"Grandmère says the only way we as a society can learn from our mistakes is carefully to scrutinize them, and vow never to repeat them." (Mia Thermopolis)
Perfect Princess is a guide to non-fictional and fictional princesses from the past and the present, how they have influenced the world and how we can be like them.
♕ Perfect Princess is informative, but it isn't historically accurate.
♕ There's too many princesses and not enough information about each princess. Perfect Princess would have been better if it dealt with a few princesses and provided detailed information about each of them.
♕ Too many princesses = information overload. (Also, this is why I can never be a Mathematician)
♕ It's difficult to identify which princesses are fictional. However, Genovia, a fictional country, is real in The Princess Diaries series, so I can understand why it wasn't explicitly stated.
♕ The characters from The Princess Diaries series who provide information about the princesses lack 'voice' and personality. Mia's journal entries in The Princess Diaries are so full of personality and I didn't expect the characters 'essays' in Perfect Princess to feel so flat.
♕ Perfect Princess is BORING!
♕ Perfect Princess is not an entertaining or humourous read.