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Paper Princess by Erin Watt

24 reviews

acornfel's review

dark funny fast-paced

4.0

For the genre and the subject matter this book delivers exactly what you'd expect from a gossip girl type novel with some spice. It has a few moments that feel really awkward pacing wise, but overall it was fun to read and it was really easy to just sit in the world of this book and not get distracted or tired of reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Classism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Alcoholism, and Addiction

venturajai31's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ok, had I known the MCs would be in high school, not sure I would’ve read it. That being said, once I got over that surprise, it was actually pretty good. I enjoyed this book a lot and found myself covering the next page so I didn’t jump ahead. I’m interested in the reading the other BUT be warned, their story does NOT END in this book. I was so bummed that I had another two books before it changed POV (in a five book series?! ughhh) but I will read it because I literally can’t not read them after the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent

lucycharm9's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I smelled something fishy on Brooke when Gideon acted weird when he came home and I could not be more wrong. She was a bitch grouping up with Dinah just for Royal's money. I think she blackmailed Gideon and Reed (I am afraid she might seuxally assulted them as well) behind Callum's back. Gideon and Reed kept it between themselves to protect everyone else in the house. That last chapter freaking crushed me.

Honestly I love this book because I live for drama and good angst. It gave me the impression of Gossip Girls playing on CW.

Heat: 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Bullying

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Death of parent

madalina0_0's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Death of parent

chels984's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

dkgreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Solid bully romance. Thought the character development was on point. The characters felt real and complex. Definitely enjoyed the writing style. Mild in the spice department, but the tension was good. Definitely had my suspicions about the situation at the end. Will be continuing this set for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, and Violence

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Cancer

teniamonet's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I started reading this book because I was listening to the audio drama ‘The Royals of Malibu’ which is based on this series. I was tired of waiting for weekly updates and at the time I thought the books would be just like the audio drama (I was wrong). I think I actually prefer the books over the audio drama. 

This book definitely became a guilty pleasure because by no means is the drama and the relationships that are portrayed in this book healthy (that’s okay though because not every book needs to be.) There’s a lot of sexism and toxicity book the book is also based in the south so…

This is your typical “good girl x bad boy” romance. That is if you can even classify Ella as a good girl and Reed as a bad boy (aside from trying to ruin Ella’s life before she got to Astor Prep and illegal street fighting Reed really isn’t even that much of a bad boy). Cliches aside this book was so entertaining to me. There were definitely moments where i was like “Ella stand up, have a backbone” but we wouldn’t have our main pairing if she did. 

Reading Paper Princess felt like I was just watching a new season of Gossip Girl. The ending of book 1 is pretty similar to how season 1 ended in the audio drama so i wasn’t too rattled, but Reed Royal count your days!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

2blueshoes's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

It’s YA novel trope bingo, folks! Get out your cards! As usual, we have traumatized teens acting like traumatized adults, a relationship rife with red flags, and a girl pursuing an emotionally unavailable guy. Add in weirdly troubling sexual sibling rivalry, the glorification of violence as foreplay, rich kids being rich kids, and over the top high school bullying - and we’ve got a clean sweep. 

I’m not going to tell you that I wasn’t glued to every page. This book is a litany of everything my empowered adult-self knows to avoid, and everything my sixteen year old self was taught to love in a book. Reading it was like watching a horrifying car crash happen and not being able to look away. Sia would be proud. #cheapthrills 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood

cutestreader's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexism, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

jerda's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Physical abuse and Bullying