Book: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Published by HarperCollins

Purchased for my Nook (256 pages)

Genre: YA: Contemporary

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Goodreads Summary: What? A princess??

Me??? Yeah, right.

Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra.

Is she ever in for a surprise.

First Mom announces that she’s dating Mia’s Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn’t have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

I completely forgot how much I loved The Princess Diaries until I read it for the first time since high school.

I love how it’s told in diary form, which fits Mia so well.  I just love Mia and how awkward she is.  I can relate to unruly hair and not doing well in math and a crush on a really cute guy.  Her reaction to finding out she’s a princess and her dealing with everyone finding out was interesting to read.  It’s very her, but it’s hard not to smile (or laugh) at her thoughts about what’s going on.

This was so fun to read, and I was worried that it wouldn’t live up to my memories of it.  But it did, and it’s nice to know that it holds up really well.  I feel like we get to know Mia really well, and I love her relationship with her mom.  There is a bit of role reversal, in that Mia’s making sure that everything’s okay.  But it’s nice to see that her parents are involved in her life.

Lilly is a little overbearing, but at least Mia made a new friend in Tina.  I definitely liked how Mia realized that Tina wasn’t as weird as she thought.

While I didn’t absolutely love The Princess Diaries, I still really enjoyed it.  It gets a 4 out of 5 for being funny, honest and real.