Nani

I don't know where to begin with this book. I honestly do not understand why this has such mixed reviews, it's such a difficult read. So much so, that I almost DNF this book, but the OCD in me would not allow me to do that.

So I trudged through this book, which just annoyed me even more, as this was meant to be one of my quicker reads on my TBR, but it ended up taking me way too long.

There was nothing redeemable in this book for me:
took way too long to get to the plot of this book - the book rambles on for about 90% with no story whatsover. Just a girl pining over a guy with a love story that's not believable, complaining about how her family doesn't understand her, and feeling that she has every right to pass judgment on everyone else in her family.

The payoff in the end where the big mystery is revealed was so underwhelming after having spent the majority of the book wanting to pull my hair out - I could not deal with the way this book was written. Whatever the author was trying to accomploish with those broken sentences clearly went over my head.

I don't know if I'm missing something, but this just wasn't for me. Off to find a book to cleanse me of this miserable experience

Mia really is so oblivious, it can get annoying. Have to constantly remind myself that she is a literal teenager, clueless about love, and that I am not the intended target audience to be reading these books in the first place.... and then it's easier to read.

Once you get over that, it's actually quite a sweet and cute story. Although I am starting to question why Mia is friends with Lilly??!! Honestly!

This is starting to drag on a bit. It's hard to justify Mia's whining.

I get that we're reading a “diary” where you're allowed to offload your unfiltered, mess of a brain, but at some point, one must realise that if you just communicated just a small percentage of your thoughts, you'd get some answers to the continuous questions she seems to go on and on about.

Find myself wanting to yell at Mia to stop writing and actually speak up!

Commited to finishing this series, as I've started it so many times but never got past the 3rd book, but if the rest of the series is like this, I can already tell it's going to feel like a drag. Which is a shame, as the first few books, although teenagey and silly, felt more like a light, easy read.

Finally finished the (original) series. Almost didn't make it through, but glad I did.

Loved seeing Michael back, but noticed with Michael back, all of Mia's newfound maturity just goes out the window. Surprisingly, it wasn't annoying like it has been in previous books - maybe it's because the characters were all getting an ending, maybe not. Who knows?

But it was nice to see everything tie up nicely. I definitely don't see myself rereading this series, but I did remember why I liked it so much when I was a lot younger. The princess diaries books got me into YA, and I can definitely remember the appeal.