All the characters I love in one book. Alyssa Cole did it again by covering several important issues manipulation, grief, anxiety, gender identity, and how gaming impacts irl relationships. I loved Nya's storyline to find her footing within relationships (friendships and romantic). She was tender, vulnerable, and sharp at the tongue, it was refreshing.

Only draw back everything wrapped up pretty quickly.

I completely freaked out when I got the notification that I’d been approved for an ARC of A Prince on Paper. I have been dying for Johan’s story because OF COURSE there had to be a tortured soul longing for love underneath all that playboy prince swagger…(Gimme!)

But Nya. Nya was my favorite part of this story. Sometimes a great heroine is a woman who from page one is lit up from the inside with her unwavering confidence. But sometimes a great heroine is a bent-but-not-broken woman who learns to stand in her own strength despite her fears and insecurities. That’s Nya. And, let’s be real, that’s the kind of heroine most of us relate to the most.

Johan and Nya are very heart-squeezy together. They’re both exactly what the other one needs to grow and they have maaarvelous bedroom chemistry too. Alyssa Cole writes fully human characters with emotional depth and still keeps everything light and fun. A Prince on Paper just might be my favorite in the Reluctant Royals series. Loved this book!

However, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series then I would suggest you do that before jumping into this one. It’s a stand-alone but I think you’ll enjoy it more having read the others first. They’re all great! This book is set to release on April 30, 2019. But you can preorder it now, and you SHOULD, because A Prince on Paper is wonderful.

I am totally in LOVE with the reluctant royals series! The other 2 were so adorable and this 3rd one is my favorite! Nya and Johan are such likable characters and have you begging for their futures by the end! I enjoyed the NYC locale and the Royal Wedding Stuff. This book is just the right amount of royalties, comedies and love. A must read!! Alyssa Cole knocks it out of the park again !

This book was fab! I liked Nya so much and appreciated learning how she worked through her past and navigated relationships in her life now.

It seems like with each subsequent book in this series, Alyssa Cole gets bolder with her characters and plot points. The world she has built in the Reluctant Royals series is incredibly rich and the characters leap off the page. Nia is a fully realized heroine, who becomes stronger and more confident throughout the book as she challenges her insecurities and copes with the abuse she faced from her father. And Johan isn't quite a prince, but royal enough, who is very considerate about Nia's needs. I also appreciate the way Cole wove in a story about one of the characters determining their gender identity, and I hope she does this more in the future because she wrote the character very thoughtfully and kindly. Alyssa Cole is an author that I keep returning to - her books are incredibly rewarding because of her thoughtful characters and interesting plots.

I really enjoyed this! I had read the second one in the series but not the first. I’ll have to pick that up at some point. I really enjoyed the modern “historical”. The writing is on point. Jo jo was swoon worthy. Overall I really enjoyed it. Thank you for the ARC!

A Prince on Paper is the third book in Alyssa Cole's Reluctant Royals series (although there are also two novellas). I haven't read the novellas yet, but I'd recommend reading the two full length books in the series before this one. I've really enjoyed all three books; Cole has created a wonderful, engaging world. This book features Nya, cousin to the princess of Thesolo whose father is a notorious criminal, and Johan, step-brother to the prince of Liechtienbourg and notorious playboy. I loved both characters - Nya is dealing with a lifetime of psychological abuse from her father, and Johan has issues with both fame and his family. I love these books. Cole treats her characters' issues and pasts with sensitivity but she also imbues the books with humor and wonderful details. (The Liechtienbourgian sayings are delightful.) Highly recommended.

"A Prince on Paper" is the third novel in Alyssa Cole's Reluctant Royals series. Johan and Nya are two characters from the first couple of books that were not fleshed out overly well. But by the end of the book, they are my favorite pairing from any of Alyssa Cole's novels. Fans will not be disappointed with this book.

She plays dating sims and he's obsessed with fairy tales - how am I not going to love this book?! A Prince on Paper is my absolute favorite in a series of amazing books. I feel like I've loved each subsequent book more than the last, and I loved this one so much it was physically painful (to my heart).

I was so excited to finally get Nya's book. She's been an intriguing character to me every since A Princess in Theory, and then I loved her emerging and finding herself in bits and pieces (as seen via group text chats) in A Duke by Default. I don't always slate people into Hogwarts houses while I read, but every so often a character comes along and beats you over the head with how VERY MUCH the epitome of a Hufflepuff they are, and that is Nya. She has been so hurt, but despite that she goes on being honest and open and loving, and I JUST WANT TO HUG HER ALL UP.

And then there's Johan, who's also been hurt and is fascinated by Nya because she is so open and honest, and free with her heart while he's locked himself away. He's so obsessed with fairy tales and doesn't seem to realize that he's made himself the princess locked away in a tower of his own making.

This is the kind of book I want to throw at people's heads when they say romance novels are trash or guilty pleasures or shallow. There are SO MANY complicated issues and deep themes at play in this book, I can't even begin to touch on them all in a review let alone do them justice. I want to carry copies of this book around and when people make disparaging comments about romance I want to thrust a copy of A Prince on Paper into their hands and say "Shut your mouth, open your mind, read this book, and then we can talk about whether or not romance novels are shallow trash." In this book Alyssa Cole not only focuses on the romantic relationship between two people (which is fantastic, and their chemistry is BAM BOOM POW!), but also on the relationship between Johan and his step-father and half-sibling and how Johan deals with the death of his mother, Nya dealing with the fallout of the emotional and physical abuse the suffered at the hands of her father and finding her own way forward, a non-binary character struggling with how to let their family know about their identity (also, WTG Nya being super the most awesome best), focus on toxic and abusive relationships... Also, the sex scenes are hot and the romance between Nya and Johan is amazing - alternatingly adorable and butterflies-in-the-stomach inducing and heartbreaking, because there is nothing wrong with that and it's also a great element of romance. ;)

This is the third book in the Reluctant Royals series, and while it can technically can be read as a stand alone, this series is really best if read in order. To get the full impact of Nya's story, you really do need to read the first book, A Princess in Theory, and there are MAJOR SPOILERS for book 1 in this book. I highly recommend you read this series in order - and don't miss the novella, book #2.5, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy! There's also a final novella coming out about Portia's sister Reggie, which looks like it will be the final book/novella in the series, Can't Escape Love, and if the series continues on trend it will somehow manage to be EVEN BETTER than all the books that have come before. ;)

This is the third full-length novel in the Reluctant Royals series, and although a reader who has not read the previous two books in the series can follow the story, I think it may not work as well for readers who have not read at least the first book in the series. There are frequent references to events from the first book and although those events are summarized in this book, I don't think that has the same impact as having read that story too.

Fortunately, I have read all the previous books in the series, and I found Nya and Johan's story fun, funny, and delightfully awkward at times. It was nice to check in on characters from the first two books, but also see Nya and Johan shine in their own story.

It’s hard to pick a favorite in Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series, but this might just be it for me. (Okay, it’s a three-way tie for first...not counting the novellas.) Johan has spent the last decade as a carefree playboy prince, a tabloid magnet who seems to love the spotlight. Only—he doesn’t. He’s been protecting his younger sibling by stealing focus from the press. Nya is trying to dream big in her own life, stepping out from the shadow of her manipulative father, but she’s having trouble getting anywhere. After an accidental arrangement pushes the two together into a fake romance, will they be able to resist the possibility of the real thing?

SO GOOD. I think this is my favorite-ist of her books yet. I haven't read the novellas in this series yet, but I definitely will, because I've been hoping for Reggie's story. I'm excited to see what Cole does next in contemporaries, because I think I like the escapism of royalty better than the starkness of her historical Civil War romances.

Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for the digital ARC.