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A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
Sep. 20th, 2019 01:39 pmA Prince on Paper
3/5. Another modern sort of royal romance. Woman with a complicated familial past from a made up African nation enters into fake engagement with sort of prince of a made up European nation.
I'm discovering that I like Cole's books for the people – here they are complicated and wounded in ways that make sense and that both fit together and create friction between them. But I am very little interested in anything else like, say, the plot. I don't think she is particularly successful at having one inform the other, as the plot seems to just sort of happen, obscuring all the interesting interpersonal bits.
3/5. Another modern sort of royal romance. Woman with a complicated familial past from a made up African nation enters into fake engagement with sort of prince of a made up European nation.
I'm discovering that I like Cole's books for the people – here they are complicated and wounded in ways that make sense and that both fit together and create friction between them. But I am very little interested in anything else like, say, the plot. I don't think she is particularly successful at having one inform the other, as the plot seems to just sort of happen, obscuring all the interesting interpersonal bits.