Paper Princess by Erin Watt Review
5 Smooches
Synopsis
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.
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 boy is more magnetic than the last, but none 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.
Review
HOLY ADDICTIVE BOOK BATMAN!
“You should get away from here. These Royals will ruin you.”
I am not sure that truer words have ever been written, The Royals as a whole seemed destined to ruin anything that gets near them. While successful in business and power they are pure tragedy when it comes to anything that holds true meaning in life.
The Paper Princess was wildly addictive and the ending has me desperately trying to figure out when the next book in this series is going to be released. It has been a very long time since any book captivated my day and my thoughts like The Paper Princess. Every element I look for in a NA/YA book was present and even some I never knew I wanted. Ella is strong and detained to get away from the only life she has even known by any means necessary. Stripping at night and going to school during the day has her barely surviving after the death of her single mother until Callum Royal shows up claiming to be her legal guardian. Now 17 year old Ella is forced to move onto the Royal estate and live along side the 5 Royal boys and their dad. Sounds great right . . . rags to riches. Except not one of the Royal boys are happy top see her and all especially Reed are determined to make her life a living HELL. When the Royals rule the school and you become public enemy number one what do you do. If you are Ella you hold your own and fight back.
“What’s it like, sucking old man cock?”
“Your dad’s not bad, if that’s what you’re asking, but I find it super creepy that he wants to pull my hair and have me call him Daddy. Is everything okay at home?”
When the bitches as school attack her verbally she proves she can not only hold her own but put them in their place. While her internal dialogue shows that of a girl slowly breaking away, outwardly she has a strong resilient front. I could go on and on about the qualities that Ella possesses that make her the perfect heroine. She has a fierce sense of self and knows she can take care of her and not to count on anyone else. But at the same time while putting all the snooty rich entitled kids in their place she has a gentle vulnerability. Outwardly Ella puts off a vibe that she doesn’t care what the others say especially the Royal boys who say some terrible terrible things. But thanks to her inner dialogue we get to see that underneath it all she is lonely and vulnerable.
‘He doesn’t want me? Bullshit. If he didn’t want me then he wouldn’t have kissed me like he was a starving man and I was his only source of nourishment. If he didn’t want me, he wouldn’t have worshiped my body like it was the greatest gift he’d ever received, or held me in his arms until I fell asleep.’
Paper Princess is a dynamic story that was full of hilarious moments, gut wrenching events, provocative moments and a deviously angsty story line. I had no clue who I am rooting for this whole book and to be honest with you I thought towards the end I did and now I just don’t know. The flawless writing by these two amazing authors had be doubting how this could have possibly be written by two different and unique authors. The entire book is told from Ella’s POV and at no point could I tell where one author stopped and the other picked up. I am now on pins and needles awaiting any tid bit about this series desperately searching for clues. The Paper Princess is by far one of THE BEST books I have read so far in 2016.
~miranda
