rjordan19's review
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 - There’s a mix but I found a lot of them just a touch short, or already started when we enter the scene
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine
When mains are first on page together: Pretty soon in (I didn't note this, but I want to say it's chapter 1 or 2??)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, 8 months later
Format: bought audiobook
Should I read in order?
This is the first in Chase’s Royally series.
Basic plot:
Nicholas goes to New York City to fetch his rowdy brother and meets a waitress that he instantly wants in his bed. Instead he gets a pie in the face.
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- hero has dimples!
- royalty
- flying lessons
- summer fling
- New York City / country of Wessco setting
- class difference – prince and the pie making waitress
- higher steam – 5 full scenes plus a few extras, fades, and shorts scenes
First line:
My very first memory isn’t all that different from anyone else’s.
My thoughts:
I really enjoyed this one. I did the audio and really adore Shane East as a narrator. The first ¾ of the story for me was just really sweet and cute. Big Cinderella/fairy tale vibes and a lot of fun. I liked the character development revealed through their discussions together. I loved how they spent the majority of the book together. If it had kept on that track, I would have been happy I read it and rated 4 stars...BUT. BUT! The ending ohhhh my gosh. It was so angsty and good to me. The ending just had me on the edge of my seat. My eyes were watering and I almost cried. I was angry – ANGRY – when people talked to me and made me stop listening. So, so good. I love that bite of all of is lost, a bit of cruelty, hurt, angst.
I don’t usually read contemporary but I really had fun with this one. I’ll be continuing with this series!
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- loss of parents remembered (plane crash)
- death of mother of heroine and emotional withdrawal of father
- alcoholism
- collections pressure and harassment by collection agency
- stalker behavior
- so there’s no infidelity here because the hero is not engaged yet to anyone but there is talk of a coming marriage the whole time they are in a relationship
- domestic violence/fighting – hero and his brother get into a fight, punching, etc but it’s not too rough (no lasting injuries)
- remembrance of hero’s girlfriend getting pregnant and 17 and miscarrying
- mention of attempted suicide
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex:
Chapter 9 – kiss
Chapter 10 – 🔥kisses, mention that she’s NOT hairless and he loves it, breast play, oral for her, missionary, and a blow job that fades
Chapter 11 – remembrance of sex
Chapter 11 – kisses
Chapter 13 – 🔥we enter an already started scene that ends up in a titty fucking scene
Chapter 18 – 🔥on a vanity, hero shaves the heroine’s legs and quim, oral for her, sex on the vanity with no condom
Chapter 19 – blow job that’s very short
Chapter 19 – 🔥brief bj, missionary
Chapter 20 – her on top (short)
Chapter 22 - 🔥missionary
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 - There’s a mix but I found a lot of them just a touch short, or already started when we enter the scene
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine
When mains are first on page together: Pretty soon in (I didn't note this, but I want to say it's chapter 1 or 2??)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, 8 months later
Format: bought audiobook
Should I read in order?
This is the first in Chase’s Royally series.
Basic plot:
Nicholas goes to New York City to fetch his rowdy brother and meets a waitress that he instantly wants in his bed. Instead he gets a pie in the face.
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- hero has dimples!
- royalty
- flying lessons
- summer fling
- New York City / country of Wessco setting
- class difference – prince and the pie making waitress
- higher steam – 5 full scenes plus a few extras, fades, and shorts scenes
First line:
My very first memory isn’t all that different from anyone else’s.
My thoughts:
I really enjoyed this one. I did the audio and really adore Shane East as a narrator. The first ¾ of the story for me was just really sweet and cute. Big Cinderella/fairy tale vibes and a lot of fun. I liked the character development revealed through their discussions together. I loved how they spent the majority of the book together. If it had kept on that track, I would have been happy I read it and rated 4 stars...BUT. BUT! The ending ohhhh my gosh. It was so angsty and good to me. The ending just had me on the edge of my seat. My eyes were watering and I almost cried. I was angry – ANGRY – when people talked to me and made me stop listening. So, so good. I love that bite of all of is lost, a bit of cruelty, hurt, angst.
I don’t usually read contemporary but I really had fun with this one. I’ll be continuing with this series!
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
Spoiler
- loss of parents remembered (plane crash)
- death of mother of heroine and emotional withdrawal of father
- alcoholism
- collections pressure and harassment by collection agency
- stalker behavior
- so there’s no infidelity here because the hero is not engaged yet to anyone but there is talk of a coming marriage the whole time they are in a relationship
- domestic violence/fighting – hero and his brother get into a fight, punching, etc but it’s not too rough (no lasting injuries)
- remembrance of hero’s girlfriend getting pregnant and 17 and miscarrying
- mention of attempted suicide
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Spoiler
Safe sex:
Spoiler
Yes, condoms used but eventually they rely on heroine’s birth control onlyChapter 9 – kiss
Chapter 10 – 🔥kisses, mention that she’s NOT hairless and he loves it, breast play, oral for her, missionary, and a blow job that fades
Chapter 11 – remembrance of sex
Chapter 11 – kisses
Chapter 13 – 🔥we enter an already started scene that ends up in a titty fucking scene
Chapter 18 – 🔥on a vanity, hero shaves the heroine’s legs and quim, oral for her, sex on the vanity with no condom
Chapter 19 – blow job that’s very short
Chapter 19 – 🔥brief bj, missionary
Chapter 20 – her on top (short)
Chapter 22 - 🔥missionary
haechans's review
3.0
I don’t know what to feel about Livvy immediately taking back Nicholas after he humiliated not only her but also her family. I mean, granted he did give up his country for her but just. I felt like it wasn’t enough for what she went through in those last days in the palace.
erinarkin20's review
5.0
Great story, fantastic narrators. Loved this and while I generally don't listen to romance on audio this one was perfect because Shane East's voice is amazing.
thereadingwren's review
5.0
5/5
Give me steamy royalty and kind yet feisty bakers any day. This was amazingly entertaining. So full of steam, I nearly choked when the first dirty thing fell out of Nicholas' mouth in the first chapter. Damn. I love the brashness of this, Nicholas is horny all the time and he's not afraid to say it... Same goes for Olivia and I absolutely adore it. None of the blushing virgin nonsense.
The whole situation is utterly unbelievable from start to finish but it's so damn entertaining that I don't even care. I don't care that their love seems to come more from sex than actual deep and meaningful conversation, I don't care that Nicholas is bratty and aggressive and possessive, I don't care that Olivia forgives him WAY too easily. I don't even care that basically all of the royalty aspects come directly from the current British royals. It's all just so fun and steamy that I love it.
The sex scenes were perfection, I'm a stickler for well written sex scenes and it's really rare that they're done well but Emma Chase has pulled it off. The chemistry between Nicholas and Olivia is palpable and I definitely felt their connection. The love part of it was a little instalove for me but like I said, I don't care.
I appreciate the depth to Nicholas and Olivia too, they were more than just this romance. Nicholas had a lot of baggage with the death of his parents and the mental state of his brother. Olivia had a failing business and an alcoholic father. They had their issues and it made them seem like real human beings. While there was a bit of 'romance fixes all the problems' I again didn't care.
I cannot wait to read the rest of this trilogy.
Give me steamy royalty and kind yet feisty bakers any day. This was amazingly entertaining. So full of steam, I nearly choked when the first dirty thing fell out of Nicholas' mouth in the first chapter. Damn. I love the brashness of this, Nicholas is horny all the time and he's not afraid to say it... Same goes for Olivia and I absolutely adore it. None of the blushing virgin nonsense.
The whole situation is utterly unbelievable from start to finish but it's so damn entertaining that I don't even care. I don't care that their love seems to come more from sex than actual deep and meaningful conversation, I don't care that Nicholas is bratty and aggressive and possessive, I don't care that Olivia forgives him WAY too easily. I don't even care that basically all of the royalty aspects come directly from the current British royals. It's all just so fun and steamy that I love it.
The sex scenes were perfection, I'm a stickler for well written sex scenes and it's really rare that they're done well but Emma Chase has pulled it off. The chemistry between Nicholas and Olivia is palpable and I definitely felt their connection. The love part of it was a little instalove for me but like I said, I don't care.
I appreciate the depth to Nicholas and Olivia too, they were more than just this romance. Nicholas had a lot of baggage with the death of his parents and the mental state of his brother. Olivia had a failing business and an alcoholic father. They had their issues and it made them seem like real human beings. While there was a bit of 'romance fixes all the problems' I again didn't care.
I cannot wait to read the rest of this trilogy.
diaryofthebookdragon's review
3.0
Royally Screwed has a cute cover and promised to deliver something new with modern royalty MCs. But sadly, it was the same as other contemporary romance novels I have read this year.
* Confident half-jerky hero with a dirty mouth.
* Independent heroine who sacrifices for her family.
* Cast of cute, quirky secondary characters (Liv's sister, servant Fergus etc.)
* Cute pet dog (Bosco).
* Family drama, parent neglect etc.
Not bad, but it wasn't funny or romantic enough to leave any big impression. [b:The Runaway Princess|13547080|The Runaway Princess|Hester Browne|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1341517377s/13547080.jpg|19112214] did the whole thing much better.
* Confident half-jerky hero with a dirty mouth.
* Independent heroine who sacrifices for her family.
* Cast of cute, quirky secondary characters (Liv's sister, servant Fergus etc.)
* Cute pet dog (Bosco).
* Family drama, parent neglect etc.
Not bad, but it wasn't funny or romantic enough to leave any big impression. [b:The Runaway Princess|13547080|The Runaway Princess|Hester Browne|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1341517377s/13547080.jpg|19112214] did the whole thing much better.