I read this after seeing the film and was disappointed to find out how much of what I liked in the movie did not come from the book. Queen Clarisse is underdeveloped and awful, possibly due to the dad still being alive as the sympathetic royal character. The drama with the classmates and boys is drawn out and exhausting. But what I most don't understand is why Mia started from a level of knowledge that would make any reasonable person suspicious about what was going on, but then still tried to play the princess thing as a suprise. Come on she knew a tiny country where her grandma had a chateaux had a ruling family with her surname and yet she was shocked?