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Princess Diaries Boxed Set (2009)

by Meg Cabot(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0330517392 (ISBN13: 9780330517393)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Pan Macmillan

review 1: This is one of my FAVORITE BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME!!!! I grew up reading these books and the final book came out when I was in college. I still read it cover to cover in one day! Forever Princess might be one of the best series ending books of all time, and it completes a stellar series about a girl growing up in New York who happens to be a princess.Sometimes Mia makes bad decisions, but they are forgivable and understandable for someone her age and in her situations. The lessons she learns are lessons every girl needs to learn in High School (and maybe college if she's a later bloomer). Mia goes from being a slightly self-centered introvert with a very self-righteous view of the world to a girl who has a gaggle of friends and understands that the world is complex plac... moree that she has the unique chance to change by being a Princess. Meg Cabot is brilliant in her story telling and how she wraps all the loose threads up at the end in a way that everyone loves.
review 2: Well, I started listening to this series because I saw that they were narrated by Anne Hathaway, and I loved her in the movies. Turns out the books are drastically different from the movies. Let's just say they would not be Disney-approved. :) Cabot's teenage-girl voice is so very authentic, and Mia is downright hilarious. But there are also lots of vulgar parts, and sometimes the subject matter is just too "adult" for this adult. Faults aside, I would give some of the books (there are more than ten . . . and Hathaway only narrates the first few, unfortunately) 3.5 stars, but most were 2-3, and the last one was probably a 1. It kind of ruined the whole series for me. Throughout all the books, from age 14 to 18, Mia has been on a quest for self-actualization. It was a coming-of-age story. But by the end of the series I was disappointed to discover that everything culminates in more of a sexual-awakening-equals-coming-of-age story. Plus, by now Mia has written a romance novel (the nasty kind), and there are excerpts of it throughout the 10th book. Yeah, really not what I was hoping for. less

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