four hundred page book about those characters.
I’m very glad to be proven wrong about my wariness.
Coming back to the Princess Diaries series after only five years (I KNOW RIGHT, also not getting into the brain-breaking timeline logistics that the reprints nerfed), this was very much like getting back together with all of your old friends for one last hurrah as the throes of adulthood are suddenly tightening around you. If your best friend was a princess of a small European principality, that is. I was so happy to see not just Mia and Michael again and how their relationship’s only grown, but Lilly and Tina Hakim Baba and even Lana freaking Weinberger (now Rockefeller, surprising nobody). It was one thing to have them be in From the Notebook of a Middle School Princess, but they were largely on the sidelines and didn’t really do much that Olivia would have known about. (We’ll get to that.)
What I really like about picking up with Mia in her adult years is that we really get more of the full brunt of how she’s seen in the general public and the media, and specifically tongue-in-cheek gender-flipped references to William and Kate’s long-standing courtship, to the point where Mia can’t spend the night at Michael’s without the paparazzi all over it. (Side note: I know the “Oh Me-ah, Oh My-ah!” is an obvious pun is obvious, but I’ve seen the Princess Diaries movie like thirty times and that specifically gets used. Between that and Grandmere’s latest paramour…is the hatchet finally buried?) I’ve said before Meg Cabot can be bitingly sharp when she’s allowed to be, so the whole minor subplot of Mia stressing over her royalty rating felt like a more unbridled “take that” at paparazzi culture and the societal and cultural pressures that Mia’s under for being the “only” heir to the throne.
And I also like that it’s not ignored with Michael, either. I don’t think that he gets as much pressure on him to conform to specific protocol (although there is Genovian Consort Protocol, as detailed in Princess in the Spotlight), but he does bring up his own insecurities about being expected to bow and scrape to Mia, who honestly doesn’t want him to be just that either. And I really love that we finally-finally- get to see their adult relationship. Not just in the fact that we can now get explicit references to sex, but rather the sitting down and talking things out and dealing with their impending future and what that specifically means in their case. (Also, can we talk about these two fucking dorks who go around playing roleplaying sex games like Fireman and Alien and Michael getting suggestive with chocolate-covered strawberries? I’m just saying, I can’t wait for Remembrance now. DON’T HOLD OUT ON ME CABOT, I NEED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF NAKED JESSE DE SILVIA.
But back to Royal Wedding, these two fucking dorks.
What really took me off guard was how Olivia was introduced into the plot. Having read From the Notebooks… last month, and with the emphasis on how Olivia wasn’t allowed access to the Internet, I was under the impression that her existence had been discovered by Count Ivan Renaldo and was being used as an attack on Phillipe. I actually really liked the fact that it’s Grandmere (well, the Royal Genovian Guard, but Clarisse is taking credit) who stumbles on it and panics over the potential scandal, causing her to leak the news about Mia’s engagement early. Plus the fact that everyone is pissed off at Phillipe for just leaving poor Olivia alone in New Jersey, and this is before Mia and Lilly figure out that Olivia’s relatives were stealing her child support. And I also really liked that although Mia thinks that she ruined Olivia’s life by dropping the “Yeah, so you’re a princess” line (I SEAL-BARKED LAUGHED when Mia says to Michael, “Look I have some experience about awkwardly revealing that you’re actually royalty on someone.”), she immediately feels protective of Olivia and that they immediately connect. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of their relationship (either if Meg Cabot decides to do another adult book or the next Middle School book).
The only thing that I’m not 100% wild on is the undercurrent of the Genovian Prime Minister election, and specifically Count Ivan. I do like that Phillipe finally gets called out on his more destructive behaviors—specifically the womanizing—and that he realizes that he can’t do two jobs anymore.
(Get out your drinking glasses folks: Royal Wedding doesn’t just pick up on Mia’s story, the entire conflict of Qalif picks up with The Bride Wore Size 12’s plotline with Prince Rashid and extrapolates the entire resulting political situation from there. For whatever reason, I didn’t catch it when I was reading From the Notebooks… but the second Prince Rashid and Ameera were mentioned, I went “HI HEATHER.”
…so if we’re just extrapolating from Princess Diaries alone, All-American Girl, 1-800-WhereRU/Missing/Vanished, the Boy series, Heather Wells, Queen of Babble, and her teen historical romances are all canonical in this universe. Ten bucks says that Remembrance is going to put the Mediator in the same universe.
….i have no life…)
And as I said before, this is like the ideal high school reunion where you’re going back for one last hurrah with all of your old friends and seeing what they’ve been up to in the last few years. Everyone’s back, and it’s great catching up with Mia’s friends as they’re dragged or forcing themselves into the wedding (Lana.) This opened with the triple heartbreak of killing Mr. G off, Tina and Boris breaking up (and Boris is now an international pop star omg I love it) and Ling Su and Perin broke up at one point, but they’re still good coworkers. And we do get to see nearly everyone—even Mia’s cousin Sebastino comes back to design her wedding dress with input from Shameeka (SHAMEEKA I MISSED YOU). Again, I really love that it’s Lilly who figures out what Olivia’s aunt and uncle have been doing, and that she’s still Lilly Moscovitz all these years later. And can I just say that I loved that J.P. got his glorious, glorious comeuppance by being a sadass MRA who can’t get over being dumped by Mia and is still hung up on it years later.
(Sidenote: Mia mentions that Grandmere regularly trolls Reddit under an anonymous account. Oh, if only Clarisse Renaldo really existed and did that. We’d have the entire men’s rights movement eradicated before it could even start.)
Despite my initial feelings of “Not sure if want but I’m still getting this the day it drops” (It’s Meg Cabot. If there’s anyone I am going to automatically buy and read, it’s her and it’s the freaking Princess Diaries. Of course I’m going to have this in my hands ASAP), I really loved it. I loved seeing these characters again and finally getting to see Mia and Michael together and committing themselves to this relationship and getting married and just…I need a moment to fangirl over everything. And while I’m still not sure if I want to read Princess Diaries 12: Princess Mom, I’m not entirely rejecting that idea either. I absolutely loved this and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Mia and Michael.
Very satisfying after waiting years for the finale to Mia's story. Childhood nostalgia in its prime.
I started reading the Princess Diaries when I was in grade 7, and I grew up with Mia, Michael, Lilly, Grandmere and everyone. I eagerly waited for the new book, and, as a person who is "self actualized" (to quote Mia) enough to acknowledge her quirks, loved that Mia was a weirdo too. I loved the way the series ended, but always loved it when Mia's blog would get updated randomly over the years. To say that I was excited to find out that Mia et al was coming back is an understatement.
From page one, this book was like reuniting with a friend you haven't seen in a while, but it's like you never were apart. Mia is still Mia, and even though it's been 6 years since the last book ended, the connection to the story was like forever princess was published last week. I laughed out loud constantly, but the story also tugged at your heart strings. I will definately be reading the Olivia Grace books, even though I am for sure too old for them. For those who never read the original series, this book can stand on its own, but is definately all about the little bits that those who grew up with Mia will appreciate. I know there is a new Mediator book coming out, and if it is half the book this one is it will not disappoint. I hope that this is not the last we see of HRH, POG and her Prince
From page one, this book was like reuniting with a friend you haven't seen in a while, but it's like you never were apart. Mia is still Mia, and even though it's been 6 years since the last book ended, the connection to the story was like forever princess was published last week. I laughed out loud constantly, but the story also tugged at your heart strings. I will definately be reading the Olivia Grace books, even though I am for sure too old for them. For those who never read the original series, this book can stand on its own, but is definately all about the little bits that those who grew up with Mia will appreciate. I know there is a new Mediator book coming out, and if it is half the book this one is it will not disappoint. I hope that this is not the last we see of HRH, POG and her Prince
I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER!! D:
I DEMAND ANOTHER SEQUEL!
WAH!
I DEMAND ANOTHER SEQUEL!
WAH!
An extremely fun read with a lot of crazy moments, and it made laugh a lot. I read the first three princess's diaries books but it wasn't that hard to understand. I've read this books like three times and it is a fun time every read!
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While there were some very predictable moments and I wondered how she was friends with everyone from high school, I enjoyed this book overall and the continuation of Mia's story (plus, always love Michael as always). It's a great read for people who grew up reading the Princess Diaries and are now a little older.
Sweet, nostalgic, sort of epilogue-y feeling. Definitely a must read for the series' fans.
This seriously is just as amazing as it was when I read it in middle school / high school, and for that, I am truly grateful. (Also, I've officially finished my first book of 2016!! Hooray!!! I'm still super behind but that's fine!!)
Mia & Michael 4eva, and down with the giant piece of poop that is the film The Princess Diaries 2.
xoxo
Mia & Michael 4eva, and down with the giant piece of poop that is the film The Princess Diaries 2.
xoxo