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Who am I kidding????? Mia's love life is a disaster - and being heir to the throne of Genovia sure doesn't help. Because while Mira's finally got herself a boyfriend,
he's SO not the right guy. The one she really wants is Michael, but he's
not available now he's going out with Judith who clones fruit flies.
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I'm enjoying the continued adventures of Princess Mia, thought it's not the most intellectual read on the planet, more some light relaxation. In this book Mia has come to terms with her Algebra teacher step-father and the impending arrival of her sibling. It's her love life that's causing her problems in this book. She's dating Kenny, her biology partner, but is still crushing madly on Michael, her best friend's brother. The problem is she doesn't have even the slightest romantic inclination towards Kenny, and Michael has started seeing a genius fruit-fly cloner. It's all a big mess, and though Kenny has declared his love for Mia (to her horror) and she knows she has to break up with him, she can't logically do it before finals (she'd flunk biology) or the school dance (she'd have to go alone).
I've not got a lot of sympathy for Mia at the moment, she's being so
entirely selfish about Kenny it's excruciating to read. I'm sure Mia'll
land on her feet, but before hand I hope she gets a good lesson in the
morality of dating. I guess I'll have to read on to find out. |
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It was so long ago that I finished reading the Princess Diaries series that the specifics are a little blurry but here goes. This book, of all of the series, was pretty uncomfortable reading. Mia's 'relationship' with Kenny made me cringe, partly because it was such a familiar situation, but mainly because until that point I quite liked Mia. Sure she was a bit of a wet lettuce, but she had a reasonably good heart and did the right things most of the time. However, when she put wearing a dress to a dance before the feelings of someone she initially liked, even if she didn't love him, she crossed a line I wasn't too happy with. I know, it's only fiction, but when you spend time with characters you become invested in them, so when they become something you don't like, or aren't expecting, you are disappointed. The whole focus of this book was to get Mia and Michael together, and it was a totally foregone conclusion that they would. Of all the Diaries so far this has been my least favourite. It was predictable, and really didn't deal with Mia's relationships in a way I thought helped someone really going through the situation. I don't think books should be problem pages, but I do think that when you're targeting a very specific audience of young people finding their own way through the quagmire of adolescence it would be more useful to either give good role models or, if that isn't dramatic enough, not reward bad behaviour. This book's message was that you can trample over people as much as you want and still get everything your own way. Not much of a message if you ask me.
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