📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Royal We
AUTHOR: Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan
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Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 7, 2015
I got this book from the library because I was approved to read the sequel “The Heir Affair” and I wanted to get a feel for the characters. Some of the reviews on Goodreads said it was too long (the audiobook is 17 hours!!!!!) and the characters weren’t complex enough and it should have been shorter. So I went into it with those expectations.
To me, it was like The Crown meets Christmas Price meets Princess Diaries. I actually really liked the characters even though I felt like the main character, Rebecca, was little all over the place. I still really felt for her and wanted her to be happy. I mean The Shopholic Series is one of my favs and this book definitely had the same kind of vibe. I actually liked this book so much I want to purchase it in physical form and read it again.
So yes, be prepared it’s long and yes there are a ton of characters. But sometimes you just wanna read fun books that take you away, right?
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Small Summary:
American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour and royalty, fame and fortune. Yet it’s Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain’s future king. And when Bex can’t resist falling for Nick, the person behind the prince, it propels her into a world she did not expect to inhabit, under a spotlight she is not prepared to face.
Dating Nick immerses Bex in ritzy society, dazzling ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace with him and his charming, troublesome brother, Freddie. But the relationship also comes with unimaginable baggage: hysterical tabloids, Nick’s sparkling and far more suitable ex-girlfriends, and a royal family whose private life is much thornier and more tragic than anyone on the outside knows. The pressures are almost too much to bear, as Bex struggles to reconcile the man she loves with the monarch he’s fated to become.
Which is how she gets into trouble.
Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, Bex is faced with whether everything she’s sacrificed for love-her career, her home, her family, maybe even herself-will have been for nothing.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.