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Royal Trouble

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A fun and just spicy enough read for readers who love the drama of the royal family and celebrity life.

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Royal Trouble is a cute story. The reformed bad boy royal and the b@stard daughter of a Duke...oh my.

If you enjoyed the first book in the series, you'll probably be all smiles for this one. While it's predictable, it's still fun.

What I didn't love was the errors. I get twitchy when I see mispelled proper nouns and such. It just yanks me out of the story. Oh well.

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A royal who needs to clean up his wild ways, a former classmate who lashed out against all things royal, and a discovery of the source of such pain mean one thing, who can be trusted when it comes to love and duty?

Alexander is far from the wild child he was back in school. When Every returns for the royal wedding will she be able to tell Alexander the truth behind the destruction of his love-hate relationship with the media?

Secrets are plentiful in the world of all things royal so when chemistry pulls the two classmates together again, will they survive the fallout?

Alterior motives, truth, trust, off the chart chemistry and a desire to be recognized, for finally understanding the role we all play and the duty we are born into.

Sometimes living a life expected means taking a chance to stand up for what you truly belive in.

Don't miss this must read.

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I just loved getting to enter this world. It was just so easy to get lost in and I just had so much fun with these characters. I look forward to reading more wonderful stories in this series.

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What is not to love about a Royals. This was it for me. Love it and will read more of here stories. This i was drawn into from the start.

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Overall rating: 3.5 stars

I really liked reading this book. The plot is somewhat expected but it takes you on a sweet and fast ride. What really makes the book is the characters, and I really felt them come alive within the book. It is not a life chaining romance, but it is pretty enjoyable and fun to read.

Royal Trouble tells the story of a playboy prince who has to turn a new leaf in order to represent a foundation that means a lot to him. I really liked how they played into his insecurities and his past trauma (specially the army and family drama.) He was a very rich character and his sweetness and sureness really made me love the story. Our main heroine is a journalist who at a young age started a page that revealed some of the royal's juiciest secrets. She wasn't as lovable, but her growth was also great to see. The way they also weaved into some family drama with her daddy issues was great but I feel it needed a little bit more of a development.

*received this book through net galley in exchange for an honest review*

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Royal Trouble was such a fun palette cleanser. Xander and Everly’s story was so well crafted that I just wanted so much more! I felt this book was rushed in places and wanted to know even more about them as individuals. I really felt Everly’s guilt over what she did and thought Xander was the perfect hero!

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Loved reading this one! As soon as I saw the cover and title, I knew it would be right up my alley. I have a major soft spot for contemporary royalty romances and this one didn't disappoint. I didn't read the first one (yet...) but that didn't take away my enjoyment at all. Loved seeing the characters get together and the gossip girl-esque vibe and I hope there's more books to this series!

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wow!! this book really truly blew me away! it was so very much fun to read and i am so excited to get to read more from this author in the future! thank you so much for this opportunity, netgalley!!!!

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After reading A Royal Disaster, I was really looking forward to diving into this one, and I was not disappointed! I think I actually liked this one better than the first, though I really enjoyed them both.

Prince Alexander and Everly had so much chemistry and spark! I really enjoyed the history that they had with each other, and I this royal version of Gossip Girl was really a joy. The reformed bad boy storyline with the human drama of family relations and life were well done and made for interesting characters. I loved watching these two characters grow, and loved how this story fit right into the world that Jennifer Bonds created in the first book.

Overall, this was just what I needed right now - a lighthearted, but not boring or empty romance with a good dose of snark and sass. I can't wait for Pippa's story!

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Five stars!

Reformed bad boy and royalty all rolled into one, sign me up!

Prince Alexander (Xander) and Everly are both lovable and relatable characters with so much chemistry that it is combustible. I loved their snarky to start relationship to so much more, and loved revisiting that characters from the previous book.

Cannot wait to see Pippas story!

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I read this in early june, never got around to reviewing it. But the fact that I still remember each detail of this book that I devoured in is outstanding. This is a second book in the series, I personally didn’t read the first one, but if you didn’t read it either don’t worry about! This author was amazing in a way where she didn’t info dump things from the previous book on to this one which I truly admire because I can read the first one now even after reading the second book in the series. The book was fun and a very easy quick read that got me out of my reading slump! I do wish we saw more romantic development between the two, lots of sexual chemistry because whew where the spice scenes SPICY!!! but I really couldn’t connect with the romantic connection between them… but A+ for the spice! <3 3.5/5

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From the second I finished Royal Disaster, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Prince Alexander's book! And, boy oh boys does Jennifer Bonds give me all of my favorite things. Where Royal Disaster had a Cinderella meets Pretty Woman flare, Royal Trouble gives us the royals version of Gossip Girl. Gah! Love it!

Prince Alexander is no stranger to paparazzi and being the sole focus of the media's insane scrutiny, but now that he's gone from spare to heir, he's struggling to keep himself out of the spotlight. Finally able to enact a program that he cares deeply for, he is struggling to clean up his act and keep the gossip media at bay.

Everly swore when she left Valeria that she wouldn't be coming back but a friend's wedding coinciding with a too good to pass up opportunity leads her back to her home country. In Valeria, she's fairly widely known as the bastard daughter of a Duke but what no one knows is that she's the mastermind behind Royals Gone Wild, the extremely juicy website that spilled all the royal tea. Now a chance meeting with HRH Xander has her tumbling back through her school days, except Xander is maybe not as shallow as she originally thought but secrets, lies, and the scandalous doings of the inner court threaten to expose more than one well-kept secret.

I really enjoyed this book. As I mentioned above, the nod to Gossip Girl with the Royals Gone Wild site was just fab! I love how Everly had already laid down that mantle and was looking to make amends prior to her return to Valeria, it spoke of a level of maturity that was already established rather than doing a huge 180 in a matter of days. Xander as well had some maturity starting to burgeon but we got to see more of his personal growth, which was lovely. If it were both MCs it would have been probably a bit much. Plus, I always love when we get to see active character growth and development on-page.

The relationship development between Everly and Xander was also pretty yummy to see unfold. I wasn't a super quick lurve at first sight, which is greatly appreciated. Everly made him work for it which was awesome. Plus all the sticking points were laid on the table before things got... complicated, and it is just so beautiful. I hate relationships based on deceit. Plus, those two had some pretty decent steam going on.

I am really digging this series and can't wait for the next in the series featuring Liam and Alexander's sister! Yay!!

*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

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Xander is absolutely awesome. I wanted to just hug him, and chase all of his demons away. Everly has her own troubled past (and present), and she is just who he needs. A great story, and a great series!

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I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series. While the second didn't disappoint, I enjoyed the first book more.

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A lovely, fast-paced royal read. I've found my mileage for these types of stories has lessened after the Harry/Meghan stuff and all that has been exposed about the royal family, but this one was delightful!

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Royal Trouble had two engaging and strong leads in Everly and Alexander. You root for these two to get their HEA. If you are looking for a quick, satisfying read-go no further!

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Thank you so much Entangled Pub for sending me an e-arc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

I'm so glad I started my birthday month (which btw I'm so happy that my bday happens to be in Pride Month) with this book. I seriously am so in love with it. It really honestly surprised me how good this was. I'm glad too that this could be read as a standalone (which I kinda love when series do that). I plan to get a copy of the first book as well!

I mean, who doesn't love a romance between a journalist from New York and a bad boy prince?? Like I love my bad boys, but a bad boy who is also a PRINCE?! Omg I'm dead. Don't even get me started on the steamy, smexy scenes cause oh boy were they good.

Xander and Everly (Super cute name btw) were perfection. I really appreciated that whenever a fight happened, they would quickly see each other to apologize. I'm not a fan of when something happens (like assuming someone did something they didn't do) they usually they would take a week or more to realize that they messed up and apolgize.

Anyways, in conclusion, I really loved this book and highly recommend it!

Recommended if you like: Bad Boys, Journalism, Royalty, Steam, Prince X "Commoner".

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This book was crazy good. The background for the characters written as articles in a tabloid were fun. It was nice to see the press getting things wrong. Also karma hitting the one in the wrong.
Wonderful book!

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I really enjoyed it!

This was actually better than I'd expected, I've been having a somewhat underwhelming run with rom-coms lately, so I expected the worst, but this was slightly better than expected! Slightly being the operative word.

I love the whole royal romance trope, I don't know, it's just amazing. And this one did perfect on that, I absolutely loved the execution; the whole troubled prince who seems like a womaniser and whatnot is actually a feminist softie thing is one of my absolute guilty pleasures.

I loved the way conflict was written in this, the guilt was so good I started feeling guilty on behalf of Everly. It was like second hand embarrassment but more horrible-feeling. The angst was amazing, it's literally everything one wants form angst.

This also has to be the first primarily romance book in a long time that I haven't classified as insta-love, because it wasn't. It was that good. This book just won my heart for that alone.

I also really liked that Everly confessed her faults before they had sex, because after would have been like using and like in my no-go zones...and I really like how Alexander handled it. I am still a bit surprised that her background check didn't put up red flags on a journalist front, but then again, she was unemployed, so there was a valid reason (looking at you, Love Match)

The only fault with this book would be that it was somewhat too rushed at times? Like, the ending seemed like it could have been slightly better flushed out, but the rest of it was amazing.

I'm not completely sure why I'm rating this 4.5 stars and not 5, but there's something about this that just didn't merit five whole stars? Not sure what, but there was.

I absolutely flew through this, and I would definitely be up for reading more books by this author, this was an amazing fast read with like complete enjoyment. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the royal romance trope, the bad boy who's secretly a softie trope, the secret identity trope, with slight hurt comfort, amazing banter, and awesome angst.

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