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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
934 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
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Royal Wedding takes place about ten years after Mia’s dad told her he was a prince and she a princess. Mia is now working, planning her wedding, helping her dad campaign to be elected prime minister of the country (yes, in addition to being prince), writing political op ed pieces for major papers, and trying to keep the press from finding out about a huge family scandal.
Royal Wedding is unequivocally my favorite of The Princess Diaries books (though admittedly, I didn’t read most of the later ones). That’s due 100 percent to Mia herself who has really grown. You can tell it’s the same person – she’s got the same vocabulary and the same social justice agenda. She still wants everything to be exactly perfect and has the tendency to panic over problems big and small. But she’s much more confident, much smoother with the press, and much much smarter.
Many of the characters readers of the old series know and love are back: Mia’s best friends, Lilly Moscovitz and Tina Hakim Baba, who sadly was left out of the movies; Mia’s free spirit artist mother; her overburdened and immature father; and of course, her crazy grandmother and the love of her life, Michael Moscovitz.
One of the things I liked about this book is that each of these characters gets a little more development than I feel like they got in the original books. Mia and Michael have obviously matured along with their friends, but I don’t remember Mia’s dad getting nearly as full a characterization as he does in Royal Wedding. Mia’s mom, unfortunately, is in it far less than she was in the originals, but the scenes she does get are full of tension and she gets great moments to shine. The relationship between Mia’s parents is far more complex than it ever was in the originals.
Spoilery part: Royal Wedding ends with Mia getting married (and finding out she’s pregnant with twins), and it pretty clearly brings her story to a close. I actually don’t like when stories end with weddings because it kind of implies, “Welp, you’re married now, your life is done. We only tell stories about women before they get the slipper.” I’d like to see a character I watched fall in love be in a functioning marriage. I would love, love, love to see Michael, Mia, and Grandmere trying to raise twin babies in the palace in Genovia. Each of those three characters has very strong personalities and very different ways of dealing with problems, so that set-up is a sit com waiting to happen.
This review is part of a larger post on my book blog. To read the whole post, go to https://bookwormstogo.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/two-in-one-review-of-royal-wedding-and-remembrance/#more-160
Royal Wedding is unequivocally my favorite of The Princess Diaries books (though admittedly, I didn’t read most of the later ones). That’s due 100 percent to Mia herself who has really grown. You can tell it’s the same person – she’s got the same vocabulary and the same social justice agenda. She still wants everything to be exactly perfect and has the tendency to panic over problems big and small. But she’s much more confident, much smoother with the press, and much much smarter.
Many of the characters readers of the old series know and love are back: Mia’s best friends, Lilly Moscovitz and Tina Hakim Baba, who sadly was left out of the movies; Mia’s free spirit artist mother; her overburdened and immature father; and of course, her crazy grandmother and the love of her life, Michael Moscovitz.
One of the things I liked about this book is that each of these characters gets a little more development than I feel like they got in the original books. Mia and Michael have obviously matured along with their friends, but I don’t remember Mia’s dad getting nearly as full a characterization as he does in Royal Wedding. Mia’s mom, unfortunately, is in it far less than she was in the originals, but the scenes she does get are full of tension and she gets great moments to shine. The relationship between Mia’s parents is far more complex than it ever was in the originals.
Spoilery part: Royal Wedding ends with Mia getting married (and finding out she’s pregnant with twins), and it pretty clearly brings her story to a close. I actually don’t like when stories end with weddings because it kind of implies, “Welp, you’re married now, your life is done. We only tell stories about women before they get the slipper.” I’d like to see a character I watched fall in love be in a functioning marriage. I would love, love, love to see Michael, Mia, and Grandmere trying to raise twin babies in the palace in Genovia. Each of those three characters has very strong personalities and very different ways of dealing with problems, so that set-up is a sit com waiting to happen.
This review is part of a larger post on my book blog. To read the whole post, go to https://bookwormstogo.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/two-in-one-review-of-royal-wedding-and-remembrance/#more-160
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I loved these series as a teen, but never followed it to its end. This book, though, was slightly disappointing. It was entertaining enough that I enjoyed reading it all the way through, but some of the events that occurred just didn't feel...right for the characters. Ultimately, I was disappointed with the ending for Mia, because I think that ummm she deserves better.
5/5
From the moment I picked up Royal Wedding, reading this book felt like a homecoming. As a preteen/teen who grew up devouring Meg Cabot books, coming back to Mia was like seeing an old friend. Cabot's writing is so fun and easy to read (particularly from Mia's point of view, which is a delightful blend of practicality and melodramatics). I loved that the story kept all the characters I remember loving, and Mia and Michael have always been the cutest couple so of course having this book centered around their relationship made me super happy. However, if you think this is a 400 page book about the stresses of planning a wedding, think again. About halfway through things start to get very unpredictably spicy, and I was delighted by the extra dose of drama (spoilers: little did I know until after I finished the book that part of this was Cabot's clever way of tying in her other branch of this series. You sneaky author! I love it though). But yes, overall it was a wonderful way to have Mia grow up with her readers, and there was just the right amount of maturity mixed in with the nostalgia of the rest of the series. I don't know if it's intended, but based on the ending I would definitely love to see more of these "grown up" Princess Diaries books!
From the moment I picked up Royal Wedding, reading this book felt like a homecoming. As a preteen/teen who grew up devouring Meg Cabot books, coming back to Mia was like seeing an old friend. Cabot's writing is so fun and easy to read (particularly from Mia's point of view, which is a delightful blend of practicality and melodramatics). I loved that the story kept all the characters I remember loving, and Mia and Michael have always been the cutest couple so of course having this book centered around their relationship made me super happy. However, if you think this is a 400 page book about the stresses of planning a wedding, think again. About halfway through things start to get very unpredictably spicy, and I was delighted by the extra dose of drama (spoilers: little did I know until after I finished the book that part of this was Cabot's clever way of tying in her other branch of this series. You sneaky author! I love it though). But yes, overall it was a wonderful way to have Mia grow up with her readers, and there was just the right amount of maturity mixed in with the nostalgia of the rest of the series. I don't know if it's intended, but based on the ending I would definitely love to see more of these "grown up" Princess Diaries books!
mia is funny i love her and
silly and cheesy and a happy ending but exactly what i wanted
Spoiler
i cant wait to read about olivia omg a new princess diaries! and shes black! maybe my sister will read her stories when she grows upsilly and cheesy and a happy ending but exactly what i wanted
3.5 stars.
This was more dramatic than the others in a more interesting way. While I don't find it super believable that Mia stayed friends with ALL of her high school friends (I literally keep in touch with ONE person now), it was still nice to read about familiar people. Michael was very amusing and has the patience of a god. The proposal was a bit lackluster as Mia can't seem to narrate romantic things to make them sound romantic. The sister surprise was actually a nice twist and I liked that there was a new character introduced since Mia never seemed to make any new friends. It ended all tied up in a neat little bow, which seemed to be expected.
I have a little gripe with the narrator in that she clearly didn't listen to any of the previous ten audio books. All the other audio books gave her father and grandmere thick French accents and this narrator gave them more British-type accents. It would have been nice to have consistency.
This was decent enough to earn that extra half star. Despite starting to hate Mia for her obliviousness in the latter half of the books, I think I may miss her a bit. I'll miss Michael more. Heh.
This was more dramatic than the others in a more interesting way. While I don't find it super believable that Mia stayed friends with ALL of her high school friends (I literally keep in touch with ONE person now), it was still nice to read about familiar people. Michael was very amusing and has the patience of a god. The proposal was a bit lackluster as Mia can't seem to narrate romantic things to make them sound romantic. The sister surprise was actually a nice twist and I liked that there was a new character introduced since Mia never seemed to make any new friends. It ended all tied up in a neat little bow, which seemed to be expected.
I have a little gripe with the narrator in that she clearly didn't listen to any of the previous ten audio books. All the other audio books gave her father and grandmere thick French accents and this narrator gave them more British-type accents. It would have been nice to have consistency.
This was decent enough to earn that extra half star. Despite starting to hate Mia for her obliviousness in the latter half of the books, I think I may miss her a bit. I'll miss Michael more. Heh.
As in Forever Princess (#10, the end of Mia's senior year of high school, in which she has matured considerably from #9, beginning of her junior year of high school), it is great to read Mia when she's not a complete headcase (although that is also entertaining!) This book picks up just before Mia's 25th birthday, so she's graduated from college and is a princess pretty much full time. Following up with all the characters from the YA books, as adults, was so much fun. The various sex references (this is not a YA novel! Safe for teens these days though of course) were all sweet & sexy & funny at the same time. Great book. Is she writing another? (Honestly this could have been longer, there were a LOT of different subplots that I would have been happy to explore in more detail.)
A fun addition to the Princess Diaries series. I haven't read any since the 3rd book, but it was fun to come back to Mia's world and see how she's grown up!