Meg Cabot is my comfort author and I am constantly re-reading her books and anticipating new releases, so I was extremely excited to get this ARC. The pandemic, even in year 3, has definitely been a time that has created a need for comfort, and getting to dive back into the world of the Princess Diaries delivered. Princess Mia is as quietly radical and completely dramatic as ever and getting to read the antics of all of our favorite Genovians was a joy. Now all we need is a revisit to The Boy series or 1-800-Where-Are-You.....

I was a big Princess Diaries fan growing up, so this book was so fun to read! I think I’ve realized though that I don’t love books that focus on pandemic life (nothing to do with the author or her writing)!

This book centers around how Princess Mia would handle the Covid-19 pandemic. This book was really fun! I started reading this series as a kid, so reading up on Princess Mia’s diary felt like spending time with an old friend. I loved seeing Princess Mia’s life in Genovia all these years later. The story was really relevant and referenced a lot of moments we faced during the pandemic. Overall, this was super entertaining and a fun read for all Princess Diaries fans.

Thank you Net Galley and Avon and Harper Voyger for this digital reviewer copy!

I remember how much I enjoyed sharing The Princess Diaries books with my daughter when she was young so when I saw that Meg Cabot had a new book coming out about Princess Mia coping with Covid, was excited to read it. I enjoyed the book but didn't love it as I thought I would.

I remember that the original PD books were YA and the writing style and topics covered were geared towards tweens and young teens. I am not sure what the target audience is for this book but I found the incessant boozing a little inappropriate for a kids' book. Really, Mia, a wine fridge in your bedroom? I was glad to spend time with the very likeable cast of characters from the previous books including Michael and Lily, but I really felt like this book gave Grandmere a bufoonish personality. No spoilers, but reading this book you will see what I mean.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Sadly, I think I’ve aged out of the Princess Diaries. Mia Thermopolis and I grew up together, we both had twins, but only one of us seemed to mature and it wasn’t Mia. The concept of the book is great and having read all the previous books I was ready to travel to Genovia once more and experience the pandemic with Mia and her family. Everyone it seemed made appearances but the spark of the characters and their relationships with each other seemed lack luster. A spark is missing with this book. The book read like Mia was still 16 but now a 16 year old married mom running a country. What used to be funny in previous books doesn’t have the same charm this time around.

There are a lot of political undertones throughout the book regarding covid, mask mandates and gun control that are exhausting to read. Reading about Princess Mia should make the reader laugh out loud and escape but instead this book ended up resembling a news report.

And a grown up Mia never makes mistakes. She’s perfect while everyone around her is childish. With the addition of the twins it would have been fun to read about parenting fails and relationship dynamics under quarantine but instead the story is all about what everyone else is doing wrong and how much Mia loves wine.

While it’s a light read and a nice hello with old friends, unfortunately it was too overly saturated with politics and social issues to be enjoyable.

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager for this ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was on the bubble regarding requesting this because I wasn’t sure I could handle a book about the pandemic. Any other time I have tried to read one, it was way too difficult and I stopped reading very early. Yet this one is something I never thought I’d say about a book with a pandemic plot line—it’s fun!

It was such a treat to read another one of Princess Mia's diaries! I read all of the original <em>Princess Diaries</em> novels back in the day, and only Meg Cabot could make a novel about lockdown feel cozy and comforting. This was a lovely exercise in nostalgia; Cabot is such a consistent writer, and Mia's voice rings truer than ever. That said, I also think high school Mia and adult Mia really don't have such different voices—Mia is still overly dramatic, often exasperated, and a bit immature. While it felt like receiving a warm hug to pick up this book, I also think Mia's diary entries meander too much at points. Throughout her books, she's been one to bog down readers with occasional exasperating and extraneous details—that holds true here. Mia is like a friend you adore deeply but also has her own brand of irritating—and that encompasses this book in a nutshell. I'm still overall glad to have read it as it's a literary homecoming for me.

Electronic ARC provided by publisher.

If you've been following Meg Cabot online then parts of this book will be familiar, having been previously published as updates on her website. Those entries have been expanded and embellished to become a full length novel about how Princess Mia and her family and friends deal with the Covid pandemic. We get to see Mia dealing with pandemic parenting, a quarantining spouse, a grandmother who refuses to take anything seriously, and of course, a country that sometimes strongly disagrees with her attempts to keep things safe and protected.

Many of the situations that Mia deals with, and conversations she has with friends and family, echo real life scenarios with which readers will be familiar. Of course, the bits of pandemic education come with a healthy side of Mia Thermopolis shenanigans, making this a pretty delightful read overall. It was fun to revisit all of these characters and check in on where they these days. In fact, it made me immediately want to go back and read the first few books of the series, having been reminded of how much I always enjoyed it.

I wouldn't label this as the strongest Princess Diaries book but it is a quick and fun read, and I loved seeing how Mia and her friends dealt with the pandemic.

I've been a big fan of the Princess Diaries series and Meg Cabot in general since I was in middle school. Before reading this book, I read "Royal Wedding" so that I would be up to date on what was going on with Mia after "Forever Princess," and I really liked it. I had high hopes for this book.
The problem that I had was that Mia's character, not to mention Michael's, seemed eclipsed by the pandemic. Obviously it is about the pandemic, but it seemed like Mia's character didn't have a chance to shine through. She barely interacted with Michael or her children, and when she wasn't drowning her sorrows in wine or dealing with Tina's relationship drama, she was preaching about the pandemic. Obviously, Mia's actions for Genovia during the pandemic were the right choices, and what she was saying about the effects of COVID were true, but it seemed like Cabot, at the height of the pandemic, was venting her frustrations about people not taking COVID seriously. There's a scene where a man tells someone else that COVID can affect young, healthy people, and that he personally needed to have a tube down his throat. It seemed overly simplified, obvious, and redundant, like something you'd see in a news article. The whole book was full of that. I wanted to see more about how Mia dealt with the pandemic as well as more updates about the people in her life, rather than Mia spouting off facts about the virus for 350 pages.

I really wanted to like this — I was so excited to see it! But I just couldn’t get into the story. I felt like Mia never really grew up and there was just so much unnecessary drama.

This book was all I’d hoped it would be and more! Mia, Michael, Lilly, Lana, etc. are all exactly as I’d expect each one to react to the pandemic and the pacing and writing of each journal entry was perfect. I devoured this book and was so sad to finish it!

The 8th grade girl inside me screamed internally on seeing this on Netgalley. I was a huge Meg Cabot fan during school and read all of her YA titles as soon as they came.

Anyways coming to the read, in classic Mia Thermopolis fashion, we get diary entries, conversations and just a lot of hilarity. Reading this made me feel like I was back in school, meeting old friends. I realized I still love Michael but Grandmere in this book was completely shocking!

The pandemic showed us a lot of different perspectives and Mia encounters each one of them as she grapples to keep Genovia free of COVID.

It is a light read, enjoyable and quick. I wouldn't mind more Princess Diaries books for a night of escape.

I loved this book! Always lighthearted and completely clean, the Princess Diaries series author uses her platform to record the pandemic of COVID-19 from the perspective of the Genovian royal family. It was heartwarming, informative with factual events and science, and put other views into perspective.

When a friend told me this book was coming out, I was thrilled. I adored these books when I was young and couldn't wait to see where Mia was today. I was a bit disappointed. Reading the details and where this book came from explained the format and plot of the book, but it still felt very immature. Mia didn't feel like she was in charge of anything. I would think by now, she'd have gained some respect but she still acted like her high school self. All of her family members fit different tropes of people during the pandemic, the anti masker, the anti vaxxer, the anti distancer, etc. I also felt like the diary entries could have been more introspective. It didn't feel like a diary. It felt like someone watching from the outside narrating.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

3.5 stars

The year was 2020 and Queen Mia Thermopolis was beginning to struggle with the Covid 19 pandemic like the rest of the world. Mia was now in her 30's, married to Michael Moscovitz and the mother of twins. Mia wrote in her diary the daily events documenting how she tried to keep the citizens of Genovia safe from disease while dealing with the antics of those living with her in the palace. She is met with resistance and support while trying her best to keep everyone happy.

Fans of the series will be happy to see old friends in this newest installment of the diaries. There are the usual selfish relatives and the supportive friends which made this story like visiting an old friend. I found myself thinking "___ is still doing/acting like that?" like I was catching up with an old friend.

I was received an e-ARC for The Quarantine Princess Diaries and want to thank Meg Cabot, Avon and Harper Voyager, and NetGalley for the opportunity to voluntarily read and give an honest review of this book.

This book was cute enough, but it was not one of my favorites in the Princess diaries series. I thought it was reaching a bit to try and bring everyone in from the other books and also write about the pandemic. It did have some very funny parts.

When I heard that there was going to be a new princess diaries book that dived into where Mia was now I was so excited. The princess diaries series was a huge part of my teenage years and I wanted to see crumbs of Mia and Micheal and the gang.

This book is basically Mia documenting her life from the beginning of covid and how she, her family, Fat Louie, and Genova were serving covid times. This book hit very close to home because I felt like I was again going through the emotions along with her and I remembered how tough and crazy the first year of covid was. There was a lot of covid politics and characters in the book voiced how the public views evolved and changed in regards to the covid pandemic.

I think this was a very light read, it was cute and I really enjoyed seeing all the characters I loved in the series back again. I don't think Mia changed much, she's more confident but still has that crazy and funny side that we all love and know. Her Grandmere is still so crazy and chaotic I love it and the general family dynamic is so fun especially since they all stay in that one palace.

I loved seeing Michael, I loved his character as a teenager and realized when reading this that I still love his character so much lol.
I do wish that we had gotten less covid stuff and more of Michael, Mia, the twins, and the friends because that's what I read the princess diaries for and that's what I wanted more of.

Overall if you want more of the princess diaries world and to see these characters that we loved come back to us, you should definitely read this fun yet real book!

Thank you so much NetGalley and Avon Books for this ARC of The Quarantine Princess.

This book felt like hugging an old friend you had not seen in a long time. My pre-teen and teenage self is so so so happy and so comforted by the fact that Mia is still the same after all these years.

I loved this so much but then again, I will always love everything Princess Mia and Michael, and Lily, and Grandmère, and Lars, and Genovia… all of it.

After all, Genovia truly is home for a bunch of us that grew up reading Mia’s diary. I love that she is still the ultimate hypochondriac, that Lana is still as clueless as ever, and that Boris is still a mouth breather. Lol.

What a comforting read! Of course Michael was the one who was going to come up with the forward thinking nasal vaccine, who else?

Loved loved loved this! More Princess Diaries please!

This is tough to say, not only because Mia and I go way, way back, and it's been a pleasure catching up with her, but because I know this book was created in part to support a worthwhile foundation and I hate to be a damn downer. But...Grandmère? Is that you? I...Julie Andrews would never - is what I'm saying.

#netgalleyarc This was a really cute book. Reading about these characters again brought me back to my youth, lol, and it was like crawling under a comfy and warm blanket. Reading about Covid isn’t my fave, but the topic was bound to work it’s way in the book world. This was overall a fun, quick read that took me back.