Meg Cabot

The Princess Diaries #3

Princess in Love

Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo may seem the luckiest girl ever. She's a princess, for starters. She also lives in New York City. And while she's no supermodel, mirrors do not crack at her reflection. Best of all, she finally has a boyfriend. The truth is, however, that Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrÉe into Genovian society under the slave-driving but elegant GrandmÉre, slogging through congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooches from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny. All she wants is a little peace and quiet...and a certain someone else to be her boyfriend. For Mia, being a princess in love is not the fairy tale it's supposed to be...or is it?

The Princess Diaries, Volume III: Princess in Love

It was bittersweet finishing this book as it was the last one Anne Hathaway Narrated.

Like the others I enjoyed this one and I am really getting into the story. It is different from the movies, but I almost prefer the book version, but that should come as no surprise because that is usually how it goes.

I feel like these are books I would've read in elementary school, but just never got around too. They are simple reads and I don't have to put a lot of thought into them which I like. I am excited to read the rest of them and actually see the outline of these books as I have only listened to the audiobooks.

Molly Sheerer

It was bittersweet finishing this book as it was the last one Anne Hathaway Narrated.

Like the others I enjoyed this one and I am really getting into the story. It is different from the movies, but I almost prefer the book version, but that should come as no surprise because that is usually how it goes.

I feel like these are books I would've read in elementary school, but just never got around too. They are simple reads and I don't have to put a lot of thought into them which I like. I am excited to read the rest of them and actually see the outline of these books as I have only listened to the audiobooks.

Nessa Luna

Saints, why is Lilly so INFURIATING? I don't understand why Mia is still friends with her. Might have liked this one a bit better than the previous one, only because Mia doesn't talk about her nonexistent boobs as much as she did before. (view spoiler)[Also being angry at other people for not being vegetarians like you are is not a good look, girl. Let people eat whatever the fuck they want ffs. (hide spoiler)]

Talia Dominguez 

In this book, Mia struggles to decide how to break up with her boyfriend Kenny.. Mia doesnt love Kenny, but cant bring herself to break up with him. Mia likes Michael,and feels she is leading Kenny on.

Mia begins to send Michael anonymous love letters. Unknown to her, Mia's friend Tina, whom Mia confided in about the letters, has told Lilly about said letters. Lilly eventually tells Michael that it was Mia sending the letters. At the school Winter Carnival, Michael shows her a message on his computer revealing he knows she sent the love letters, and he returns her feelings.

Mia, not knowing how to respond and thinking Michael may be playing a joke on her, runs from her chair. Mia runs into Kenny, who mistakenly believes Mia is in love with Lilly's boyfriend, Boris, and they break up. Mia returns home, is devastated and doesnt want to go to the dance following the carnival, and decides to move to Genovia. Mia's grandmother convinces her to go to the dance, where Mia sees Michael, and they share their first kiss together.

This is where the series should've ended.

In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

Gabriella Parker

Princess in Love really awakens the butterflies in your stomach. Michael and Mia are literally the dream couple and I do hope that they get married in the end.

Giulia Pianta

** spoiler alert **
           This is lovely.
I liked the whole figuring out how to break up with Kenny and getting with Michael scenario, and I enjoyed the situations

I can't really understand why an 18-year-old high school boy would fall in love with the sister's best friend who is 14 and quite clearly is still immature (I mean, she is 14 so she has all the rights to be immature) and with whom he shares very little. I guess I will just suspend the disbelief because the story is so much fun and I love how Anne Hathway impersonates Mia

Kourtney

Minus being a princess and discussions of me modeling, this installment brought me back to high school. So glad that time is done!

Emir Andrés Ibañez

Siempre es refrescante leer a Mia, tan hilarante e inocente que te dan ganas de estrangularla y abrazarla a la vez. Y ese final, me dejó fangirleando *_*

cossette

Анастасия Розова

3.5/5
The book itself was just as two previous ones, but the ending was good. Satisfying. I love Michael so much. He's such a man! Just a good boy and so lovely.
Mia annoys me with her whining and not appreciating herself. But, oh, well, she's only fourteen, I guess, I can understand her. Theoretically.

4.5
As seen on Caity Reads.

I loved this installment in the Princess Diaries series. I knocked it down half a star, because I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the last books. However, I still really loved it. My biggest complaint about the book was that Mia’s relationship with Kenny seemed so forced. I feel like Mia thought she needed a boyfriend, and therefore was trying to make herself like him. However, in the end things ended the way that I wanted them to.

The pace of this series is very slow. Three books into the series, and Mia is still fourteen. This isn’t really a downfall for me, however. Although I’m definitely used to young adult series moving through time a bit quicker, I think it fits well. The voice and humor was on point in this novel, as it was in the previous books. And as in the previous books, this was a super quick read; and I listened to it on audio book through Scribd.

Overall, I would definitely recommend it and cannot wait to continue on with the series. I have already read book four, but I think I want to purchase these in paperback before I continue on past that.

Kenna Armstrong

Part of me wants to really like this book and give it a full five stars. The other part of me just wants to give it a 3.5 because of how...low its reading level was and how easy it was for me to just not want to pick it up sometimes. I settled in the middle with a pure 4. This book was actually really good though and I sped right through it. I now have the next two and another book to read tonight and I'm hoping it makes me get through it faster.

Erin 

3.5 stars. Not as good as the first one, but better than the second. This one is actually quite fun and amusing. Mia is stuck with a boyfriend that she doesn't actually like but didn't know how to let him down gently and as always, tries to lie her way out of things that always ends disastrously. Exhibit A: Boris Polkowski. Anyway, she spends the whole book lusting after Michael Moscovitz (prince of our hearts) and tries to convince herself that he likes her back. Which of course he does, but either she's really dense or he's really good at hiding it - probably both, to be honest. After a bunch of awkward mishaps where we are occasionally reminded that she's a princess and will one day rule a small country, poor Kenny thinks she's in love with Boris, Tina is hell-bent and determined to get Mia to confess her feelings, Michael creates a whole computer game to tell Mia how he also feels, she's too dumb to realise it's true, Kenny and Mia break up, Mia and Michael finally get together, and turns out Lilly knew about their feelings all along. Oh, and Boris is clueless, poor thing. Building a computer game is definitely the most nerdy thing to get to someone's heart that I've ever read, but hey, if it works who am I to judge?

Tragically this is the last of the audiobooks to feature Anne Hathaway's narration, which I am very heartbroken about. It's such a great thing to have on in the background while doing other things. Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll listen to the rest, but excuse me while I skip forward to Royal Wedding, in which Mia and Michael get their very much deserved and heavily anticipated happy ending. 

Also, 100th book of 2020!

Princess in Love The Princess Diaries #3

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