I wasn’t sure whether this book would be to my taste and I was right. Elora, forced into marriage by her cold, unfeeling parents and then there’s the groom, forced into a marriage that he didn’t want. Sadly the story was rather flat and just didn’t engage my interest

A very cute fake romance story. Rohan and Elora are prince and princess from neighbouring kingdoms, and whilst this is far fetched, the author makes the story personal by including the day to day worries, the deep felt wishes and a bit about the life that they lead. The expectations put on a male heir is key and the pressure that cold parents put on Elora is sad and makes me sympathetic to her. It is hard to project in to the book, but a kind and caring romance.

I received an advanced reader, copy in exchange for an honest review, by the publishers.

This is the first book. I’ve read by this author and sadly I won’t be reading another one as I found it too predictable, unconvincing and rather boring.

I really am fed up with stories about heroines or heroes whose parents are really two dimensional cardboard, cut out villains. And the hero, or the heroine spends most of the book, trying to earn their love.- seriously it’s 2024 not 1924. These royal tails of duty and convention, vault relationship to modern life today.

From the blurb - thishad all the makings of great story. I thought the premise was good.
The Indian island monarchies seemed a bit of a stretch, but after all, this is Mill and Boon land where credibility has to be suspended..

I like the fact that Rohan challenge , why must it always be a male air who inherits the throne.

One of the things I really dislike about this book was the way Rohan‘s first wife Caro was given such a huge part to play in the plot, and why she wasn’t given a suitable comeuppance at some point in the story. She left after having tried to make trouble for Rohan, but his reputation was still in Tutters and everybody believed that she was the innocent victim. When of course we knew from the very beginning she wasn’t. This was signalled about us subtly as a foghorn from the minute we heard he had a disastrous marriage. In the same way that the heroines possible fertility problems were given a red flag from the very beginning .

I didn’t want to see or meet or listen to the first wife so I couldn’t understand why she was given such a big part, or why she wasn’t unmasked as a lying, unfaithful adulteress.