AUTHOR: Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
STARTED: July 18, 2015
FINISHED: July 23, 2015
PAGES: 464
GENRE: Fiction
FIRST SENTENCE: I don't know what to do.
SUMMARY: [From BN] 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.
THOUGHTS: This book is like junk food or bad TV. It's not that it's necessarily bad in and of itself (and this is definitely not bad), but it's addictive and you want way to much of it at one time. I stayed up until 3:30am two nights in a row to finish this... work be damned. The Husband was out of town for work so no one was there to remind me to go to bed. I wanted more and I wanted it now.
There's not much that I can actually say about this book other than it is addictively written and is basically fanfiction of Kate, Pippa, William, and Harry. I LOVED every minute of it. The only reason this does not get a solid 10/10 is because, while I would totally read a sequel or spin-off, I don't see myself going back to re-read this book. But, oh man, was it fantastic while it lasted.
RATING: 8/10
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