While Nya was clearly very kind, and open minded, and altruistic and understanding and so forth, I wanted her to maybe be a bit more flawed, and have more of a personality. Due to her sheltered upbringing, she doesn't really want to put herself out there, and plays a number of fantasy romance games on her phone instead of talking to, you know, real men. She'd get ill and feel insecure, and only after her father was arrested after some sort of nefarious plot in book one (which I still haven't read) did Nya realise the truth and come to see that she needed to expand her horizons. She is inexperienced and has grown up very sheltered, because her father would actually secretly poison her every time she showed any signs of independence. The heroine of this book is Nya, who is very sweet and possibly a bit too perfect. At it turns out I like this better than A Duke by Default, but it still took me nearly a week to read it, which is an really unforgivably long time, considering the book has fewer than 400 pages, and shows that the book just isn't capturing my attention all that much. I keep reading such effusive reviews about Alyssa Cole's Reluctant Royals series, and I really do want to like the book. Nya and Johan both have good reasons to avoid love, but as desires are laid bare behind palace doors, they must decide if their fake romance will lead to a happily-ever-after. When a royal referendum threatens his brother’s future, a fake engagement is the perfect way to keep the cameras on him. When Nya returns home for a royal wedding, she accidentally finds herself up close and personal-in bed-with the real-life celebrity prince who she loves to hate.įor Johan von Braustein, the red-headed step-prince of Liechtienbourg, acting as paparazzi bait is a ruse that protects his brother-the heir to the throne-and his own heart. Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual dating games. #CBR11 Bingo: Birthday (Alyssa Cole's birthday is August 12th)

A prince on paper alyssa cole