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My Review:Title: Paper Princess (The Royals, #1)
Author: Erin Watt, Elle Kennedy, Jen Frederick
Series: The Royals #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: April 4th 2016
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 370
Genres: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Young Adult
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:
Blurb:There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.
From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.
These Royals will ruin you…
Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone.
Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.
Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals.
He might be right.
Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.
OMG I thought I finished this review already! Ugh, now I have to try to recall all the things…..
Well, I do have a favorite quote…
“Fate is for the weak—those people who don’t have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be. I’m not there yet. I don’t have enough power, but I will some day.”
Okay, here goes. I fricking loved this book! It reminded me of Tijan’s Fallen Crest High series that I also love. Although these kinds of books are what I call my ‘guilty pleasure’ books. I generally don’t like over the top drama in YA but some do pull me in and that’s what happened here.
Ella is pretty awesome. I totally believed her reasoning why she became a stripper. I even admired her for doing what she had to do to get it done. My stubborn streak was in agreement with her attitude and I cheered when she didn’t take any shit from the Royal boys and even antagonized them. Although I never did get what Reed and Ella saw in each other.
I guess they recognized how broken they both were. The whole ‘like attracts to like’. I’m more of an opposites attract person so that kinda went over my head. I felt their attraction could have been written a bit more thoroughly. It just seems like they have a more physical attraction than anything else in this book.
I found Reed to be a huge jackass and while I have read the other books in this series and he has redeemed himself since, in this book he is shallow, emotionally stunted and just an all around dumbass.
The ral winner in this book for me was….surprise surprise, Callum and Easton. I liked how hard Callum tried, even though it was a bit late,he never gave up. Easton was so damaged and had a bit of self sabotage in him as well. I don’t know why but I wanted him to do well and was constantly rooting for him throughout the book.
Whew, I try to keep my reviews down to four paragraphs but I couldn’t help myself. 🙂
Dude, you have a paragraph limit?? *snort* I love you. I just babble until I feel I’ve gotten it all out. 😛
Also, you have no idea how happy I am that this one worked for you!