Synopsis
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.
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Review
What in the hell was that ending!?! Paper Princess was going about the way I thought it would go, and the book bomb dropped.
Paper Princess is a bully romance, where Ella is forced to move in with the Royal family, and the sons are not huge fans of hers. I have to admit I didn’t much understand the point of the bullying in this one. I know they wanted her to leave, but I feel like maybe a little more explanation as to why would have been nice. Especially when other women in their dad’s life seemed to be taking more advantage of him.
I did enjoy the twists and turns of this book, and if you didn’t guess from the first sentence of this review, it ends on a major cliffhanger, so you’ve been warned. I liked Ella a lot, but I still don’t totally get her infatuation with Reed. Other than him being super hot, I never fully understood what she saw in him, especially since he was such an ass. All of the characters have baggage in this book, and that helps give them depth. I hope the next book goes more into detail about the Royal family secrets because I think there are some and maybe more about Ella’s dad.
That ending makes me want to pick up the next book right away because there has to be some explanation for that, right?
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