As much as I enjoyed and had fun while getting back into the Princess Diaries world, the teenage-y feel of this doesn't work as well anymore, at least for me. Mia is often worried about the silliest things and the fact that her boyfriend doesn't like celebrating Valentine's day becomes a life-and-death situation and a sure sign that he doesn't love her and is going to break up with her *sigh*. Oh, the drama. And Lily....I wonder why Mia is friends with her at all. She's a lousy friend, is jealous of everything if she's not the center, is often cruel and spiteful with whoever she thinks is 'beneath' her somehow (which is pratically everyone) and her activism is selective. I remember not liking her a lot while I read the main series, but after this short stories I'm finding that I loath her character a lot and Mia would've been better off without her a lot of the times - she has way better friends in Tina Hankin Baba, Boris and etc. Grandmère and her shenanigans are always funny and I love HER drama. I don't know if trying to get back into this series to read the Royal Wedding book was a good idea, because I'm afraid they don't quite work for me anymore, but some of it is funny and sweet, so, depending on how it will go, I'll read the final installment or not.