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rue 's review for:
The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i'm not 100% sure how to explain my feelings about this book other than me being simultaneously too young and too old for it. i was fully a newborn when it was published, so i don't have any nostalgia for the time period. i'm also no longer a 14 year old girl, so i can't really relate that much to mia anymore, not that i ever acted like her in the first place. maybe that sounds kind of nlog for me to say but i genuinely was nothing like mia as a teenager. frankly, maybe i just wasn't meant for high school in the early 2000s. maybe it's new york. either way, she was not personally relatable to me. frankly, i thought she was a bit of a brat, but in a very accurate 14 year old way, so i couldn't really take fault with it. the other characters were also kinda... eh? but they probably have more development in later novels, i assume. the adult in me gags at the thought of a senior being into a freshman, but once again, i am no longer the target audience.
it was also... very 2000s, and not necessarily in a good way. for a long time, i've been hearing about mia being like... proto-feminist, baby leftist, all that jazz, but for me, it came off as extremely privileged white feminism - once again, though, 14 year old girl. lily's campaign against the "racist ho's" really rubbed me the wrong way, but that is with my 2023 perspective, so...
idk. it was fine. i'm not mad at it, but i'm not sure if i'll ever read the rest either.
it was also... very 2000s, and not necessarily in a good way. for a long time, i've been hearing about mia being like... proto-feminist, baby leftist, all that jazz, but for me, it came off as extremely privileged white feminism - once again, though, 14 year old girl. lily's campaign against the "racist ho's" really rubbed me the wrong way, but that is with my 2023 perspective, so...
idk. it was fine. i'm not mad at it, but i'm not sure if i'll ever read the rest either.