A review by rjordan19
Royally Screwed by Emma Chase
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