I FINALLY READ THE PRINCESS AND GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!

 

OMG this book was so cute! Now I am craving grilled cheese sandwiches😋.

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz is about Lady Camembert, who like women and obviously doesn't want to marry any men. But she is left orphaned and her father's last wish was that she moved somewhere new in the country of Fondue with her lady-in-waiting Feta and pretend to be a man. So she starts living as Count Camembert. But she has to keep a low profile as much as possible, while still expecting to get married. 

Cam (that's her nickname) quickly gets bored being at home all day, so she decides to attend a ball hosted by the princess of the kingdom, named Princess Brie. She quickly catches the attention of Brie and they become friends. They finds themselves falling in love with each other, but Cam is worried about her secret of pretending to be a boy getting out. Luckily, Brie's other friends, Ricotta and Gorgonzola (or Zola for short) help out with the situation. They also all like to bond over grilled cheese sandwiches. 

This book was so fun! I love how everything and everyone's names was themed around cheese, which is one of my favorite foods. The book seems to be set in a world based on historical Europe, but there is some modern elements in it, too. So it's a kind of anachronistic world. I found that to be neat.

The story itself reminded me heavily of a lot of old school shojo manga. On the back in the author bio it says the author grew up reading a lot of shojo manga. So there's their inspiration! Even the artstyle looked like old school shojo manga, in my opinion. 

Yeah, this was 5 stars!