A royal teen romance for the sapphic set! Enjoyed the narrator and pacing, though I fear I may finally be getting too old for teen shenanigans. (Woe!) More appropriate for our library's Teen collection due to language, drugs, drinking, and orgasms - would fanfic rate at an M.

Recommend to anyone who liked American Royals.

This book had a lot of heavier themes for a YA book including overdose of a classmate and coming to terms with your queerness in a religious community, but I really enjoyed the story. Dani and Rose have such an immediate and inevitable connection and I loved getting to see them come together despite all the challenges that leads for them.

I found Molly to be a really interesting character who added a lot to the story in the 3rd piece of the friendship triangle with Rose and Dani. It was heartbreaking to see how much grief her and Rose still held onto from their friends death, and seeing how it pushed their friendship apart to get rebuilt over the course of the book.

This was super charming on audio and I really enjoyed the duet narration as well as the accent Rose's character had. My one compliant is that I felt like the story moves very slowly. The "third act break-up" occurred at 50% through the plot and gets resolved only for their to be another conflict towards the 80% mark.

Thank you Wednesday Books for an ARC and Macmillian audio for an ALC of Nobody in Particular!

3.5 stars rounded up

An adorable princess and the pauper vibes story with queer characters that showcases the ups and downs of publicity, with an amazing cast of characters and an interesting story. The narrator of the audiobook was great!

Really like Sophie Gonzales' books, and I've been eagerly anticipating this one (and that cover! omg, love!) I thought this one was fun, and it was nice to read a sapphic YA from Sophie this time around, particularly in audiobook format

I received an ARC/ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was my first time reading anything, by this author and their writing was different… I had to stop and start reading quite a few times as I found it was hard to focus on the story for some reason. Though just after the halfway mark it got better. The concept, story and characters were really cute. Danni and Rose are unbelievably adorable. I thought the story was sweet, a bit overdramatic, romantic, gay 💅🏻and even though I don’t often read YA, it was very enjoyable!

I’d like to try reading more by this author for sure and highly recommend it to anyone interested in royalty/commoner romances, gay romance, and a sweet story about two high schoolers who just want to hold on to a connection and love they never, ever, saw coming.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this ALC.

Gail Shalan and Imani Jade Powers were wonderful performers.

I really liked Danni and Rose. They were relatable and sweet together.

Thank you SMP, WednesdayBooks, and MacMillan audio! Nobody in Particular from Sophie Gonzales is a welcome exploration of the complexities of some adolescent lives, the role of fame and status and identity and the pressure to be who others want you to be, not who you are (and at what cost to happiness and genuine connection?). I value the plot,Gonzales' passion for the story and her characters' lives, and the care taken to share this story. It wasn't quite for me (I think it's me, YA right now is not my escape) but I am also not the target audience, ... I think this could be a big win for many YA readers seeking a queer inclusive, sapphic themes romance and story.

Read If You Like:
🎹 YA Romance
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Romance
👑 Royalty × Commoner Romance
😘 Forbidden Romance
🏰 Boarding School Drama
💔Characters with past trauma seeking redemption
🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual Rep

Princess Rosemary of Henland is on a redemption arc — working to restore her shattered reputation after a scandal where a friend of hers died of an overdose at a party last year.

Enter Danni Blythe, a shy pianist from Colorado who arrives at Bramppath College on scholarship surrounded now by wealthy students, including one royal.

Instantly, their worlds collide and mutual attraction blooms. Rose has status and scrutiny, that comes with all she does, and the need to follow the direction of her parents, her King and hope she can still ascend the throne after her scandal the year prior and now the scandal tied to her speculated sexuality and whispered rumors of a relationship with Danni.

Danni has immense pressure to fit in and perform when she arrives at her new school. She has her own past trauma from being ostracized and bullied in her prior school for her piano playing and, basically everything else. Add to it that Dani is bisexual and fearful of coming out- she has had even more reason to curl into herself.

As their friendship deepens into something more, whispers and rumors threaten to expose their relationship before it can really begin— but, then Rose engages in an ageeement for her sexuality to be covered up with a fake dating situation with one of her male classmates who is close to her family.

Will Rose risk everything has worked to rebuild, and what is the risk to her crown if she lives as her true self.

I really loved how Danni and Rose complimented each other and brought out the best in each other. I also really enjoyed the setting and how realistic it felt with the immaturity and backstabbing that happens in high school, let alone with privileged students at a boarding school.

This story definitely gave guilty pleasure vibes with the romance, secrets, gossip, and addition of social media commentary mixed in!

Thanks to Macmillan for my gifted ALC and to Wednesday books for my physical ARC.

I really enjoyed this book. I love books where you are excited to read them. I loved getting to know the characters. I wanted to pick up the book and listen to the incredible narrators. it's told in two pov's: Rose the princess of Henland (a fictional country in Europe) and Dani a scholarship kid in a fancy elite boarding school. luckily she's talented but she has stage fright. she's incredibly empathetic and understands Rose better than anybody. I loved their friendship and turned into a crush into romance. It felt like a mashup of Gossip Girl meets Princess Diaries and sprinkle in some Lesbian romance. a perfect read for pride month.

4.5 Stars

Danni is an American living overseas in Europe. She receives a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school where the wealthy, known, and royalty send their children. She is nervous to start here after bad experiences at her last school. It isn't long before Danni is making friends and developing feelings for someone. Though no one ever said falling for a princess would be easy.



"I'm running out of patience for people who won't simply say what they mean."

"I've never understood people's obsession with dwelling within their negative emotions as though it's somehow a sign of strength to wallow in sadness and hurt for weeks or months. Who does that help? Certainly not the person hurting."

"If you never take the first step towards where you want to be, you'll stay right where you are. - You can't teleport yourself to your destination."


"Being with me isn't easy."
"I don't think it will be- but being without you is impossible."

"You've redefined what happiness is. Each night I climb into bed excited because when I wake, I get to live another day knowing you."

Bisexual FMC
Lesbian FMC
Boarding School
Falling for a Princess
Secret Relationship
Coming Out
Modern Young Adult


Nobody In Particular is a little bit slow at first, but it's worth it and that helps you get to know the characters and setting better.
This is the first book that I have read by Sophie Gonzalez, but I will definitely be reading more. I loved her writing style, it made the story feel elegant and come to life. I am so glad that the author was finally able to publish this story!!

I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the narrators and how they had a good contrast between characters and accents in the Dual POV. Danni's narrator was my favorite she spoke clearly and had well defined voices and portrayed Danni splendidly. Rose's narrator was also great, but I had to listen to her chapters at a slower speed, but I absolutely adored her accent and how she voiced Rose.


Thanks so much to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and Macmillan Audio for this ALC!

Spice Level: 1/5 Closed Door

Princess Rosemary and Danni attend Brammpeth College, and Danni is a new student. Danni ends up befriending Rose’s former best friend, Molly. Molly is the catalyst that ends up bringing Rose and Danni into each other’s lives. Rose can’t help but become more intrigued by Danni the more she becomes friends with Molly and others in their circle.

The more Rose gets to know Danni, the more she realizes she doesn’t want her to not be a part of her life. However, being a Princess, that isn’t the image that she is allowed to portray. Will Princess Rose find her happily ever after?

I listened to this book on Audible. I saw a lot of reviews for this book on Insta and I knew this was something I needed to read. Not having much time to read a physical book, I got the audio version. I’m glad I listened to this book because the hype was worth it. This was a book I didn’t want to stop listening to. To me, Rose and Danni had undeniable chemistry. The pining and the wanting were there. The lead-up to their first kiss is just perfection.

The narrators for this book were perfect. Their tone and cadence while reading this book kept me completely into the book. If you’re looking for a young adult book with forbidden love as a plot, you will love this book.

Overall, I liked this book. It did feel a bit young for me…seniors in high school. However, the story was good and I liked the narrator. Would recommend for older teens and young adults, which was probably noted and I just missed it.

Although it's YA it almost doesn't read YA with some of the themes? Maybe it was the narration (the narration for the princess sounded way older than high school). They dealt with issues that felt more like college age/20s but that could have just been me projecting.

I thought the narrator did a great job differentiating the voices of the characters - she had two very distinct sounds. And somehow managed to make it feel duet?

I've seen this book compared to the princess diaries and RWRB and I can see it. There are definitely similarities between those stories so if you're looking for a sapphic YA version - you'll probably enjoy this book. It's YA so be prepared for no spice.

I actually really liked that the conflict started earlier than it does in most romance books (like around the midpoint rather than only third act). It made the romance and the story more realistic to me.

4.5
This was so cute! I really enjoyed this ya sapphic romance. The topics it discussed were a bit out there because one of the main characters is a princess, still felt real and relevant and handled with care. How the characters whether it's dealing with grief, substance abuse, bullying, or coming to terms with their sexuality, were all done beautifully. The only thing I would add is maybe a little bit more fleshed-out side characters who were involved in the core part of the ending of the story. The audiobook was also absolutely fantastic narrator did such a good job. Thank you, Netgalley and the publisher, for a chance to read this book for an honest review.

Sophie Gonzales always delivered the cutest sapphic romances. I always think a royal romance is fun, and I loved seeing the author's take on it. It isn't my favorite of her work, but it was still a solid read. The characters did read a bit young for me, but it was balanced well with some deeper topics. Definitely one to check out this summer!

The dual narration was done well -- Rose and Danni had clear separate voices, and I appreciated the accents!

This was my first book from Sophie and I was really intrigued by it when I seen mutuals post about it on social media. I think in the end it kind of fell flat for me but I loved the conversations the MCs and their friends had around mental health. And there was some drama (Rose crash out had my jaw on the floor) and I was eating it up. Overall I'm giving this 3.5 stars.

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thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me an ALC in exchange for my honest review. all thoughts are my own.

The voice acting in this is perfectly teenage. The inflections and cadence of speech truly embodies the air of teen girls. It’s fun, it’s silly, it’s sweet. The story itself is everything you’re expecting from a young adult sapphic trope romance. It’s cozy and charming! I struggled a bit to get through it only because I don’t typically read YA. I do, however, love a royalty romance. If this had come out when I was 17, I would have eaten it up.

Nobody in Particular is a dual POV romance about Rose, a princess trying to rehab her image after a tragic event, and Danni, a student who just moved to the boarding school and is on scholarship for her piano studies. Rose and her friends, especially Molly, are reeling from the death of their friend, Oscar. It became a scandal when it was discovered Rose was also at that party and Molly can't help but blame Rose for being more focused on her image than the loss. Danni joins the friend group when things have fractured and everyone is trying to heal. As she tries to mend the space between Rose and Molly she finds herself being more intrigued by Rose and realizing that Rose is grieving in her own way, a way that Molly can't see or understand. I really appreciated this aspect -- that everyone deals with grief in their own way and how we learn to live with ourselves after we make mistakes, that that process is different for everyone. I appreciated seeing these characters "going through it." These aspects felt very realistic and grounded the story. There were of course lots of aspects of Rose's life as a princess and royalty and the public and image and perception and subterfuge that will appeal to readers who enjoy stories with royalty--but, in my opinion, not so much to turn anyone off. Another one of my favorite aspects was that Danni struggles with being perceived. She was bullied at her last school and since then has struggled to be seen by anyone, especially performing despite studying to be a concert pianist. Rose, who has been intensely perceived all her life, helps Danni with this aspect and I really loved seeing how Danni navigated being outside her comfort zone. Danni said several inspiring things about how if you never take the first step you'll always stay in the same place and that you have to start on your journey to get where you want to be. I appreciated that there was romance, but also mystery and suspense and that we got to see each of the characters as real people. If you love royalty, sapphic romance, YA, or Princess Diaries, you might love this one! Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. My one critique of the audiobook is that Rose's narrator was much quieter and harder to hear than Danni's. Otherwise, it was excellent!

This audiobook was such a cute listen! The narrators were lovely and really captured the voices of the main characters. Danni was an immediately a favorite character. Rose, however, took a moment to like, she was just extremely closed off. This story is such a nice and easy read FULL of yearning! I quickly became obsessed with how much the main characters felt about each other. Also, the cover is to die for!

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the ARC of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review!

This is a young adult romance that intertwines royal intrigue with the complexities of queer identity similar to Her Royal Highness or Red, White, and Royal Blue.

We follow Princess Rosemary of Henland and Danni, new to this country on a scholarship, through their lives at Bramppath College, an elite all-girls boarding school. The novel follows as they navigate the challenges of a forbidden relationship amidst societal expectations and personal growth.

The author excels in crafting multidimensional characters. Rosemary’s struggle to rebuild her reputation after a public scandal and Danni’s journey of self-discovery are portrayed with depth and sensitivity. Seeing the way these characters open up to and grow with each other is enthralling.

In addition to this, the themes addressed by the book is a strength. The novel delves into themes of identity, privilege, and the sacrifices made for love. The challenges faced by Rose and Danni at their core resonate with real lived experiences making it easy to relate to despite being fictional.

While the author did a good job developing the story and characters, I do think the setting was a bit underwhelming. I was imagining school culture and drama like Gossip Girl, so to get so little about what the school was actually like or a more in depth view of their everyday lives, I was a bit disappointed. In addition to that, we know our main character is royal and the familial pressure that brings, but it would have been nice to have a more in-depth exploration of certain royal aspects, such as the societal implications of Rose’s status and the broader political landscape of Henland.

Overall, this was an enjoyable read in the young adult genre, offering a balance of romance with meaningful commentary on identity and societal pressures. If you enjoyed similar royal romances and are looking for your next one, I would definitely recommend reading!