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Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel
Written by Meg Cabot
Narrated by Arielle DeLisle
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding—but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare.
For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity, what with living in New York City, running her new teen community center, being madly in love, and attending royal engagements. And speaking of engagements. Mia's gorgeous longtime boyfriend Michael managed to clear both their schedules just long enough for an exotic (and very private) Caribbean island interlude where he popped the question! Of course Mia didn't need to consult her diary to know that her answer was a royal oui.
But now Mia has a scandal of majestic proportions to contend with: Her grandmother's leaked "fake" wedding plans to the press that could cause even normally calm Michael to become a runaway groom. Worse, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia's father from the throne, all because of a royal secret that could leave Genovia without a monarch. Can Mia prove to everyone—especially herself—that she's not only ready to wed, but ready to rule as well?
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Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel
Written by Meg Cabot
Narrated by Arielle DeLisle
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding—but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare.
For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity, what with living in New York City, running her new teen community center, being madly in love, and attending royal engagements. And speaking of engagements. Mia's gorgeous longtime boyfriend Michael managed to clear both their schedules just long enough for an exotic (and very private) Caribbean island interlude where he popped the question! Of course Mia didn't need to consult her diary to know that her answer was a royal oui.
But now Mia has a scandal of majestic proportions to contend with: Her grandmother's leaked "fake" wedding plans to the press that could cause even normally calm Michael to become a runaway groom. Worse, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia's father from the throne, all because of a royal secret that could leave Genovia without a monarch. Can Mia prove to everyone—especially herself—that she's not only ready to wed, but ready to rule as well?
A HarperAudio production.
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If you're a fan of The Princess Diaries, you will love this last book in the series. So good!
Rating: 5Mia has a lot going on: her father has just been arrested for driving his newly acquired Formula 1 race car on a major highway, news of her hitherto unknown half-sister has just come to light, her stalker is making death threats, and the paparazzi want to know why Michael hasn't popped the question yet. When Michael decides to take her away for a romantic weekend in the Bahamas, Mia isn't sure she can clear her schedule -- but she's going to be glad she does!For fans of the series, this is a pleasant and satisfying conclusion, though I was surprised that the author spent so much time on the weeks surrounding the proposal and then jumped straight to the wedding. I didn't mind much, since I have read Olivia's perspective on events in the From the Notebooks of a Middle-School Princess series, so listening to this book felt in some ways like a reread. Definitely recommended for readers who love the series -- and even if, like me, you've skipped a book here or there, you'll have no trouble following the plot if you want to see how everything turns out.
Rating: 4
I truly enjoyed revisiting some of my favourite characters from my youth in a more grown-up manner than the other volumes; as previous reviewers have mentioned, this novel felt like catching up with old friends.
I’m rating this book a ⅘ because even though certain plot points of this novel seemed predictable and contrived, there were still a few surprises. I mean, how could Meg toy with our emotions and end the series like that? The readers need more.
Overall, “The Royal Wedding” was a fun and adorable read that was a tribute to my preteen years. I would absolutely recommend this novel to other adults who also grew up wishing that they were Mia Thermopolis.
Rating: 4I’m rating this book a ⅘ because even though certain plot points of this novel seemed predictable and contrived, there were still a few surprises. I mean, how could Meg toy with our emotions and end the series like that? The readers need more.
Overall, “The Royal Wedding” was a fun and adorable read that was a tribute to my preteen years. I would absolutely recommend this novel to other adults who also grew up wishing that they were Mia Thermopolis.
This was a wonderful book. Meg Cabot is a genius at what she does. Her writing is very funny, always lively and effervescent, and moves along at a perfect pace. She also makes great sympathetic flawed characters. Mia is certainly her best creation. This book was brilliant in many ways. I loved that it gave us a grown-up Mia, but one thing that was a little disturbing about this book was that the character of Mia was SO much the same as she was in the earlier Princess Diaries books. Why not be consistent, right? Give the people what they want? Mia is a wonderful character, and her voice is great, but she seems so unchanged from the books when she was a teenager, that it never stopped being a little icky and creepy to me when she made (veiled, silly) references to sex, babies, marriage, etc. The tone of this book, the language, everything, was exactly the same as the earlier books, so points for consistency, but for me, that was just a bit too creepy at times. While Mia is a wonderful character, and she does seem maybe a little more confident in this book, it seems unlikely to me that she would be so unchanged in the 10 or so year that have passed since the last book. I also think the title of the book is misleading. This is very much not a book about the wedding. The wedding is barely talked about at all, and there are none of the fun preparations that are alluded to in the description of the book. That's fine with me, but why call it Royal Wedding? Okay, I know the answer. It sells more books. But surely it annoys those readers who were mislead by the title and cover. I hate it when publishers do this. So, be warned that if you want a book all about the fun details of preparing for a huge wedding, that's not what you're going to get here. In that sense, it's quite similar to the Fug Girls' Royal We, a book I loved, and which I did not think had a misleading title, but which probably surprised many readers by really not being about the fun of being a royal.
Rating: 4After so many years, it was a sheer delight to get back into the Princess Diaries series. Mia is charmingly awkward and adorable, as always, and while there aren't many surprises (c'mon, Mia, I figured out that twist half a book before you did!), it's such a fun little read! I liked seeing the characters had grown while still being very much the selves we'd grown to love over ten books so many years ago.(As a note for parents/readers: Mia is an adult in this book, not a teenager. She's making adult life choices and getting into adult situations. There isn't anything explicit, though.)This book was received as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program.
Rating: 4An adult sequel to the Princess Diaries series sees Mia, post college, as an adult, but still as neurotic and unique as ever. Grandmere, Lily, Michael and her friends from AEHS are still present, and it is very interesting to see them as adults. I stress the word adult here, as this is NOT a YA novel like previous books in the series, but those who read the books when they were originally published have grown up, and so has Princess Mia. This was a very fun read, and I hope to read more about the adult Mia, her marriage, and her relationship with (SPOILER!!!) her new half sister, and life in Genovia.
Rating: 5Yeah for another Princess Diaries book! Seems like forever since an installment came out. I still enjoyed it after all this time. I read it in about 3 evenings after work. I was surprised to find it's over 400 pages long (it didn't seem like it.) Everyone keeps talking about this isn't a YA novel anymore and I kind of agree. Just in the overall tone of the book I think is what sets it even though it follows the same diary format as the rest of the series (obviously.)Wonder if we're going to see another installment in a few years?? Queen Diaries?
Rating: 4I don't know why I put off reading this for so long, because I really enjoyed it! It was nice to be back in Mia's world and find out what she and all her friends have done since graduating from high school.It was also nice that the characters actually seem to have grown up. A lot of times a sequel set a few years in the future will come out and none of the characters have learned anything or matured at all. But Meg Cabot managed to mature them, all while keeping true to the personalities we know and love. I appreciate a book about an engagement that isn't ONLY about the wedding. There are already a million of those. Mia and Michael's engagement and upcoming wedding is still part of the story, but there is MUCH MORE going on, which made the book a lot more enjoyable and not so bogged down with wedding drama. The ending definitely leaves an opening for more books. I'll read pretty much anything Meg Cabot writes, so I'll be on the lookout!
Rating: 4I love Meg Cabot's ability to bring characters to life, to bring the reader into the realistic, engaging and charming conversation and illuminate a fictional world. While this book may not have had a plot that resonated with me (I'm a fan of her Heather Wells series and don't really do princesses), I thought it was cute and a fun summer read. It lacked a little depth and dimension for me, but I don't think the Princess Diaries series is meant to be a complex one. Overall, I'd recommend it to young adult or "new adult" chick lit readers.
Rating: 4Hilarious, well-paced, and just plain fantastic, Meg Cabot's Royal Wedding is a perfect addition to the Princess Diaries. I loved seeing Mia as an adult, dealing with the stress of her very insane life, while also being madly-in-love with one Michael Moscovitz. *swoon*I honestly could not stop laughing. It was a page-turner. I didn't go to bed until I finished it.If you're a fan of this series, you will SO NOT be disappointed.There were a few plot twists that I predicted, but it didn't take away from the overall joy I got from actually experiencing them.All in all, Royal Wedding is an amazing book. One that I am SUPER happy to have gotten to read. I just hope there's a next one. :D
Rating: 5For those of us who grew up reading The Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis is an old friend. In "Royal Wedding", Mia is turning 25, and author Meg Cabot gives us a chance to see her as an adult, about to be married and assume the crown of Genovia. In keeping with tradition, Mia navigates hilariously through an engagement, a family secret, and a threat to the crown of Genovia. Clarice, Mia's grandmere, is hilariously portrayed in this book. She has much sharper edges than I remember from the earlier books. Of course, I've only read the first five or so and it was a long time ago, so don't remember too many details.Underlying much of Cabot's humor is attention to real issues in today's world: the cultural influence of social media, immigration, and prejudice. While Cabot is never preachy, I admire her layering her light romance with deeper social concerns. While in some ways this book puts a nice touch to the end of a literary legacy, it is also a launching point for Cabot to create a new Genovian story thread for another generation of young readers. I'm not sure this book will be a huge draw to readers unfamiliar with Princess Mia, but for anyone who has read a few or all of the installations of The Princess Diaries, this book should be a pleasurable visit to an old friend.
Rating: 4Funny, entertaining, awesome to read about Mia as an adult
Rating: 5Royal Wedding picks up the story eight years after high school. Mia is still based in New York, still going out with Michael, still close to her school friends and still prone to worrying about things. However, there have been changes in Mia’s life over the years, and more are just around the corner. One of them involves a proposal, which is not completely unexpected. But others, like the discovery of a certain Middle-School Princess, are not things Mia sees coming.I enjoyed the Princess Diaries series (especially the first few books and the last few), but I hadn’t anticipated just how much fun it would to catch up with Mia again. The second Princess Diaries film portrayed a grown-up Mia, but the Mia of the films is not the Mia of the books and it was satisfying to see the adult this Mia, book!Mia, has become.Also satisfying was the way Royal Wedding is such a Princess Diaries book. Mia is older, and her circumstances and perspective have changed somewhat with time, but like her other diaries, this is a story about dealing with family crises, changes and life in the spotlight. ”It wasn’t me,” Lars supplied, from the front seat. “I didn’t tell.” “Of course it wasn’t Lars,” Michael said, having overheard him. “Tell Lars no one is blaming him.” Seriously, if my life were one of those romances novels with a love triangle, Lars and Michael would be the sexy paranormal alpha males, but the two of them would be in love with each other and just ignore me.
Rating: 4Cabot successfully translates her YA heroine into a twentysomething involved in politics, celebrity, TMZ, stalkers, a weird family, and plenty more. I loved it. My 16-year-old, who had left off reading the Princess Diaries around volume 7 or 8, loved it. Really, just a tremendously fun book but particularly in the lasting friendships Mia has maintained, it has a steely backbone.
I'm always going on about the way Pratchett has worked within the conventions of genre (in his case, fantasy) and crafted novels that are not only funny, but are deeply kind, with a warm glow of secular humanism. Cabot is performing the same trick within the conventions of modern chick lit. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” A good writer can make a reader laugh at the foibles of others, but a great writer is one who can also allow us to empathize. The most helpful writers even show us ways in which we can act on that empathy to become better humans. Thus endeth the lesson.
Library copy
Rating: 5I'm always going on about the way Pratchett has worked within the conventions of genre (in his case, fantasy) and crafted novels that are not only funny, but are deeply kind, with a warm glow of secular humanism. Cabot is performing the same trick within the conventions of modern chick lit. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” A good writer can make a reader laugh at the foibles of others, but a great writer is one who can also allow us to empathize. The most helpful writers even show us ways in which we can act on that empathy to become better humans. Thus endeth the lesson.
Library copy
Five years after college graduation Her Royal Highness, Mia Thermompolis has a lot on her plate. She runs a teen community center- well, when she can, still goes out with her high school sweetheart Michael and attends as many political engagements as she can to better Genovia. Even more is added to her plate with negative media attention and increased paparazzi when her father is arrested for speeding and his place in the Genovian prime minister polls drops. Media outlets also wonder when the heck Mia will ever get married while at the same time hounding her for the refugee situation in Genovia and the GMO Genovian oranges. Michael whisks Mia away from all this to their own private island getaway where he finally proposes. Mia is overjoyed until she finds out that fake wedding plans and even a date have already been leaked to the press in order to cover up an even bigger scandal of her father’s before she even returns home. Princess Mia Thermompolis is back! I remember when the first book came out and I fell in love with Mia, her quirks and her transformation into a princess. Now, eleven books later, I feel like we have grown up together. Don’t worry if you haven’t read all eleven books though, you can jump right into Royal Wedding. I love that Mia’s core personality has not changed throughout all of these books; she has grown into an adult and a wonderful princess but is still the same Mia at heart. She still loves her dorky TV shows, has the same friends and a wonderful heart, but she is still nowhere near perfect and continues to make blunders that any normal person would make. Mia and Michael’s relationship continues to be super-sweet and Michael was super supportive, level-headed and hilarious. I’m so glad that Mia had a beautiful wedding and that I have had a chance to see her through adulthood. I don’t know how I feel yet about Mia’s little sister, but she sure seems awfully cute! With writing done in diary style with added texts and other bulletins this is a quick, easy, read, perfect for summer.This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
Rating: 4