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A review by geo_ix
Una principessa ribelle by Jodi Ellen Malpas
2.0
This took me 6 days to read because I genuinely didn’t want to keep reading. It wasn’t 100% awful, and I liked some parts, but it was super slow and the heroine was NOT for me. She was spoilt and bratty but acted like she never did anything wrong and everyone was out to get her. I think if we saw more of her family ‘hating’ her and not just her thinking they’re all dicks out for her blood that I would have felt more for her, but as it was she was a messy 30 year old who wasn’t ever mature or responsible for anything & she was just as bad as all of them to me. She’s disgusted by the guy she sleeps with getting with a sex worker, and instantly he’s disgusting, but she was more disgusted in that than the fact he had a wife. They get annoyed their staff is always cleaning up her messes, she claims she never asks the, to clean them up but also totally expects her messes to be cleaned up. She knows the press twist stories, immediately jumps on the hero for a story because it HAS to be true, but when the media runs a story on her blowing it out of proportion it’s awful and her life sucks.
It picked up in the end, but was also so damn dramatic. I’d probably like this more in a movie format than a book. It’s that cheesy kind of dramatic that would work better for a quick 2hr movie rather than the hours and hours it took me to read this. I also think this was... too long for what it was? And their relationship is so weird, especially how it starts but overall my biggest complaint is the heroine. She’s a 30 year old child with no world experience and is delusional. She said she once she jumped in a cab without any money and let her people deal with it after. She also ‘breaks out’ of her ‘prison’ and hides from her guard to runs through London for 40 minutes with a ‘disguise’ on (ugg books and a baseball cap) to be with her man.
Will I read the other book? Maybe. I want to see if there’s any character growth but I also hoped it would happen in this book and it didn’t so I’m weary. We’ll see.
It picked up in the end, but was also so damn dramatic. I’d probably like this more in a movie format than a book. It’s that cheesy kind of dramatic that would work better for a quick 2hr movie rather than the hours and hours it took me to read this. I also think this was... too long for what it was? And their relationship is so weird, especially how it starts but overall my biggest complaint is the heroine. She’s a 30 year old child with no world experience and is delusional. She said she once she jumped in a cab without any money and let her people deal with it after. She also ‘breaks out’ of her ‘prison’ and hides from her guard to runs through London for 40 minutes with a ‘disguise’ on (ugg books and a baseball cap) to be with her man.
Will I read the other book? Maybe. I want to see if there’s any character growth but I also hoped it would happen in this book and it didn’t so I’m weary. We’ll see.