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jennielarson 's review for:
Royal Wedding
by Meg Cabot
2020: After spending the last three weeks reading all 10 of the OG Princess Diaries books and ending with this one, Royal Wedding is a total affront to the legacy of the series. The first ten books are not perfect, but they illustrate remarkable character growth from beginning to end of the series. This book ignore all of that. Every character was completely dissimilar to the essence of who they were in the original series, their lives were far too perfect, and nothing of substance happened/nor was this book remarkable in any way. Frankly, I think the Mia of the original series would have been appalled by the 26-year-old Mia of this book. I'm keeping my 2015 review below, but I've changed my mind since then: this book was trash.
2015: Wait, wait, wait, is it 2006 again? I was a Princess Diaries fanatic from 8th to 10th grade, and I was pretty excited to see this book at Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks ago.
There are a couple of things I didn't like about the book-- everything in every character's life is going just too perfectly, and I thought there were quite a few cliches that Meg Cabot could have done away with, but overall it was a very enjoyable book.
One of Cabot's biggest crutches is constant pop culture references peppered throughout the book. I think that's probably a big part about why her books are so popular, but I also believe that her books would be more timeless without them. I didn't ever finish the Princess Diaries series (10 books is a lot of books, and the series was far too drawn out), and I ended giving all of my books away about five years ago because I no longer considered the books relevant.
Do I think it's great literature? No. Will I read it again? Yes.
2015: Wait, wait, wait, is it 2006 again? I was a Princess Diaries fanatic from 8th to 10th grade, and I was pretty excited to see this book at Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks ago.
There are a couple of things I didn't like about the book-- everything in every character's life is going just too perfectly, and I thought there were quite a few cliches that Meg Cabot could have done away with, but overall it was a very enjoyable book.
One of Cabot's biggest crutches is constant pop culture references peppered throughout the book. I think that's probably a big part about why her books are so popular, but I also believe that her books would be more timeless without them. I didn't ever finish the Princess Diaries series (10 books is a lot of books, and the series was far too drawn out), and I ended giving all of my books away about five years ago because I no longer considered the books relevant.
Do I think it's great literature? No. Will I read it again? Yes.