🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 #Review of Paper Princess by Erin Watt

Title: Paper Princess

Series: The Royals

Author: Erin Watt

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Published: September 19, 2023 by Berkley

Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N 

Source: NetGalley

Reviewer: Crystal

Rating:  🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷/🌶️🌶️

The TikTok sensation Paper Princess , the first in the #1 New York Times bestselling The Royals series, now in a new special edition with bonus material!

From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.

These Royals will ruin you…

Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone.

 

That is until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal is more magnetic than the last, but none is as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.

 

Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals.

 

He might be right.

 

Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.

Crystal's Thoughts:

"I feel the need to warn you that, we Royals are pretty f*cked up. We're good in bed, but out of it? We're like a stage for hurricane."

Oh my gosh. I did not expect for this book/series to be crack but here I am...I just finished this first book and am now I'm four books deep in it. The Royals are incredibly addictive and I gobbled it all up. Angst, betrayal, secrets, tension, love, hate, obsession... Paper Princess has it all. Labeled as a YA but definitely has mature content and would work better in the NA subgenre. Reed and Ella were explosive together. And the familial drama was honestly insane, but in the best kind of way. I can't wait to see where this story leads next as it ended on quite the cliffhanger, and also what the rest of the brothers might be hiding behind their picture perfect exterior.

"Reed Royal has broken me. I've fallen from the sky and I'm not sure I can get up. Not this time."

Trope's to Look For:

✔️ Family Drama

✔️Enemies to Lovers

✔️ Ex-Stripper

✔️ High Society

✔️ Mean Girls

✔️ Step-Siblings (kind of)

✔️ Adult Themes (YA in age only)

✔️ Hidden Agendas

✔️ Lies & Secrets