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Princess in Training
294 pages
A delightfully dramatic, laugh-out-loud plunge into the chaotic mind of a teenager juggling royal duties, high school politics, and first-love anxieties.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like intercepting the private, highly classified notebook of your funniest, most dramatic friend. The diary format creates a brisk, propulsive reading experience, pulling you directly into a whirlwind of teenage angst, romantic insecurity, and hilarious overreactions. It perfectly captures that specific, chaotic era of adolescence where failing geometry and running a small European nation feel equally catastrophic. The tone is deeply self-deprecating but ultimately earnest, wrapping genuine anxieties about growing up and changing relationship dynamics in laugh-out-loud humor. It is a nostalgic, comforting read that delights anyone who appreciates a delightfully flawed protagonist stumbling her way toward confidence, proving that even with a tiara, the high school experience is universally messy.
- Mood
- chaotic
- lighthearted
- nostalgic
- angsty
- Tone
- dramatic
- self-deprecating
- humorous
- conversational
- earnest
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- teenage anxiety · navigating changing relationships · the pressure of expectations · finding one's voice
- The writing
- Stream-of-consciousness diary entries filled with capital letters, dramatic declarations, and highly relatable teenage hyperbole.
- The arc
- Moves from spiraling, overwhelmed insecurity about growing up to a triumphant, if slightly messy, realization of her own capability.
- Who it's for
- Anyone who loves a funny, deeply relatable coming-of-age story anchored by an endearingly flawed and dramatic protagonist.
Content notes
- mild sexual references
- teenage bullying
About the book
Princess for president!
Student body president, that is -- nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but as usual, she has bigger problems to worry about, like Geometry. And now that Mia's one true love, Michael, is uptown at college, what's the point of even getting up for school in the morning? But the last straw is what Lana whispers to her on the lunch line about what college boys expect of their girlfriends.... Really, it's almost more than a princess in training can bear!
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