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A review by loveambreen
How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
5.0
I'm giving this 5 stars because Alyssa Cole's novels are always better than any other romance novel I can find, and I genuinely love everything about this world she's built.
That said, on an Alyssa Cole scale, this is probably a 3.5-4 out of 5. While I loved these characters and their dynamics, I still found myself most excited when previous characters popped up. This book didn't have the goofy fun of A Prince on Paper, but the character work wasn't as deeply done as A Duke By Default.
Cole's endings are always kind of rushed and that's still the case in this book, but to a lesser extent. But I'm not sure if that's because she's gotten better at it or because there wasn't as much plot that could be feasibly rushed.
The summary also felt kind of misleading. I don't have a problem with what the book turned out to be, but I was under the impression that things would happen much earlier and much more dramatically than they actually did. The broad outline was actually more formulaic than I assumed based on the summary.
That said, on an Alyssa Cole scale, this is probably a 3.5-4 out of 5. While I loved these characters and their dynamics, I still found myself most excited when previous characters popped up. This book didn't have the goofy fun of A Prince on Paper, but the character work wasn't as deeply done as A Duke By Default.
Cole's endings are always kind of rushed and that's still the case in this book, but to a lesser extent. But I'm not sure if that's because she's gotten better at it or because there wasn't as much plot that could be feasibly rushed.
The summary also felt kind of misleading. I don't have a problem with what the book turned out to be, but I was under the impression that things would happen much earlier and much more dramatically than they actually did. The broad outline was actually more formulaic than I assumed based on the summary.