Author: Ana Huang Genre: Romance Pages/Length: 497 pages
★★☆☆☆ 2.5 stars
Book Summary: Princess Bridget has a new bodyguard is extremely overprotective, but also happens to be extremely attractive. Romance between a princess and her bodyguard is forbidden, which makes it all the more appealing…
Book Review: This book was better than Twisted Love, but I still didn’t love it. It was so extremely unrealistic. I mean, a princess? A princess in college? A girl who is still a child in line to become the next queen? It’s just so far fetched. Aside from that, at least Bridget was a tolerable main character. I liked her and I liked Rhys, in contrast to Twisted Love (Ava and Alex were intolerable). I just don’t like how these relationships have dominant men and “inferior” women. At least Bridget and Rhys had some chemistry.
Quotes: Since I couldn’t find any good quotes, here are some that made me laugh (at the book not with it). “You’ll find out the hard way what happens when you bargain with the devil.” “Meanwhile, my eyes devoured her the way a lion would tear into a gazelle.”
Spoilers: I still hate the “you’re mine” trope. I think that Ana Huang makes it seem like these women are toys that belong to the men, and that these men can do whatever disgusting things they want and is painting the picture that it’s normal? If a guy calls me half of the words that these men use I am respectfully walking away and never turning back. It would be nice to see one of these girls take charge at least once. At least I could feel the tension between Rhys and Bridget, but the ten year age gap was very strange to me. It felt very illegal. Also, why do all of these characters have such weird, traumatic background stories? I don’t get these books and I don’t understand why everyone loves them.
