2½ stars - It would have been 3 but the editing of this ebook edition was lousy. Lots of missing spaces, which was annoying but not to distracting & all the letter e's with an accent (such as é) were shown as a question mark (Grandm?re instead of Grandmére).

I found the story had some surprises for someone like me who has seen the movie, such as the presence of her father through almost all of the book! ( )

Super easy, fast cute read. Follows the movie pretty closely (or I guess I should say the movie followed the book pretty closely). I read this to fulfill a challenge for a book club, so I was sort of expecting it to read a little young, which it did, but sometimes it's nice to read a book I can finish in a day :)
The way Mia talks in her journal is endearing, I really liked her and hoped for the best for her even though I kind of knew what was going to happen. It sort of made me feel like I was reading an email from a friend in HS.
Only gave it 3 stars because it felt a little short, and because it felt a little JR High.



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I've read this book at least a bunch of times (8? 10? 28?) and, based on my estimate, the entire series at least three times. Mia Thermopolis is the absolute best and I find, even when listening to this at 23, it still stands strong and immensely relatable. (Although, 13 years later this book has aged a little--Brittney Spears no longer has the relevance, and most 14-year-olds now have cell phones...!)

I listened to this while knocking out a chunk of the AT this weekend, when I--believe it or not--collapsed into my tent and was too exhausted to actually turn the pages of my book (read: touch my phone's screen to turn a page, such a challenge) and loved Anne Hathaway's narration. She played Mia in the movie, and it made a huge difference. I tried to listen to the fourth after this one, but the narrator really bothered me seven minutes in, so that didn't go so well.

This book is golden and I will forever love it. And this marks the first audiobook I've listened to in full since like junior year of high school! Yay hiking! ( )

Independent reading level: 5th grade

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so...I have to read the second book for a consensual kiss?

FINE. I will! ( )