I recently finished another audiobook, The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot and read by Anne Hathaway. This was a fun book. But, it was very different from the movie.
The premise of the book is the same, Mia Thermopolis discoveres that her father is a prince, and her grandmother is a queen, or rather Dowager Princess (widow who holds the title derived from her deceased husband) of Genovia. Mia's father is alive, having been diagnosed with cancer (the kind that prevents him from having any more children). He breaks the news to her so that she can carry out the title. She is furious with him. As if she didn't have enough problems (she feels ugly, has few friends, and her mother is dating her algebra teacher), now she has to be a princess. She eventually discovers that her impressions of people around her were wrong and that looks are more than skin-deep.
This is definitely a young adult book. There are themes and words that some will object to. It was a Best Books for Young Adults selection of the American Library Association in 2001.
I am now listening to The Undertakers Wife by Loren Estleman.
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