Royally Lost Review

Ok guise, it's time for me to review another book. It's been a while due to personal stuff, but I'll try to make up this month. I recently borrowed this book in my local library. It was on my to read list for a while but I decided to give it a go since it was practically in front of me.

Yay! I'm so excited to read this!

                                    The book I borrowed is Royally Lost by Angie Stanton.

Behold the cover!

     The book is about an American girl named Becca who is dragged on a family trip to Europe. Becca would rather spend her college-bound summer at home than at boring tours of European structures. Her father is emotionally distant, her stepmother is overeager and all her brother cares about is hooking up with European hotties. Becca is miserable until she meets Nikolai, a mysterious but caring guy. Enter Nikolai, heir to the throne and crown prince of a country. He is everything a girl wants but does not have freedom to be himself. When Becca and Nikolai meet, it's love at first sight.Unfortunately for both of them, the adventure ends as Becca's vacation ends soon. Will Becca and Nikolai say goodbye as his destiny catches up to him or will they change history together?

     I'm a complete sucker for any books about an average girl falling in love with a prince-like figure. Also, since it was short, I knew that this would be an easy read. I thought this would be a cute easy read in regards to the situations regarding the plot. But boy was I wrong.

Such a bitter disappointment.

    Okay.... this book is utter rubbish. Like seriously. Becca cannot do anything but whine and complain about how boring Europe is. She could not find at least one ounce of Europe to like but instead misses McDonalds and American food. She literally cannot stop whining about that instead of sucking it up. She literally whines about how her life sucks constantly and seems very uncultured for a typical American. I question how smart she is because she ends up in Northwestern University. Then suddenly at the end, she ends up being cultured by being in Costa Rica.

    Enter Nikolai. The crown prince of Mondovia. After his parents decision  to send him to military school, he decides to run away from responsibility. (Actually, I would honestly run away this instead of staying.) It seem like his parents seem like to only care about their country by holding lavish state dinners instead of caring about the welfare of the country. (Though in reality, most countries think of abolishing monarchies due to them being symbolic leaders.)

    Regarding Nikolai himself, his relationship with Becca is unrealistic. Literally, he crushes on her at first sight and somehow follows her to every city she passes in Europe. How about creepy stalker alert! It's really creepy! In reality if this ever happened, local authorities or Interpol should have been called.

Creepy much? Nah, it's love at first sight.

      Overall, the book was all cliche and lacked in character development. Let's see, we have a stepmother/mother like figure who wants to keep everything. The father who seems cold and only having an extremely perfect life, a girl with the typical perfect personality and a brother who is a play boy. Also, a prince who wants to get out of his life and a sister who wants to rebel like her brother. I love that this book is very original. Not. I've watched better films that portray this situation a lot better than what this book did. That is why I rated this book two stars on Goodreads. I had difficulty keeping up with the book due to character development but also the situations that happened in the book were completely generic based on previous forms of media I've seen.

     I hope you guise enjoyed the review. Ttfn,

Dee