"I might be Cinderella today, but I dread who they'll think I am tomorrow. I guess it depends on what I do next."
American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour and royalty, fame and fortune. Yet it's Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain's future king. 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.
Dating Nick immerses Bex in ritzy society, dazzling ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace with him and his charming, troublesome brother, Freddie. 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. 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.
Which is how she gets into trouble.
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 Bad:
This book was loooonnngg. It felt like it should have been two books. There's a perfect breaking point and everything. I also thought it would be more humorous, like the Fug Girls' YA book, but it's not really a humorous story.
The Good:
Prince Charming of course! Honestly, I could take or leave Bex, I mean she's great - a fairly strong, capable woman, but, I really loved Nick and Freddie. Nick is the honorable good guy, and then there's the lovable rogue, Freddie, our Princes Charming. *sigh*
We LOVE the Fug Girls! Their blog keeps us endlessly entertained and can perk up the worst days. If you haven't read their books yet, you really need to!
The Royal We is about real relationships in a fairytale setting. You cannot have a more fairy tale scenario than the ordinary girl becoming a Princess, but Bex, Nick, Freddie and Lacey are dealing with real relationship issues. Outside influences and expectations, compromise, loss of identity, lies, jealousy, bitterness, loss, really the whole host of human relationships... The contrast is actually fascinating - real relationship problems in a fairy tale setting, because more often than not, romance novels are fairytale relationships in a more real world setting. It's the relationships that kept me engrossed in this book.
TRW is good read and if you are mad about Will and Kate, or just love a Cinderella story, this book is for you.
~Shel
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