Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot

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All the notebooks stashes in shoeboxes, the sneaking of writing during class, why publishing a novel became one of my lifelong goals, was all because of HRH Princess Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Gimaldi Renaldo of Genovia. Princess Diaries is my Harry Potter - the reason I continue to bury myself in books and callous my fingers from writing. I grew up with her and she grew up with me in a matter of months that I went through all of the 10 installments. I rememeber writing in my old diary about getting an insomnia - or was it pulling an all-nighter? - and finishing one of her diaries in a single night.

Princess Diaries is a huge part of my life. I pretty much squealed in delight when I found out the Meg Cabot's releasing another book and even more when I finally had it in my hands (well, in my phone). Now we learn what happened with Mia and Michael after highschool and adult Mia after college.

Principesa, everyone must make the sacrifice for love! That's what makes it worth it.

The Royal Wedding was [REDACTED] amazing. I was smiling and gasping and laughing but, like most books, it wasn't perfect. There were characters that I wish appeared more or sooner given how big their influence was in the previous books.

Another aspect that swerved me from the path to true love was how everybody lived happily ever after. It's not that that's bad but every single problem happened to solve itself in 448 pages (ebook version) and everybody got what they wanted (or deserved). It felt quite sappy to have it all wrapped up with a bow like that but it wasn't unbearable and the twists and feels definitely made up for it.

We need to be more appreciative of the things we have. You have to make sacrifices for love, it may not get you to where you were headed but it will get you somewhere, and that place may be even better than where you thought you were going. 

Prince Diaries 1 to 10 was all about Mia's struggles in fitting in and fulfilling her newly-found princess role while pushing through highschool and hormones. Royal Wedding  was focused a lot on Mia and Michael and oh my god, ALL. THE. FEELS.

I can't even begin how Michael was the perfect guy. Literally. I want a Michael now.

Let me just add, given how they're all adults now, the constantly present paparazzi have changed their battle tactics and encounters with the mob were hilarious.

Royal Wedding was a truly fangirl pleasing sequel to teenage Mia. The characters really have grown up, facing the world with maturity and confidence. I especially love how Mia advocates feminine strength in her works as princess and doesn't overlook the real world problems we actually face today. It was refreshing to read about and see a character be such an influential person with truly good intentions. Her position didn't compromise her humanity and we really need more of those kind of people in real life. Meg Cabot, very well done!

So I'm going to ignore the haters, get out of this bed, and get to work doing what human beings were put on this planet to do: leave it a better place than they found it.

But that doesn't mean I don't need another [REDACTED] sequel about the [REDACTED SPOILER].