Sunday, August 2, 2015

Royal Wedding / Meg Cabot / 434 pages

Princess Amelia (Mia) Thermopolis of Genovia is "a college-educated, vital, attractive, newly-turned 26-year-old woman, with meaningful employment, a loving (if sometimes challenging) family, an amazing boyfriend, loads of great friends, and tons to offer the world."  Recently she has been under so much stress her left eyelid has been twitching pretty much nonstop.  She is still coping with her stepfather's death from a sudden heart attack just a year ago.  Her father was recently arrested for driving a racing car 180 miles per hour on the west side of New York.  His opponent for Prime Minister of Genovia is using this to mount protests in front of the embassy.  There are hordes of paparazzi gathered outside the consulate doors and following Mia wherever she goes.  She is obsessed with her current Rate a Royal rating and she is being stalked by the RoyalRabbleRouser who has vowed to kill her.  In addition to her ongoing conflicts with her Grandmere, social media has mounted a campaign questioning her relationship status with her childhood friend, Michael Moscovitz, a billionaire Jewish computer tech medical design engineer.  Dr. Delgado, the newly appointed royal physician, suggests she journal to relieve this tension. When Michael asked Mia to marry him, journal entries, text message exchanges, and press clippings relate the background story to the royal wedding.  Loved the literary references to Harry Potter and Hunger Games.


"Human beings were put on this planet to...leave it a better place than they found it."

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