A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1)

by Alyssa Cole

She worked hard—so much harder than she should have had to, really. That was the problem. When you worked twice as hard all the time, working at the average rate was slacking off.

excitement was just another name for expectation, and expectations were the fastest route to disappointment.

People didn’t get rid of things they found useful. In theory, that is.

“Because men make life harder for women who say no, especially women who look like me,”

an unironic display of how, when it came to Africa, foreigners had no qualms about taking the pieces they wanted and rearranging them as they saw fit.