Sweet Sixteen Princess, by Meg Cabot
May. 3rd, 2007 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keilexandraGenre: Fiction/YA
82 pages (hardcover)
Despite its flaws, I adore the Princess Diaries series--I own the first two volumes in paperback and two others in hardcover, and I don't often buy books. Mia is a very real, likeable protagonist. I read these books and it's as if I'm truly peeking into someone else's life, someone with just as many issues and problems as I do. I love the fantasy genre like a firstborn child, but (well-written) young adult novels have the power to make me believe. With fantasy, there's always a little voice in the back of my head, grounding me in reality. Which can be good (especially where A Song of Ice and Fire is concerned) but sometimes I just want to read fluff and enjoy myself. I guess you could say YA is my form of escapism.
So yeah, that was my long-winded way of saying that I'm bad at reviewing fluff. If you like the Princess Diaries series, you'll like this book (though at a mere 82 pages, it's more like an extended chapter). If you've never tried Cabot before, this isn't the place to start. Only thing that annoys me, really, is how Cabot's publishers blatantly make extra money by selling tiny books for $9 apiece. If this hadn't been at the library, I wouldn't have bought it. Fluff is fluff, after all.
Still catching up on transcribing handwritten reviews.
82 pages (hardcover)
Despite its flaws, I adore the Princess Diaries series--I own the first two volumes in paperback and two others in hardcover, and I don't often buy books. Mia is a very real, likeable protagonist. I read these books and it's as if I'm truly peeking into someone else's life, someone with just as many issues and problems as I do. I love the fantasy genre like a firstborn child, but (well-written) young adult novels have the power to make me believe. With fantasy, there's always a little voice in the back of my head, grounding me in reality. Which can be good (especially where A Song of Ice and Fire is concerned) but sometimes I just want to read fluff and enjoy myself. I guess you could say YA is my form of escapism.
So yeah, that was my long-winded way of saying that I'm bad at reviewing fluff. If you like the Princess Diaries series, you'll like this book (though at a mere 82 pages, it's more like an extended chapter). If you've never tried Cabot before, this isn't the place to start. Only thing that annoys me, really, is how Cabot's publishers blatantly make extra money by selling tiny books for $9 apiece. If this hadn't been at the library, I wouldn't have bought it. Fluff is fluff, after all.
Still catching up on transcribing handwritten reviews.
