{"id":658,"date":"2015-04-11T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2015-04-11T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:33:53","slug":"princess-in-waiting-by-meg-cabot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll admit, the first time I read <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Princess-Diaries-IV-Waiting\/dp\/0061543640\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1428798546&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=princess+in+waiting\" target=\"_blank\">Princess in Waiting<\/a><\/i>, volume 4 of the <i>Princess Diaries<\/i> series<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Princess-Diaries-IV-Waiting\/dp\/0061543640\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1428798546&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=princess+in+waiting\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Princess in Waiting\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Princess in Waiting\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Princess-in-Waiting.jpg\" width=\"164\" align=\"right\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> by Meg Cabot, I wasn\u2019t that excited. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I think the series as a whole is great! But there\u2019s something about book 4 that makes it different from the rest of the books. I thought about what that might be during this current read and I think it\u2019s the fact that book 4 is missing controversy and build up to some big event.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Princess in Waiting<\/i> the big event is Mia and Michael\u2019s first date and the only controversy is Mia\u2019s insecurities about how much Michael likes her. The first time I read this book I was kind of disappointed with the lack of excitement but this time around I kind of liked that quality. With all the drama and surprises of the first three books I was glad to relax a little in book 4 where Mia settles in for her second semester of high school and finds out what it\u2019s like to be Michael Moscovitz\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The other big difference about <i>Princess in Waiting<\/i> is the first half which takes place in Genovia, not New York City. Mia is, of course, bored to tears spending her Winter Break in Genovia, not to mention wild to see Michael. I, of course, loved reading about all the princessy deliciousness of the royal palace and all the activities Grandm\u00e8re has lined up for Mia.<\/p>\n<p>Mia\u2019s neuroses, especially where her relationship with Michael is concerned, did get a tad on my nerves in this book. However, her constant advice seeking about romance did make for an amusing quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere between the two of them \u2013 Grandm\u00e8re and Lilly \u2013 must lie the truth to maintaining a successful relationship with a man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hesitation notwithstanding , I still give this book a Shrimp Coma Mrs. B.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mrs.-B-rating-shrimp-coma1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mrs. B rating shrimp coma\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mrs. B rating shrimp coma\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mrs.-B-rating-shrimp-coma_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll admit, the first time I read Princess in Waiting, volume 4 of the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot, I wasn\u2019t that excited. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I think the series as a whole is great! But there\u2019s something about book 4 that makes it different from the rest of the books. I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,36,26],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meg-cabot","tag-princess-diaries","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}