The Royal We could have easily been 100 pages (at least) shorter.

What I got was…not what I was expecting.Ībout halfway is when things sunk, but I was far enough in that I decided to go ahead and finish it out. Mostly because I was leaning towards that being that point of this romance. I honestly thought this would have been dragged out longer over the course of the book. It was cute! Meeting at college, getting to know a new country and being truly on Rebecca’s own (without her twin). We had a pretty good start then things just went downhill. Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, Bex is faced with whether everything she’s sacrificed for love-her career, her home, her family, maybe even herself-will have been for nothing. The pressures are almost too much to bear, as Bex struggles to reconcile the man she loves with the monarch he’s fated to become. But the relationship also comes with unimaginable baggage: hysterical tabloids, Nick’s sparkling and far more suitable ex-girlfriends, and a royal family whose private life is much thornier and more tragic than anyone on the outside knows. And when Bex can’t resist falling for Nick, the person behind the prince, it propels her into a world she did not expect to inhabit, under a spotlight she is not prepared to face.ĭating Nick immerses Bex in ritzy society, dazzling ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace with him and his charming, troublesome brother, Freddie. Yet it’s Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain’s future king. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour and royalty, fame and fortune.

I guess it depends on what I do next.”Īmerican Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. “I might be Cinderella today, but I dread who they’ll think I am tomorrow.

The royal we by heather cocks