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A review by ibatoo
The Rules of Royalty by Cale Dietrich
3.0
Source of Book: NetGalley
Kind of Book: E-Book
Personal Tagline: Am I the drama? Am I the problem?
Miles traveled: 5,210-ish
Song I Associate- Miracles Happen by Myra
Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press and Wednesday Books for this E-arc. All opinions are my own.
I saw Princess Diaries and Red White Royal Blue in the same sentence and I was automatically sold on this book. Unfortunately I think that may have set my expectations for this book negatively. On Jamie's 17 birthday he finds out he is the son of king and that his mom who raised him kept this from him as to respect his bio-mom's wishes. He heads to Europe for the summer with his family and there meets Prince Erik. Everyone loves Jamie. The end.
I thought this book was very fluffy and a light read and although I enjoyed it it doesn't really stand out to me because of the lack of drama/conflict. Everyone is so friendly and just accepts that Jamie is wonderful and adores him from the get go, I kept expecting for the other shoe to drop but it never did (yes there is one person but the problem they caused is solved so quickly I don't think it counts). Its remarked several times that he's good at everything he does and that he's stepped into the role remarkably well. I expected for there to be more angst and grappling with identity/expectations/life trajectories but maybe he's just way more adjusted than I would ever be in that kind of scenario.
All this to say I did like this book, but I do think this is more of a YA YA book, that is too say the younger high school me would have eaten this up no questions asked. I just think that it was a little to sweet for me and had very thick main character armor for all those involved.
Kind of Book: E-Book
Personal Tagline: Am I the drama? Am I the problem?
Miles traveled: 5,210-ish
Song I Associate- Miracles Happen by Myra
Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press and Wednesday Books for this E-arc. All opinions are my own.
I saw Princess Diaries and Red White Royal Blue in the same sentence and I was automatically sold on this book. Unfortunately I think that may have set my expectations for this book negatively. On Jamie's 17 birthday he finds out he is the son of king and that his mom who raised him kept this from him as to respect his bio-mom's wishes. He heads to Europe for the summer with his family and there meets Prince Erik. Everyone loves Jamie. The end.
I thought this book was very fluffy and a light read and although I enjoyed it it doesn't really stand out to me because of the lack of drama/conflict. Everyone is so friendly and just accepts that Jamie is wonderful and adores him from the get go, I kept expecting for the other shoe to drop but it never did (yes there is one person but the problem they caused is solved so quickly I don't think it counts). Its remarked several times that he's good at everything he does and that he's stepped into the role remarkably well. I expected for there to be more angst and grappling with identity/expectations/life trajectories but maybe he's just way more adjusted than I would ever be in that kind of scenario.
All this to say I did like this book, but I do think this is more of a YA YA book, that is too say the younger high school me would have eaten this up no questions asked. I just think that it was a little to sweet for me and had very thick main character armor for all those involved.