i've been betrayed by meg cabot.
princess diaries 8 is so bad that i might have to give up my faith in the entire series.

to begin with, michael and mia broke up. which sucks, but was basically inevitable. what makes it betrayal is the WAY that they were broken up. the first major problem is that for the past few books, cabot has sort of drifted from the characterizations that made the first three installments such a guilty pleasure. now it's more of a pop-culture-driven, facile extrapolation of a More...

Honestly I'm getting more and more disappointed with Meg Cabot. Her books are addictive but they are getting so sexual for a teen book that it kind of bothers me. Honestly 15 year old girls do NOT need to know how to make themselves orgasm in the shower. And while its great that she at least talks about safe sex, does she really need to talk about safe sex in every book? Its just frustrating to me as a mom. I dont want my girls reading about that kind of stuff until they are much older than the More...

Reviewed by Andie Z. for TeensReadToo.com

It's the beginning of Mia's junior year, but so far, things are not going as planned. For starters, Mia may have managed to pass Algebra and Geometry, but now she has to deal with Pre-Calculus. And she's also totally lost in Chemistry, even though she now has two lab partners instead of just one. Lilly has also decided to nominate Mia for student body president. Again. And even though Mia has tried to explain that she doesn't want it, as we all know, once More...

I can't believe this book. Michael and Mia break up and Lilly and J.P. break up. But, I can understand why Mia breaks up w/ Michael. He didn't tell her that he had sex w/ Judith Greshner. EWWWW!!!!!! For God's Sake, Mia had a lot more better thigns than Judith. All Judith could do was clone fruit flies. Mia was a princess and loved Michael. But, I can't believe Michael went to Japan. I think Meg Cabot needs to write another book in the Princess Diaries Series so we can all find out what happens More...

am an adult but very fond of the Princess Diaries books. This is not my favorite book, simply because it is not as funny as the previous ones. But it is written about issues that interest me. After all, I've been a teenager myself. I thought it was wise of Meg Cabot to raise questions about intimacy issues betweet Mia and Michael. Every girl dating an older boy at some point has to face the same problem: should she DO IT with her more mature boy-friend even if she is not ready, or break up with More...

Michael is moving to Japan!!! I needed to travel to my sixteen year old self to fully understand the devastation that Mia is going through. Yes having the one that you love move to the other side of the world is the end of the world. I get it. What I don't understand is her Grandmere. She has told Mia that being a princess is all about being kind to people. Um if I remember correctly I believe that Grandmere is not kind to most people. She is the most materialistic character that I have read abo More...

COME ON!!!!

DUDETTE!!

You are so...oblivious!!!

JESUS CHRIST!!

Can't YOU SEE??

Going to the stupid Beauty and the Beast musical, with J.P., no less is NOT gonna make things better!! It is TOTALLY gonna make things worst than it already is!!!!

Here are some examples:

Lilly will actually believe that you are lying, BECAUSE!!! Because you went out with J.P. AGAIN.

Lilly will tell Michael about you going out with J.P.!! Need I say more?

You are actually doing what your Grandmere wants you to do!! Which is go More...

Mia finds out that Michael is going to Japan for a year or more. Enter emotional drama. Mia thinks she can find a way to talk him into staying, but she feels sick at the thought. More drama and lots of exclamation points ensue.

Blah. Blah.

The only reason I'm reading these books is because I'm almost done. They're short and brainless reads. I can read a book in a few hours. It's not that much of a sacrifice, but it kinda feels like eating brussels sprouts to me. I just chew and swallow and try n More...

There is something in this book that makes it different from the other books in this series, particularly as this book is directed for older readers. I am intrigued on the fact how Mia can be really smart at certain points, but became really immature,and stupid at certain times. I guess what you could pick out from this book is that, being smart doesn't mean the person will be emotionally mature.

But the thing that really touched me is that, how this book is so realistic (in a teenage fashion), More...

Reviewed for TeensReadToo

It's the beginning of Mia's junior year, but so far, things are not going as planned. For starters, Mia may have managed to pass Algebra and Geometry, but now she has to deal with Pre-Calculus. And she's also totally lost in Chemistry, even though she now has two lab partners instead of just one. Lilly has also decided to nominate Mia for student body president. Again. And even though Mia has tried to explain that she doesn't want it, as we all know, once Lilly's mind is More...

I have enjoyed the series up until this point, and while I do plan to finish the series, I was slightly disappointed in this novel. I agree that breaking up Mia and Michael is probably for the best in terms of the whole overall story (though I am rooting for/hoping they reunite), I don't particularly care for the way Cabot decided to do it. I dislike the fact that she added a component to Michael's past that I feel is out of character from the way we've seen him so far, and I also think Mia hand More...

bad book she acts like this boy is her only life
hes not and lily is so rude

Mia's worrying and stressing and overthinking of everything in this book took it's toll. I guess Meg Cabot thought that Mia needed to have something to overstress about for the duration of the book, however I do think that even just having Mia worry about whether or not to have sex with Michael and then have them actually talk about it would have made the book less of an annoyance to read instead of her complain and cry over how Michael had lost his "Precious Gift" to Judith.

I suppose her react More...

Dit is het achtste deel van The Princess Diaries en ik denk dat het niet vertaald is in het Nederlands, vandaar de Engelse gegevens. Je vraagt je misschien af waarom ik in godsnaam het achtste boek van deze serie nog wilde lezen, het achtste! Dat vroeg ik mij soms ook af wanneer ik het aan het lezen was, maar op andere momenten was ik blij dat ik het deed.

Het boek is nog steeds helemaal in de Mia-stijl geschreven, in dagboekvorm met veel HOOFDLETTERS en uitroeptekens!! Dat is wel grappig en onts More...

Okay, I'll admit that books four, five, and six lost a bit of the charm for me. It seemed like we weren't seeing ANY development in Mia. she was still the selfish and naïve girl we've being seeing since the beginning of this series. That being said, I still thoroughly enjoyed them (I just found myself wanting to shake Mia a bit more than normal). But the important thing is that the slight dip in enjoyment didn't make me want to stop reading the series (not even close). I still loved reading abou More...

Mia deals with some very adult themes in this book, though I'm not sure I'd call them adult decisions since she certainly refuses to think through them like an adult.



As other reviewers wrote, this book is not like the others. There is very little fun and happiness in this book, which may not be a bad thing considering Mia IS growing up and ever closer to wearing the crown. At the same time, Mia's insecurities become so pronounced that, I think, she loses the audience. It is difficult to sympath More...

This was a really rough book for me. It actually upset me quite a bit. I'd been through a similar experience to some of what happens in this book (years ago) and boy, I really felt for Mia. I was pretty frigging upset with Michael in this book, and yes, I'm aware he's fictional!

This one just reminded me yet again of just how naive I was at Mia's age (and even later) and I could really feel for her. The world isn't as easy or rosy a place as we like to think sometimes and sometimes things just do More...

All Mia wants to do is be a writer, it is her one given talent! So why would her teacher put her in Into to Cr4eative Writing? And how is she supposed to pass Pre Cal? These seem to be Mia's biggest problems until Michael tells her he is leaving for Japan for a year. Mia has to make him stay, but at what cost?

After reading the first book in this series I went to the library and just happened to see the rest of the books (11 of them) sitting on the shelf so I loaded them into my bag and found mys More...

She is getting way too whinny now. And stupid. She thinks too much and I liked her theorist until he ruined himself when he was the cause of why Mia did what she did. I get want to finish the series so I can say i read all of it and her conversation are tempting me so murder her. Yup

I know, I know . . . the Princess Diaries. But I have 3 books and I have finished the series and for Cynthia's Summer Book Challenge in the "Next Best Book Club" Group here on Good Reads . . . one of the challenges is to read 3 Young Adult Novels . . . and 3 + 3 makes magic!

Princess on the Brink continues the teen melodrama that is Princess Mia's life. The drama gets a little tough to handle at times since she doesn't think she is much of anything and she has great friends and guys falling after More...

Just when things start to go right, Michael drops a big shock on Mia - he's been asked to move to Japan for a year to work on a prototype for a mechanical surgical tool that he has created. Can Mia survive without Michael by her side.
I read this in about an hour and a half. There is still the growing love triangle between Michael, J.P and Mia even though J.P is dating Lilly.
Mia does seem to be maturing in this book, but still has breakdowns (as we all do) I actually started to feel sorry for he More...

This one is definitely one of my favorites so far, or at least in a while. Finally, a realistic scenario. I really remember what it was like to be that age and have those same worries, and for the first time in a while I was able to empathize with Mia and couldn't wait to find out what happens (although, of course, I already knew since this is where I stopped reading the series the last time. I think. But only because I didn't own the next book yet!). I feel that Mia's issue with Michael was rea More...

Watch out!

There is trouble in paradise for Princess Mia and Michael, as Michael accepts an opportunity of a life time to go to Japan and make his prototype robotic arm turn into a real life invention.

Princess Mia, being still immature enough to come under the pressure of the situation and aided by Boris's observation of long distant romances in his orchestra totally freaks out. Instead of making things better, she ends up sending everything into a blackhole of disaster. And what is up with thi More...

I love all the princess books, but this one felt a little tired too me---there wasn't the usual subplots, and I didn't care for the re-tread of the first book in the form of a screenplay. I liked the whole will-they-or-won't-they, but it felt like that was the only focus, whereas other books have had more about the friends and school and homelife. I also felt like the adults in Mia's life were way more accepting of the prospect of her having sex than their past characterizations would have indic More...