The Princess Diaries: Take Two

I was really pleased with this book, as well as the first one about Mia. It's amazing and perfectly captures the lead character's angst while remaining absolutely hilarous. My favorite part has got to be when Martha Stewart helps Mia with her outfit. Read this book!

After seeing the movie, I had to read the book!
Then i was HOOKED!
This is a very good book, as wll as the whole series.

I read the first one a little while ago, and while I found it sweet, I din't think it was that great. I think it just shows its age, and it's even more apparent with this one, for some reason. it's still a nice book, just not that awesome.

Just a really fun read. Poor Mia, how can you not fall in love with her in all of teenage angst. The characters are great, the story line is fun, and the whole novel is utterly readable.

I think this is the best princess diaries book. I enjoyed it the most. Good hijinks and completely identifiable situations. Besides, I love Mia.

This was a good book. I started reading the first book and I really enjoyed it. It is about a girl named Mia that is learning how to survive teen age years and how to survive being a princess. If you are looking for a quick read this is the book to read. You should read the books in order because

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they make more sense.

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Another exciting book about Mia Thermoplos and her boy troubbles and all the other things that she would conciter troubbles.

princess lessons, school, boy friends, and worst controling Genovia. How can Mie handle it all.

It's been a while since I read the first book in this series, and I'd forgotten how funny Mia's accounts of her daily life are. I listened to the audiobook on the bus, and the poor man sitting next to me was quite started by my outbursts of laughter.
Yes, the story is silly and predictable, but Mia

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is charming and only self-absorbed enough to seem realistic.
Also, her homework is harder then I remember mine being.

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I totally didn't mention it in my review for The Princess Diaries but at the beginning of the novel, there was a quote from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I just have to add them because I loved the book and movie.

From volume one:
"Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing.

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If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."

And in volume two:
When things are horrible -- just horrible -- I think as hard as ever I can of being a princess. I say to myself, "I am a princess." You don't know how it makes you forget.

And now, on to more "me" on this sequel... well, considering how I finished it in one sitting, taking only a short washroom break... I think you can say that I enjoyed it. =)
This time Mia has to deal with so much again, while still getting used to the idea of being a princess and everything. Then the whole secret admirer thing kept me guessing. But I figured it out before it was revealed. I just wish that Michael and Mia would just confess already.. it's so obvious that they like each other. It's the cutest thing ever. And then the thing with Mia's mom and Mr. G... so romantic. And awesome. Gosh, I really don't want to spoil for those who haven't read it. This is the thing with reviews for sequels... you don't want to ruin the first books while trying to talk about the current book. Well, book three here I come!

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Mia Thermopolis, the Princess of Genovia, continues her cutesy adventures in this second book in the Princess Diaires series. Book 2 finds Mia in the midst of a whole lot of drama: Mia's mom, Helen, announces she is pregnant with Mia's math teacher's baby and Grandmere tries to plan an elaborate

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wedding for Helen despite Mia's protests. While trying to mediate between her parents and grandmother, Mia is also trying to uncover the identity of her secret admirer: jocrox.
Mia's voice is loud and clear in this book. She is hilarious, self-depricating, and extremely loveable. I found myself hoping all the way through that Michael was her jocrox.

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I read the first one a little while ago, and while I found it sweet, I din't think it was that great. I think it just shows its age, and it's even more apparent with this one, for some reason. it's still a nice book, just not that awesome.

Mia is just getting use to the idea of being a princess when her mother makes a big announcement, not to mention she has to do an interview with a major news show.

Fun, light read. Mia is, happily, not totally self-absorbed like many of the adult Beyond Bridget women.

Mia is pulled into a different place when Mr. Giovanni marries Mom.

This book is the sequel to the book "The Princess Diaries." Mia finds out that she's going to be a big sister soon. The bad part is that the new baby's dad is going to be her algebra teacher! Then, Mia finds out that her mother and her algebra teacher are getting married so that way Helen

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Thermopolis is not a single mother anymore. Mia then sees that she is getting anonymous love emails from somebody. But she realizes at the end of the book, that it's not exactly the person she wants to be with.
This book is full of surprises and can make you laugh on your saddest day. I love Mia and how she expresses herself is very amusing at times. She wishes that her grandmother would stop telling her what to do though. Mia thinks she can handle things very well on her own. I personally think she can't. Mia always does something wrong.

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The beginning of Princess Diaries, book two, by Meg Cabot, continues where Princess Diaries, book one, stopped. Mia is in the midst of her princess training when she finds out her mother is pregnant with her algebra teacher's baby, and they will be getting married in nearly a week. Also, Mia's

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interview with Beverly Bellerieve, a talkshow host, is aired, and Mia is very disappointed with her performance, because she let out a few secrets that got a couple friends mad at her. ...(not complete,134/256)

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Meg Cabot really needs to tone back on the preachiness. The story is good, but she doesn't need to shove her morals down our throats. Mia doesn't seem like a very relatable character. Even before she finds out she's a princess, she's one of those people that are just really out there. I think it

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would have been much more effective if Mia truly was an average teenager.
This is one of the few book-to-movie adaptions where I'd recommend the movie over the book (most movie-to-book adaptions I prefer the movie).

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Mia just can't get a break. This one is also amazing. I admire Meg Cabot's ability to write in the proper "voice"- like an actual teenager, and not like what some square out-of-touch fossil might imagine teenagers speaking.

One of the big problems I have with many long-running series—Princess Diaries in particular—is the point where some books start becoming filler as opposed to actual plot development. (Wait ‘til I get to book seven.) Technically, this should be one of the filler books, but it’s not. I tend

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to see the first three books as a mini-trilogy, and Princess in the Spotlight is a good bridge between books one and three. I like the further insight to Mia’s princess lessons, and how quickly she does have to adapt to the public eye, the romantic subplot is fairly engaging, not to mention the fact that she’s willing to try to be with Kenny. (Also, the continuing references to the “Corn-in-the-Chili" boy is even funnier after reading the whole series.) However, this also shows a lot of the weak points in the series. The constant pop culture references are jarring and shows how much the book is dated (again, reading an “updated” rerelease, the find & replace is really noticeable). This is also the first book where I really start to dislike Lilly as a friend—she’s exploitive of Mia, though not to the extent of Lana or Josh Richter, extremely dismissive, and is actually pretty rude to her friends. (In contrast, Tina Hakeem-Baba is my favorite character in the whole series. She is awesome, that is all.) My other big complaint, which is really going to show for the next few installments, is how fast the plot moves in the series’ timelines (again, we’ll touch on this a little later). Still, for all of the flaws, it’s still an enjoyable book, and I still had a ton of fun revisiting it.

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A Book not to be taken too seriously!

I definitely liked this book better than its prequel. Character development kicks into high gear. Mia is progressing with her lessons, and her struggle with them is probably what prevents her from becoming completely self-absorbed. Lilly is... meh. She's got some serious exploitative flaws that

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make me dislike her as a friend. First and foremost, though, I will always love the romance with Michael. It has its issues and they're not perfect, but they find value in what they have anyway, and I really like that. Good job, Meg Cabot!

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Princess Mia is such a lovable and relatable character which makes the second installment of "Princess Diaries" fun and easy to read. I think almost every girl's dream is to be princess but not everyone looks like one which makes the book a peoples' book, something that is close to people's heart.

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I have no doubt that Mia would be a great ruler to Genovia.

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I'm trying to separate these characters from their movie versions. The names may be the same, but the people are different and, frankly, not as likable. Mia is oblivious and whiny, Lilly is overbearing and judgmental, and Grandmere truly sucks as a person. I adore Michael, and Mia's mom seems far

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more competent than Mia makes her out to be. I'll keep going, mostly to see if Mia gets herself together and if she and Michael figure their relationship out.

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