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A review by thebookberrie
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Well this was a book! I'm so upset because a couple of my friends have liked this book so I was hoping I would too but no... I don't.
A Princess in Theory is about a woman named Naledi who has been getting spam emails about how she's betrothed to a prince. Only the emails aren't spam. Prince Thabiso is the only heir to Thesolo and has decided to track down his missing betrothed.
I liked the beginning part and I did like Naledi's character but this book quickly fell in territory that did not work for me. Thabiso just shows up in Naledi's life and literally stalks her. Literally. He shows up at her job pretending to be a new hire and then he bribe's Naledi's elderly neighbor to take a vacation so he can live next to Naledi. They soon begin a sexual relationship, all while he lies about his name and who he is. It was absolutely disgusting and of course she forgives him but I don't. I just can't get behind that kind of thing and it was all shady as hell.
A romance novel and I hate the romance? Yeah this wasn't going well. To make matters worse, Thabiso is so ridiculously clueless about human life he doesn't even seem like a prince from another country. No, he feels like an alien sent beamed down from space to try to pretend to be human but is spectacularly bad at it.
The plot was not believable. None of this ended up being believable and as the book went on, it just kept getting worse. Maybe if this had taken place in a fantasy world or another reality where any of this made sense I would have believed it. The bad guy and big deal at the end just had me dead because it was just so badly done. It was all so unnecessary and extra too?? This is a romance novel, who cares about any of that?? Everything was solved SO EASILY too, even the romance.
Unfortunately not the book for me and I'm bummed.
A Princess in Theory is about a woman named Naledi who has been getting spam emails about how she's betrothed to a prince. Only the emails aren't spam. Prince Thabiso is the only heir to Thesolo and has decided to track down his missing betrothed.
I liked the beginning part and I did like Naledi's character but this book quickly fell in territory that did not work for me. Thabiso just shows up in Naledi's life and literally stalks her. Literally. He shows up at her job pretending to be a new hire and then he bribe's Naledi's elderly neighbor to take a vacation so he can live next to Naledi. They soon begin a sexual relationship, all while he lies about his name and who he is. It was absolutely disgusting and of course she forgives him but I don't. I just can't get behind that kind of thing and it was all shady as hell.
A romance novel and I hate the romance? Yeah this wasn't going well. To make matters worse, Thabiso is so ridiculously clueless about human life he doesn't even seem like a prince from another country. No, he feels like an alien sent beamed down from space to try to pretend to be human but is spectacularly bad at it.
The plot was not believable. None of this ended up being believable and as the book went on, it just kept getting worse. Maybe if this had taken place in a fantasy world or another reality where any of this made sense I would have believed it. The bad guy and big deal at the end just had me dead because it was just so badly done. It was all so unnecessary and extra too?? This is a romance novel, who cares about any of that?? Everything was solved SO EASILY too, even the romance.
Unfortunately not the book for me and I'm bummed.