My Party Princess by Meg Cabot Book Review on Goodreads

Party Princess by Meg Cabot

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book was just as wonderful as the others. The only thing that's different is that as each book progresses, Mia faces more mature issues in the books, so some of the silliness is lost now. For the most part, the books still have the same core things that you've always loved them for though. This book was pretty good, I just had a few issues.



Well, one problem that I really have had with Mia since she started dating Michael is her immaturity. I mean, she really should have known better than to go to Michael's party and do stereotypical party things, because chances are what those things are aren't that realistic. In real life, (if I were her) I would assume that the tales of college parties are probably wrong, or at least wait to see what everyone else is actually doing. She was just acting so immature and me, a couple years younger, was going, "What are you doing?" I just couldn't believe it. And I don't really remember the other books when she was going out with Michael, but I think she did this kind of immature assumption thing before (well as far as Michael goes; I know she does it with everything else). I don't know, but this really irked me (well I guess maybe just because this was the major conflict of the story).



A comment just in general about Mia and the series: I think that the reason people continue to read this book and the series is because of Mia. She is such a personable character, and yesterday I finally realized that there is no Mia Thermopolis in real life. Something about her writing and personal style makes you love her and feel like you are her. GO MIA!



Overall, this book was just as awesome as the others except I was pretty angry with Mia about the whole immaturity thing. Read it if you've read the rest of the series.











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My Sweet Sixteen Princess (The Princess Diaries, #7.5) by Meg Cabot Book Review on Goodreads

Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This review will be short because this is a half volume of the series.

Okay, well this book was semi-dissapointing. In most of the other half volumes, Meg was able to develop the plot AND wrap up the conflict effectively. I felt like the opposite was true in this book. I think that the book was promising until the resolution, which I didn't really particularly like.

Mia is turning sixteen and all her friends want her to have a party. Mia just wants to have a dinner with her boyfriend, Michael. Will she ever get her wish? Soon, her Grandmere (grandmother) plans an elaborate party that involves taking a hundred people to Genovia for a crazy celebration that will be featured on MTV. Mia is so frustrated, and furthermore she thinks that it was her best friend Lily's idea to tell Grandmere about this.

Now this is where problems start ooccuring. Suddenly, her Grandmere calls off the party after Mia's dad commands her to. Now in any normal book, this would make sense. But not in The Princess Diaries. In every book, commands and pleas from others have never stopped Grandmere. So why now? This just really confused me. I mean, it was complete character inconsistency. Another problem I found was that after this, Mia got a surprise sweet sixteen party that she liked from her boyfriend that included everyone she knew(except for Grandmere, who was sulking).

First of all, Grandmere would never sulk and not come, because that's admitting defeat. No, she would have pretended it was all her idea to avoid shame. Also, the whole party idea was really unexpected and rushed and then it made the whole Grandmere backing down from her party idea look like a ploy to make this ending happen. It just wasn't like the other endings. Then, Mia kind of acted super uncharacteristic when she was sort of blackmailing Lily. That is something only reserved for Grandmere! And every time she does it, Mia stays strong in not stooping to such lows. But Mia was just so different . I don't know it was kind of a weird book.

Overall, I'll love any Princess Diaries book I come across, so that's why I rated it 2 stars (it was ok). It was okay in the sense that it was still the same hilarious Mia I knew and loved (at least until the climax), just the plot nhad major misgivings. Do read if you've just finished the seventh and are planning to go on to the eighth because it rveals some things Lily starting to go out with J.P. that are nice to know before beginning the eigth book.





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