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teaflow 's review for:
Royal Wedding
by Meg Cabot
This book really did feel like a treat in some parts but ultimately ended up feeling sickly sweet.
All of the conflicts are this big fucking deal until suddenly they are not and feel wrapped up in the simplest way possible.
Apparently Mia has no interest in getting married and has already agreed with Michael that they dont want to get married. We have no reason to believe either one has issues with this until Michael decides lamely that marriage would make things better for them. And of course he has no actual reservations about becoming a royal consort even though he should arguably have some concerns about how that will change his life.
And then they are worried about Phillipes election but we don’t really see him much during the book and his opponent is someone we’ve never met. In the last book I was definitely rooting for him in the election, but almost immediately in this book I was hoping he’d just withdraw. They act as though something has really set him off with the racing stuff, but the explanation that it was to get Helens attention just seemed so dumb and a very weak character motivation. It also makes me like the character less to think that in order to get the attention of his recently widowed baby mama he decides to act out like a man child.
When they mentioned Frank dying I was kind of rooting for him and Helen (assuming he’d abdicate and move full time to New York), but the way they paired them up felt so half assed and did not take enough of a pause to honor her relationship to Frank. I was quite annoyed that Mia didn’t seem upset about his death beyond how it affected her mom. And I cant believe they just had Helen finally decide to move to Genovia. She’s a successful NYC artist, why would she finally want to give that up? Surely, Rocky would have more access to specialized education in NYC than Genovia?
I did like Michael more than usual in this book, but i hate how much he’s always acting in service of Mia. It was bad enough in the last book that basically everything he did was an attempt to win her over, but even with this book it feels like he never has to choose anything over Mia. The role play talk was weird and I found the constant references to arc from him to feel mildly off putting.
I loved that lilly was actually a good friend to Mia finally, but I think her shifting to law made very little sense. Mia treated the rest of her friends like crap and I really wish she actually seemed to value Tina and even Lana. Lana’s shift to Mia’s friend had been so refreshing, but now she just seems like a total idiot. Why was Lilly the one that solved the fashion crisis any of the other girls would have been more fitting and a great way to highlight one of their strengths? And the whole Boris plot felt super random. I had liked them together before but we got zero dialogue from Boris and I hate how mean Mia is to and about Boris when it did nothing to help Tina. Like how the hell does Mia end up agreeing that Boris never cheated when she made Tina feel stupid for still liking him and considering getting back together?
I don’t know why JP needed to be the stalker or the guy from the firm when the IG comment was all the reminder we needed that he’s a garbage human being?
And Olivia. I liked her a lot, because she seemed like the only character that actually had any amount of tact and competency, but a secret sister plot is complex and Mia just picking her up from school and finding her endearing and Olivia being nothing but positive about her new family was such a superficial way to tell this story. The aunt and uncle were straight up the Dursley’s and I had been expecting some deeper motivation from them that never came. We also don’t really get much of her experience at all and after what feels like a very long limo ride with her new sister, I felt annoyed that Mia seemed to only care about Olivia when it was convenient for her. And holy fuck, the plan to just drive to her house and then school and just confront the problem head on with zero concern for the multitude of consequences that could come from trying to remove a random child from their home. A little more perspective from Olivia would have also made her character feel more realistic since she just came across like so perfect.
Mia’s internal monologue was about as annoying as ever and though it did show a growth without changing it too much I really think Mia needed to mature a lot more for this to feel realistic. Her work at the center felt very mediocre compared with her previous interest in writing. And I would have been totally game with getting into some of the nitty gritty about what her job is like and how it affects her relationship with ling su and perin who have to do all the work when Mia can’t be there. I also would have liked Mia to have a lot more talks with her mom if she was going to end up pregnant. Helen deserves a casual moment of snark after all of the comments Mia has made about her mom accidentally getting pregnant. And I had kind of hoped that the wedding itself would have something to do Mia putting her foot down on some things and finding her own way to be a royal.
This isnt specific to this book, but the formatting for digital conversations was annoying and made it annoying to follow text message conversations, emails, and IG comments. I feel like the rules for distinguishing between people and Mia’s own thoughts is not consistent across all types of communication.
All of the conflicts are this big fucking deal until suddenly they are not and feel wrapped up in the simplest way possible.
Apparently Mia has no interest in getting married and has already agreed with Michael that they dont want to get married. We have no reason to believe either one has issues with this until Michael decides lamely that marriage would make things better for them. And of course he has no actual reservations about becoming a royal consort even though he should arguably have some concerns about how that will change his life.
And then they are worried about Phillipes election but we don’t really see him much during the book and his opponent is someone we’ve never met. In the last book I was definitely rooting for him in the election, but almost immediately in this book I was hoping he’d just withdraw. They act as though something has really set him off with the racing stuff, but the explanation that it was to get Helens attention just seemed so dumb and a very weak character motivation. It also makes me like the character less to think that in order to get the attention of his recently widowed baby mama he decides to act out like a man child.
When they mentioned Frank dying I was kind of rooting for him and Helen (assuming he’d abdicate and move full time to New York), but the way they paired them up felt so half assed and did not take enough of a pause to honor her relationship to Frank. I was quite annoyed that Mia didn’t seem upset about his death beyond how it affected her mom. And I cant believe they just had Helen finally decide to move to Genovia. She’s a successful NYC artist, why would she finally want to give that up? Surely, Rocky would have more access to specialized education in NYC than Genovia?
I did like Michael more than usual in this book, but i hate how much he’s always acting in service of Mia. It was bad enough in the last book that basically everything he did was an attempt to win her over, but even with this book it feels like he never has to choose anything over Mia. The role play talk was weird and I found the constant references to arc from him to feel mildly off putting.
I loved that lilly was actually a good friend to Mia finally, but I think her shifting to law made very little sense. Mia treated the rest of her friends like crap and I really wish she actually seemed to value Tina and even Lana. Lana’s shift to Mia’s friend had been so refreshing, but now she just seems like a total idiot. Why was Lilly the one that solved the fashion crisis any of the other girls would have been more fitting and a great way to highlight one of their strengths? And the whole Boris plot felt super random. I had liked them together before but we got zero dialogue from Boris and I hate how mean Mia is to and about Boris when it did nothing to help Tina. Like how the hell does Mia end up agreeing that Boris never cheated when she made Tina feel stupid for still liking him and considering getting back together?
I don’t know why JP needed to be the stalker or the guy from the firm when the IG comment was all the reminder we needed that he’s a garbage human being?
And Olivia. I liked her a lot, because she seemed like the only character that actually had any amount of tact and competency, but a secret sister plot is complex and Mia just picking her up from school and finding her endearing and Olivia being nothing but positive about her new family was such a superficial way to tell this story. The aunt and uncle were straight up the Dursley’s and I had been expecting some deeper motivation from them that never came. We also don’t really get much of her experience at all and after what feels like a very long limo ride with her new sister, I felt annoyed that Mia seemed to only care about Olivia when it was convenient for her. And holy fuck, the plan to just drive to her house and then school and just confront the problem head on with zero concern for the multitude of consequences that could come from trying to remove a random child from their home. A little more perspective from Olivia would have also made her character feel more realistic since she just came across like so perfect.
Mia’s internal monologue was about as annoying as ever and though it did show a growth without changing it too much I really think Mia needed to mature a lot more for this to feel realistic. Her work at the center felt very mediocre compared with her previous interest in writing. And I would have been totally game with getting into some of the nitty gritty about what her job is like and how it affects her relationship with ling su and perin who have to do all the work when Mia can’t be there. I also would have liked Mia to have a lot more talks with her mom if she was going to end up pregnant. Helen deserves a casual moment of snark after all of the comments Mia has made about her mom accidentally getting pregnant. And I had kind of hoped that the wedding itself would have something to do Mia putting her foot down on some things and finding her own way to be a royal.
This isnt specific to this book, but the formatting for digital conversations was annoying and made it annoying to follow text message conversations, emails, and IG comments. I feel like the rules for distinguishing between people and Mia’s own thoughts is not consistent across all types of communication.