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jnjackson's review against another edition
3.0
This book was a lot heavier than I thought it would be! Maybe it was all the confusion and sadness of the teen years, and losing boyfriends, and fighting with siblings... but it made me quite sad. Overall, it was a good read though.
tropic_anaaa's review against another edition
3.0
I felt like this was a two-star book for nearly three hundred pages. The characters seemed shallow and vain (the only ones who weren't were never featured in the story), and I couldn't stand to hear them complain about their first-world issues. Luckily, the characters underwent major character development, and I really like how they ended up. That's not to say I didn't have issues with this book; everyone was waaaay upper middle class, or simply middle class and they seemed to continually beat their "friends" down to improve themselves. The plot was somewhat boring, but the resulting characters were lovely.
ameserole's review against another edition
3.0
By looking at the cover of this book, Romancing the Throne, I was immediately intrigued. My first initial thought was...hmm two girls fighting over the same guy (seems cliché but I'm still interested. Would these two girls be best friends, ex-best friends, enemies for life? Who is this guy? Is he new? Is he extremely popular? Well with the word throne that could mean that he's like king of the school (mr. popular of some sort) or he could very well be a prince.
Boy was I slightly disappointed when I found out what this book was about. Romancing the Throne is about two sisters, Charlotte and Libby, and at different points in the book they have each dated the same guy, who is a prince and goes by Edward. So, first off Charlotte is completely shallow and I actually hated her throughout the book. I just don't understand why her main goal is just to marry the prince! UGHHH can I please get a book recommendation where the main character has realistic and achievable goals?!?
Other than that, this book is set in "England" and I say that because not once do you get that English accent in the book. Honestly it should have just been set in America because that would have made more sense...and you know not having a prince.
Boy was I slightly disappointed when I found out what this book was about. Romancing the Throne is about two sisters, Charlotte and Libby, and at different points in the book they have each dated the same guy, who is a prince and goes by Edward. So, first off Charlotte is completely shallow and I actually hated her throughout the book. I just don't understand why her main goal is just to marry the prince! UGHHH can I please get a book recommendation where the main character has realistic and achievable goals?!?
Other than that, this book is set in "England" and I say that because not once do you get that English accent in the book. Honestly it should have just been set in America because that would have made more sense...and you know not having a prince.
sophsparklz's review against another edition
2.0
First few chapters and last few chapters were cute.
Ok I LOVE Libby and Edward. Charlotte is annoying af. I would tolerate her as a secondary character but she’s incredibly uneventful as the narrator. I would like this book a lot more if Libby was the narrator.
Ok I LOVE Libby and Edward. Charlotte is annoying af. I would tolerate her as a secondary character but she’s incredibly uneventful as the narrator. I would like this book a lot more if Libby was the narrator.
cocopurplebooks's review against another edition
1.0
I'm so happy and relieved that I finished this book. It was not very enjoyable at all. The main character Charlotte was so annoying. I didn't like the fact that the book was in her point of view. It should've been told in her and Libby's point of view. Libby was a bland character to me and Mary Sue ish. She was a good sister but I didn't like her dating her sister's ex boyfriend.
The characters were all bland and annoying. Like I didn't care for anyone. The friends were annoying and underdeveloped. I didn't even see the appeal of Prince Edward either. Charlotte and Libby were going to ruin their relationship over some bland guy who drove a deep wedge between the girls. The love triangle was boring and since Charlotte was the main POV character,she was the only one who grew in the end. She became less bratty and more mature.
The writing was also really cringeworthy and I felt like the author was trying too hard to write like a teenager. Snapchat was mentioned every five seconds which was so annoying. I like reading about fictional rich people and their scandalous secrets but this book was not for me. Good riddance!
The characters were all bland and annoying. Like I didn't care for anyone. The friends were annoying and underdeveloped. I didn't even see the appeal of Prince Edward either. Charlotte and Libby were going to ruin their relationship over some bland guy who drove a deep wedge between the girls. The love triangle was boring and since Charlotte was the main POV character,she was the only one who grew in the end. She became less bratty and more mature.
The writing was also really cringeworthy and I felt like the author was trying too hard to write like a teenager. Snapchat was mentioned every five seconds which was so annoying. I like reading about fictional rich people and their scandalous secrets but this book was not for me. Good riddance!
allibruns's review against another edition
2.0
Why do these girls speak like Americans? Why, they are supposed to be British.
literallykalasin's review against another edition
1.0
As a shameless fan of the Fug Girls' [b:The Royal We|22875451|The Royal We|Heather Cocks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1421107274s/22875451.jpg|42439906], I was hoping this would be a fun teen-version romp of a book. I was so, so wrong. So. Wrong.
Point 1: the author swears herself to be a huge Anglophile, but all of the characters sounded so American, with a few odd British-isms thrown in. And this is coming from me, a girl who grew up with one British parent in Canada, and has acquired all sorts of confused British-isms as a result. Nadine Jolie Courtney might have been better off taking the "Royal We" approach and making her two sisters American transplants, because they ended up sounding very much like ones anyway.
Point 2: this is Pippa and Kate Middleton fan fiction, with very little window dressing. Except it's told from Pippa's point of view, and Book-Pippa is about as fully-fleshed a character as a cardboard cut-out. She was the most dull first-person narrator I think I've ever suffered through, and I read the entire Twilight series. It was a lot of angsty whinging about her relationship with her friends, the Prince, and over-extending her falling-out with her sister. Book-Kate would've been a much more interesting narrator, because she's the one that had to change schools in the middle of the year due to academic scandal, had to make new friends, who falls for a boy who is dating her sister, and deals with the fall-out because of it. Her story arc was much more fleshed, even though you were getting it from Book-Pippa's perspective, and Book-Pippa (who is so dull I can't even remember her name, and I finished reading this book LAST NIGHT) has a self-actualization moment only after being shown the way by a boy who likes her, who is himself more tinfoil than person.
Really, if you want to read some royal fanfiction, just do yourself a favour and read "The Royal We".
Point 1: the author swears herself to be a huge Anglophile, but all of the characters sounded so American, with a few odd British-isms thrown in. And this is coming from me, a girl who grew up with one British parent in Canada, and has acquired all sorts of confused British-isms as a result. Nadine Jolie Courtney might have been better off taking the "Royal We" approach and making her two sisters American transplants, because they ended up sounding very much like ones anyway.
Point 2: this is Pippa and Kate Middleton fan fiction, with very little window dressing. Except it's told from Pippa's point of view, and Book-Pippa is about as fully-fleshed a character as a cardboard cut-out. She was the most dull first-person narrator I think I've ever suffered through, and I read the entire Twilight series. It was a lot of angsty whinging about her relationship with her friends, the Prince, and over-extending her falling-out with her sister. Book-Kate would've been a much more interesting narrator, because she's the one that had to change schools in the middle of the year due to academic scandal, had to make new friends, who falls for a boy who is dating her sister, and deals with the fall-out because of it. Her story arc was much more fleshed, even though you were getting it from Book-Pippa's perspective, and Book-Pippa (who is so dull I can't even remember her name, and I finished reading this book LAST NIGHT) has a self-actualization moment only after being shown the way by a boy who likes her, who is himself more tinfoil than person.
Really, if you want to read some royal fanfiction, just do yourself a favour and read "The Royal We".