Shy
I have so much nostalgia love for this book. I worked as a librarian's assistant in middle school and so I was able to order this book from the local high school to read (even though I think I was supposed to need permission from someone to read this book because it was “more mature”) . It was the first book I had read with such a wild, confident, loose-cannon type heroine and a more mature level of romance than what was available in the middle school library and I instantly fell in love. I remember really liking her dynamic with the male main character. I'll have to re-read so I can give it an updated review, but even just looking at the cover brings back good memories for me.
Still reading on Ch 8.
Disclaimer:The first two prince books had been my favorite in the series! I thought the characters were the most complex and well developed yet.
That being said, so far though, (up to chapter 8) I'm not at all disappointed in the content/plot but the writing is just not up to Samgels standard. Some chapters have the same poetic prose and are able to just effortlessly paint pictures in my mind, just as I've come to expect from them. Others feel like they were written by another author, or are just in an “early draft”.
Maybe its the fact that there are SO many plot threads running through this book, and so the plot is overwhelming the characters, but it almost feels like the depictions of verity and the princes are just caricatures or cardboard cutouts of the beautifully developed humans we got to meet in the first two books. I especially felt this way with Wicker Lex and Verity (so most of them I guess lol). Like are all saying the things they are “supposed to say” based off of who we knew them to be in the first two books but I haven't yet felt like they were living breathing beings, at least not in the same way as I did for the first two books in this trilogy.
I know the authors had a lot going on on their personal lives while writing this one, but I think I would've preferred they take their time and take longer with this book. So far its feeling like the writing was a bit rushed. Again, the princes have been my favorite house so far and I'm a bit worried with how this is going that I'll end up disappointed in the end.
5% On pause until I gather the patience to read this book
I'm glad its not just me not feeling this one. Coming from a solid 10/10 with Willa and Cade, this book felt so promising.
Let me just embarrass the shit out myself here and say that In my lifetime, I have probably read more Jasper Whitlock x Bella Swan Twilight fiction than any other piece of literature (Yes I called it literature
