Loved this! It was so much fun reading about all the crazy stuff that Mia and her friends got into in such a short period of time. Plus it was cool to read about Michael and Lilly in Genovia! I love any story about Christmas and I thought it was really cute how Mia and Michael got each other's gifts!

Probably my favourite Princess Diaries novella.I actually love reading about Genovia and Mia spending time there with her Grandmère.And,even though I think that Lily is insufferable most of the time,I found her actions in this book extremely funny and entertaining.Michael is purr-fect,as always.Love the balcony scene and,of course,the gift exchange scene. ♥

A fun quick read however the more I read this series I just don't understand why Mia is friends with Lilly.

Reread on June 5, 2022: The royal name-dropping REALLY does not work here considering recent revelations, but oh well. As always, I remain Michael’s #1 fan.

See my entire binge read of this book and books 6-7 1/2 here.Hmmm, probably my least favorite novella.And you want to know why.Lilly.The phrase you want to tell Lilly throughout the entire book.If I were Grandmere, I’d throw her in the dungeon. She basically caused an international incident. Mia should remember this for future reference (cough, wedding planning, cough).If you could get pass the Lilly hate in this one, the plot was pretty simple. It was basically a redux of “The Gift of the Magi”...

LILLY IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. Mia needs to dump her asap.

Okay, so I finished this book around January 14th... AND I'm just now getting time to write the review. Talk about being super freaking busy. Stupid life and work getting in the way of reviews. Have no fear - Alaina is here and I am going to write reviews for all of the books that I've read and never got the chance to write a good/bad review for the entire month of January! Okay, so The Princess Present was a very short novella and I loved every second of it because it was short . I'm trying

3.5 stars rounded to 4 because it made me laugh.I read the 'Party Princess' before reading this and after reading this book, I don't see that it really fit in the order she put it. This book feels like it should have come after Party Princess instead of before.That aside ^ I love Mia's love for Buffy and that she has the action figures. I never knew there were action figures, but I've always been a fan of Buffy.Lilly is annoying and a pain in the ass like always. I don't understand why Mia is fr...

Absolutely hilarious, and a sheer joy to read!ETA 10 years later: This book is a really cute Princess Diaries take on Gift of the Magi, and it’s a lot of fun seeing Mia princessing around with other young royals. In fact, I think the relationship with the other princes and princesses was really worth exploring more. Lilly remains an utterly reprehensible human being, but at least Mia is finally cottoning on to that fact and not putting up with her BS. The best part was the juxtaposition of Ameri...

This was cute. What the hell was up with Lily? So disrespectful. But yay cats =)

Not one of my favorite of Mrs. Cabot's books. I mean this one is the cleanest one of the princess diaries I have encountered, but it was just too quick. It felt like just as I was getting into the story it stopped. If anyone know what that feels like it isn't the best. And I also felt like this one is in such a weird spot. 6 starts the beginning of the school year and then here is christmas. It was just weird. Anyways for the stuff you actually need to know.PARENT NOTE: One punch thrown at a roy...

I'm a huge Meg Cabot fan. As you all can tell, I'm currently reading all the Princess Diaries novels in order, and believe me, there's so many other books calling, but I'm staying true to Meg. But UGH, this one was not good. It's like the publisher came up to her on summer vacation and said, Meg, you need to do a little stocking stuffer book for your fans and get it to us soon so it'll be out by Christmas. So Meg drank a couple of Grandmere's sidecars and knocked this one out in a couple of days...

Short Review for a Short ReviewThe ending of this book was the biggest cliche of all time.Mia bought a gift for Micheal for his favorite thing.Micheal bought a gift for Mia for her favorite thing.Give to each other...Only to find out they both sold their favorite thing to buy the gifts....LAMEMia really bothers me in this book thou, you're a freaking princess lady, it's time to act like it. I get it, you're young and want to enjoy life, but you now have things you need to do, so stop thinking ab...

I enjoyed it. I kid you not. I may be going bonkers by the amount of Chick-lit I'm ingesting these days but seriously! It is so tremendously pleasant when Mia's not suffering from CCD {Chronic Complaining Disorder}. Do you know how many times she wailed about life's unfairness in this one? ZERO!!! And compared to what a total lunatic Lily is turning out to be with each book, Mia seemed downright nice; calm and collected and focused on her princess-ly duties. Michael and Lily's stay at Genovia wa...

This was a cute novella, the dilemma over the presents between Michael and Mia was very sitcom but cute. I find myself again asking why Lilly is such a jerk and why Mia continues to be friends with her. Surely she must see some redeeming qualities, but why does the reader never get to see them? I was surprised and delighted to see some more softening of Grandmere's character. Ready to move on to the next book!

I'm pretty sure it's been over 5 years since I last time read a book from The Princess Diaries series.Even though I was crazy about it, the 6th sequel was the last one I read.Not a long time ago I decided to change that, and not quite sure it was a good idea. It's definately not what I remembered.Couldn't stop thinking for a second how badly I wanted to slap Lilly.Oh well.Off to the book 7.

The book in which Michael and Lilly try to get back in my good graces and sort of succeed.

Why is Lilly such a terrible person? Why is Mia still friends with her? How did she not get kicked out of the palace? Why is she apparently a guy-magnet? Honestly, with each books that progresses I actually dislike Lilly more, which seems impossible, but there you go. This novella is centred on her and Michael going to Genovia for Christmas to spend it with Mia, and she acts atrociously. She apparently has a bunch of royals (and a footman) fighting over her, plays strip bowling, dresses inapprop...

I don’t understand what Lilly’s problem is. How can she be so negative?!And that’s all I’m going to say about her because this novella isn’t about Lilly. It’s about Michael and Mia and their Christmas presents to each other. The Princess Present was basically a retelling of The Gift of the Magi, which is my favorite short story ever, so I really liked this one!The main strengths of this novella were Michael and Mia’s gift exchange and the funny events at the ball organized by Clarisse. The big w...

Quick little read that I feel bad about even including as a book. It's Christmas in Genovia, and Lilly and Michael are coming to join Mia. Best part of the book -- Mia telling Lilly to get over herself and behave after her antics get someone fired. Worst part of the book -- Meg Cabot's constant reminders that she hates the movies for Princess Diaries. We get it. You mention it in every. freaking book. Please let it go already.