'Falling Hard for the Royal Guard' is about Maggie, who lives in the Tower of London. I didn't know much about the Tower of London, but I feel like I learned a lot about it from this book. I enjoyed the parts of the book about the history and background of the people who live and work there. Maggie has a boring job as a ticket taker, and she has bad luck with love. Her last boyfriend cheated on her, and she spent 7 years on him!

Maggie hopes to find love, and she literally runs into Freddie. Freddie is a Royal Guard, and he seems very serious about his job. Freddie and Maggie spend more time together, and he takes her to places in the Tower that she hasn't seen before. Their interactions are fun, but I wanted more from them.

I liked some parts of the book, but I felt like most of it was boring and drawn out. I could have used more interaction with Freddie and Maggie, more from the other Royal Guards, and more from Maggie and her dad. I feel like the backstory was good, but it wasn't enough romance. I did like how everything wrapped up in the end though.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins for an ARC of this book.

Overall I liked how the main plot was a romance story taken place on the grounds of the Tower of London, but this book was a slow burn for me. This book sounded interesting and funny from the summary, but I really didn’t think it was that funny. Also, I wish that the main characters had more action and romance between them.

I gave this book 2.5/5 stars.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper 360 for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Slow burn for sure! It's a cute romcom but I feel like it was missing so much more, some more character development for Freddie and just overall. BUT I still enjoyed it for what it was, the details of where she lived, I loved and it's interesting reading about love life for a royal guard when in the media or just life in general we know nothing about them.

Maggie doesn’t have a fairy tale life. She recently broke up with her cheating boyfriend and her coworkers are hideous to her. But she strikes up a friendship with Freddie (and his crew) and the story takes off from there.

This one was a slow start for me, I think mostly because her coworkers were horrible. But I really enjoyed all the Tower of London facts and the last half picked up the pace and was enjoyable.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. Watch for Falling Hard for the Royal Guard to come out May 2, 2023.

Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy of this book. Below is my honest review.

Maggie is our MC and she lives and works in the Tower of London. Maggie’s obnoxious ex won’t leave her alone. He gaslights her, manhandles her, blows up her phone, and won’t stay away.

When running a terrible errand for her awful boss (haunted cellar, anyone), she runs into a pompous man she nicknames Lord Lamppost…only to find out he is a guardsman.

Thankfully, Lord Lamppost, aka Freddie, seems to be around whenever said ex come by in person. Freddie and Maggie start getting to know each other. She befriends some other guardsmen who challenge her to five dates with five different people. Why doesn’t she date Freddie, you ask? She promised herself she wouldn’t be like her mother who fell for a guard. She couldn’t stay up worrying about him or where he was, spending holidays alone.

Let’s just say the dates … aren’t what Maggie hoped. Will she find her true love? Or will she realize he was right there all along?

Overall, the book was cute. I loved the setting and Freddie’s guard buddies were likable and a lot of fun. And the ravens! Bonus points for teaching me a little lesser known history.

Maggie thinking it’s all over at 26 was … frustrating. So were her coworkers. We got a reason her boss didn’t like her, but the others? And no one else seemed to care people were abusing the security footage?

I pretty much predicted the ending, but that didn’t ruin the experience. If you want a lighthearted book, minus the bullying from her ex and coworkers, then give it a whirl.

Love is in the heir in this royally good rom com debut releasing in Spring 2023 – perfect for anyone who likes relatable heroines (with great hair), hot and aloof book boyfriends (with great hats), near misses, almost kisses and a corgi or two.

Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret ‘Maggie’ Moore.

From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her own fairy-tale ending.

Yet this is twenty-first century London, so instead of knights on white horses, she has catfish on Tinder. And with her last relationship ending in spectacular fashion, she swears off men for good.

And then a chance encounter with Royal Guard Freddie forces Maggie to admit that she isn’t ready to give up on love just yet… But how do you catch the attention of someone who is trained to ignore all distractions?

Can she snare that true love’s first kiss… or is she royally screwed?

A right royal rom com, perfect for fans of Red, White and Royal Blue and The Royal We.