*It looks like there’s multiple editions of this book, but the one I read was a little over 500 pages and was published in 2021. *
I absolutely ADORED this book! It feels like this story, (about a secret foreign princess going to college in the US) has been done before, but it hasn’t been done in this way. The story is sweet and a little angsty, but never over the top. At first, the bickering between the hero and the heroine feels a little contrived, but I grew to love and crave their dynamic.
The book is surprising in some unique ways that I won’t go into here, but for instance, you would expect characters like the princess’s mom to be strict and uncaring, but it was the quite the opposite, and I loved her father, the King, so, so much, as he’s a loving and kind father.
I’ve seen some reviews critiquing that the book could have been shorter. I agree that it could have been cut down by one or two hundred pages, but honestly, my favourite romance books have a lot of meat to them, including backstory and side characters and subplots, and this book doesn’t disappoint in this regard. I’d rather have a character with a rich backstory than a cookiecutter hero and heroine and only scenes featuring the two of them together. When I read a book, I like being immersed in the world that the author has created, and Farnsworth did this fabulously with this book! I’m looking forward to checking out more of her stories.
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2022: This book fulfills the "A book about someone leading a double life" category.