Royal Wedding

Princess Mia's life in New York City is one glamorous whirlwind. Not only does she have to deal with nosy gossip columnists on a daily basis and the paparazzi following her every move, she's also expected to enchant wealthy strangers at royal engagements. Speaking of engagements...Mia's gorgeous long-term boyfriend Michael has popped The Question on an exotic Carribbean island. Finally they're ready to settle down...or so she thought.

When Mia and Michael return from their romantic hideaway, they discover that they are embroiled in a scandal of majestic proportions! A scandal that could turn the normally calm Michael into a runaway groom...Worse still, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia's father from the throne. 

Mia may be ready to wed, but is she ready to rule as well? - excerpt from book.

Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot is about Princess Mia after she's all grown up now in her mid twenties. From what I read around the internet this is the last book for the series, which makes me kinda sad as I started loving Meg Cabot's books from her The Princess Diaries series. I read this series when I was in high school through college so it's about more than 10 years since I've read this series. I was so excited about this last book, so naturally I bought it immediately when it's out. This book really brings back such good memories of my younger days, how much I loved it, laughed with it and smiled about it.

I can gladly say that this book is still funny and witty like the previous books and I absolutely enjoyed reading it. I totally love reading about Princess Mia's daily life especially her reactions to events happening. The interactions of the characters are all so entertaining too, it was so fun reading about all her friends again. It's just so nice that the characters all feel familiar but then because they have grown up there's a slight difference in personality for everyone too.

The plot is very smooth with really good twists which I could not expect at all. I think the timing of events happening in the storyline was perfect. I have nothing to complain about the story and the only thing that makes me sad is I wished there was more in the series. Because I love the series so much, it's only normal that it was a hard book to put down, so I kept flipping the pages quickly.

Reading Meg Cabot's books are such joy to me and it has always been funny. After writing this review, I feel I must take out her other books and read them again. I highly recommend this to all Princess Diaries series lovers because we must read the ending for Mia's story (hopefully Meg Cabot changes her mind and writes more). I also recommend this to readers who enjoys reading romance books that are funny. Without a doubt I would reread this book in the near future.

Reading goals for 2015

Last year it has been a good reading year since I managed to finish my reading goal challenge which is 50 books. I just randomly picked books that I was interested and read last year which is usually new books that I bought. Because of this behavior I ended up with a big TBR(to-be-read) pile which contains books that have been bought many years ago. 

This year I think some planning and a little bit structure will help reach my 50 books challenge. Below is the list which I hope I might be able to roughly follow through if I can:

1. Read 50 books
2. Finish 5 series at least (Mistborn trilogy, Maze runner, Matched trilogy, The Inheritance Cycle, Fire and thorn trilogy)
3. Listen to all the Harry Potter audiobooks
4. Read 1 book a week at least.
5. Read at least 2 self-help books 

Counting the series listed there, there is 16 books there where the reading goal will be 34 books left. When I include the 2 self-help books and 6 of 7 Harry Potter audiobooks, the total will be 26 books left. Those 26 books will either come from my TBR pile or new books that I'm planning to buy this year. These are just simple goals but I really hope I can do it. Here's to wishing all bookworms good luck in reaching your reading goals!!

Top 5 Series I want to start this year

5. Ruby Red trilogy - I have the first and second book sitting on my shelf and the last book in my Amazon cart currently so it's time to read it soon. I have heard mix reviews but generally the story line interests me because of the timeline of the book. The series in English is actually a translated version but I think it might be a good one to read. 

4. Darkest Mind trilogy - This is a series that is completed and many Booktubers have raved about it. Since it is in the dystopia genre, I am very interested to read it. I also heard that the characters of the book sort of have superpowers which is another type of story that interests me.

3. Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy - Another series that was completed last year. The booktubers that I follow have all loved the series and it's their favourite series of all time. I do not know much of the book except it's in the fantasy genre which is my favourite genre of all time. So excited to get the box set on amazon.

2. Throne of Glass series - This is one fantasy series that many have praised and I have yet to start. All I know it's about this female assassin competing in something to obtain freedom. I seriously do not know what's it about but it is time to reduce my TBR pile as I already have bought all the books in the series available.

1. Falling Kingdoms trilogy - Lastly, this is the trilogy that I'm most excited to start as one of my favourite Booktubers (gingerreadslainey) loved loved it and her taste in books are quite similar to mine so I quite trust her judgement. As I know it's a high fantasy trilogy with quite a number of characters involved. I do not want to read any reviews because I'm afraid of spoilers. I'm hoping to buy the series soon and start it ASAP.

Hopefully I am able to start and finish those series mentioned above as 4 series have already completed which is good news because I can marathon it.