Review: Four Stars
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, New Adult
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If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery.
Every summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water.
Cottages that belonged to my family.
Each of those summers, my parents sent me away – summer camp and later, boarding school. Anything to keep me away from the royals and their partying.
I hadn’t been home in years, but when I finally come back for the summer, I see that not much has changed. Like all the summers I’d been gone, Prince Elias is back, but this time with an incognito security detail and no friends.
This time, there is no partying, no noise, no crowds. No reason at all to even think he was there. I’m given strict orders not to talk to him, not to even look in his direction, but he makes this an impossible task.
I may be doing everything in my power to stay away from him, but there is no one in the world who can say no to the future King of France.
Review:
I can tell you, I'm not disappointed with this book. I was expecting something more out of this when I read the synopsis. But, oh well.
It all begins with a family that is high the hierarchy that owns a bunch of beach houses. The royal family sons usually rent out the houses for the summer, and likes to host parties that revolve sex, drugs, alcohol, and a whole lot of fun and debauchery. Adeline, in her prime time years, 18 years old and daughter of the family that owns the houses. She goes to one of their masked parties the royals are hosting, and is on the balcony, waiting for her best friend to finish fucking some girl. A man appears and offers the experience of all the debauchery and affection and all that. In other words, he offers to fuck her in his room. She agrees. And omg, guess what? She's a virgin! Oh my god, sound the alarm, we have a virgin in the vicinity.
Honestly, I don't know why this author made it such a big deal she was a virgin. I'm surprised she gave her virginity to some random man. But you know what, fuck tradition. I think fucking a stranger on your first time would be fun. But of course, there is still the theme of the masks and the dark. So they fuck in the dark and they have no idea who each other are. After they fucked, she sneaks off and finds her best friend.
Her best friend tells her that she apparently fucked......drumrollllllllll...Prince Elias! What! Oh my god! Wow! Who would have seen that coming? *eye roll*
I know this would usually make it into such a big deal. But come on, the world-building into this was kind of shit. Finding out someone fucked a prince isn't even that big of a deal considering that the princes are known for being fuck boys.
Five years later, Adeline comes back as a successful party planner for the royals, and she was back in the country. She left America because her asshole boyfriend who worked for the newspaper had gotten the leak of her in a sex tape. Like really? Leave the country for that? Kim K leaked sex tape and look at her now. Anyway, so she sees Prince Elias again at the beach house and she's like oh fuck does he remember me? He does, by the way. A bunch of chapters go on and its about a bunch of banter and the prince being super surly and broody sometimes. I love that. However, we get to the middle of the book. Princes Elias is supposed is betrothed to some other princess.
Prince Elias pretends to use Adeline as a publicity stunt so she would stay. She stays. They fuck a lot. They connect. They fuck even more. They talk. They fuck even more. AND THEN, we get to the part where Adeline is misunderstood and overhears a conversation about her being used only for a publicity stunt. Elias chases after her. Elias changes the country for the better....and....the end.
Perfect ending, huh? NO. Holy fuck, not only did we not get much else banter and sexual tension in the rest of the book, we get some lameass happy ending.
The book was still good enough for me to rate it four stars though.
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