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Review: The Princess Diaries - Seventh Heaven
Meg Cabot
The Princess Diaries - Seventh Heaven is written by Meg Cabot. I find the story as exciting as the other series and the writing style is still the same. I felt that it gives readers a temptation that cannot be resist which makes us read the book at one shot. Overall, I will recommend the book to my friends!
Mia, the president of the student government had blew the entire annual budget with just some recycling bins with built-in crushers. It had been the seventh month she runs the government and they were the first government in the history of Albert Einstein High to be bankrupt.
The financial crisis has left them nothing to rent Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Centre for the Senior class's commencement ceremony . Feared that it will create chaos in school, Mia knew she had to do something to solve the problem.
Grandmere on the other hand faced her problem too. She was currently buying waterfront property --- the island of Genovia. However, she was not the only bidder. Se was competing with John Paul Renolds - Abernathy the Third whose son is J.P, aka the Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn In The Chilli.
While Mia frets on her problem, Grandmere thought it was an excellent chance for her to keep John Paul Renolds - Abernathy the Third away from her waterfront property. Grandmere decided to open an audition for a Musical Braid! for students in Albert Einstein School to take part in to raise money for the Genovian olive farmers, while secretly taking out a small amount for Mia's student government. That's not all. Her main motive was to make J.P a part of the musical and cause his father to drop the bid.
Everyone in school was busy with their schoolwork but it turned out that many students were aspiring thespians who turned up at the Grand Ballroom at The Plaza for audition. Soon, the musical cast list is out and as expected, the male lead was J.P, but surprisingly Mia was the female lead! She had never wanted to take part and did not even audition! She called Grandmere immediately to change the female lead, to which the latter replied, " I wondered what Amber would say if I happen to mention to her how you squandered the money for her commencement ceremony on recycling bins."
Mia was stunned to be threatened by her grandmother who said that just to make her join the musical. Mia was indeed taken aback because Amber Cheeseman is the only one who would come after her for the Senior class's commencement ceremony and thus, she must abide to her grandmother.
On Saturday March 6, Micheal, Mia's boyfriend organised a party for his friends and Mia was exceptionally not looking forward to it because Micheal's inviting his college friends whom she thought would definitely look down on her as she was merely a high school student.
Mia pratically embarrassed herself by sexy dancing with J.P, who was invited by Lily, Micheal's sister to his party. She wanted to proof to Micheal that she can be a party girl just like any other girl in his college. She wore black tights, a black velvet skirt, black Docs, black leotard and a black beret which caught everyone's attention and apparently, had shown Mia as a party girl. Mia then took out a beer from the refrigerator and started gulping it down just like any other drinks. Surprised, Micheal and Lily thought she was drunk but they could not stop anything because the next second Mia has started jumping and dancing with J.P.
The party ended for the princess when she noticed the door open, where Micheal's parents stood rooted to the ground, watching her dance with another guy in their apartment. Mia stopped dancing as she stared at the Dr Moscovitzes (parents of Micheal and Lily) said "Sorry, don't mind us," and hurried down the hall to their room. Micheal followed his parents and left poor Mia alone who decided to leave the house since she thought her boyfriend must be angry with her.
Wednesday March 10, the day of the big performance. The musical is about to begin and the cast is preparing behind the curtains, nervously waiting for the time to come. Mia was worried, because Grandmere had set an impossible task for her --- to kiss J.P to signal the end of the show. She felt like she was betraying Micheal but it would be bad to tell J.P about it...
The finale is here and it was time J.P and her appear on stage. Mia grabbed J.P's --- no wait, it was not J.P, it was Micheal's hands! It turned out that Micheal changed into J.P's suit and became the one who kissed Mia. The musical ended successfully and Grandmere, as she wanted, had J.P's father drop the bid. As for Mia, she got the money needed for the Senior's class's commencement ceremony and of course, Michael to be back with her again.