Princess in Waiting

Never before has the world seen such a princess.
Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance.
But the politics of bureaucracy are nothing next to Mia's real troubles. Between canceled dates with her long—sought—after royal consort, a second semester of the dreaded Algebra, more princess lessons from Grandmère as a result of the Genovian parking—meter thing, and the inability to stop gnawing on her fingernails, isn't there anything Mia is good at besides inheriting an unwanted royal title?

Ok, c'est dans celui-là que Mia commence à devenir un peu relou. Je comprends qu'elle ait besoin d'être rassurée, normal. Mais se poser 150 fois la question toutes les 3 lignes si Michael l'aime vraiment et est persuadée qu'il va break up parce qu'elle annule leur first date... Bon et elle a pris un peu trop au pied de la lettre Jane Eyre.
Finalement elle a beaucoup moins d'interactions avec les persos secondaires qu'auparavant.

J'ai bien aimé les questionnements de Tina (best perso) et Lilly se montre un peu supportive dans celui-ci (enfin!)

Mia goes to Genovia for the winter holidays where she accidentally causes a major political kerfuffle over the possible installation of parking meters, desperately misses Michael, and worries that her relationship will end before they can even go on their first date.

I'm honestly not sure if I read this book in the series as a teen or not as some plot points seemed vaguely familiar but not all. The humour continues to tickle my funny bone and these make for fun, quick palate cleansers when I need them.

In this installment Mia is extremely insecure about her new relationship with Michael. She spends christmas break in Genovia. The whole time she angsts over what to get Michael for his birthday, and what to do when he inevitably dumps her. And how to stop grandmere from interfering.

The amount of times Mia thinks she will get dumped in this book are astronomical. They are not even valid reasons someone would dump someone. Usually. On some level she does recognize how unreasonable her attitude is. Then again she is dating someone approximately 3-4 years older than her, which makes for a huge difference at this age.

It is hard to love a book when you are annoyed by the protagonist. And boy, was I annoyed of Mia's insecurity! When you are emotionally invested in a series, and halfway down the line, the lead starts to piss you off, it gets awkward as a reader and you don't know whether to continue the series or not. I'm glad I decided to continue because the climax was awesome. Meg Cabot surely knows how to end a book in a way that makes the reader swoon!

Mildly less preachy than the last, but how many times is Mia going to fall for her grandmother's schemes before she finally realizes that no matter what, she cannot be trusted? ESPECIALLY if she's showing some kind of emotion. I work with a LOT of students in Mia's age-range and few of them are as dense as this girl (in MANY matters, not just with regards to her grandmother).

I've decided to classify this series as "crack" fiction (much like the works of Francesca Lia Block and Stephanie Meyer); it isn't written particularly well, the characters are unappealing, and the characters' interactions with each other and the events of the story are unrealistic...yet for god only knows what reason, I "enjoy" it and I usually end up feeling show more better about myself...probably because I see these horribly unworthy "heroines" and realize that I (and most of humanity) am a crap-load better than these people. show less

I am so glad to not be fourteen anymore. Every stupid thing I ever did at that age was pretty much captured in this novel, making it difficult to read and very cringeworthy. I'm glad Mia is with Michael, but all her insecurities drove me nuts. I felt for her, but as an older woman, I also just wanted to smack her. I liked the interactions with her psycho Grandmere and the whole subplot of the parking meters.