Royally Screwed Book Review
Avalon’s Book of the Month – April Edition
Royally Screwed (Royally #1)
By Emma Chase
Book Format: Paperback
Time to Finish: less than a day
✨✨✨✨ handfuls of Fairy dust
Nicholas Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka His Royal Hotness, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and unabashedly arrogant; hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down to you.
Then, one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty who doesn't bow down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.
Nicholas wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir apparent is used to getting what he wants.
Dating a prince isn't what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would be.
There's a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. While they've traded in horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces, and haven't chopped anyone's head off lately, the royals are far from accepting of this commoner.
But to Olivia, Nicholas is worth it.
Nicholas grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in full force. In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is and, more importantly, who he wants to be: a King... or the man who gets to love Olivia forever.
I loved this book. It was the cutest story, with the cutest ending. The couple was adorable (or at least they were by the end) and I even enjoyed the secondary characters. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it. I loved our Male lead, he was a complete and utter douche, but his character development was absolutely stunner. And Olivia, she was hilarious. I loved that she didn't bow down to him, and that pie to the face was the best part of the book, Nicholas definitely deserved it.
But that didn't mean I wasn't frustrated. Frustrated with every single one of Olivia's choices. Every single time Nicholas second guessed her motives. I also didn't like how weak Olivia was. I was promised a strong character what I got as a girl who threw her standards out the window. She was panting and begging for all the debauchery that Nicholas had awaiting her and sure, fine, but don’t bitch about it afterwards.
But while this book made me so angry at times I shook it violently, it was still adorable. I was desperate for Nicholas and Olivia to figure their shit out. I was fully invested in everything that was happening in this novel. Olivia may have been weak0willed and a desperate sex fiend but I wanted her to be happy, specifically with Nicholas. I was unable to put this book down and I think anyone else who like saucy romances will like this book too.