Heather Cocks

Rebecca - Bex for short - is an American college student who decides to do a year abroad at Oxford. She moves into residence, and almost immediately meets Nick, the young Prince of Wales, second in line to the British throne. It's a love match, and one of lust, and friendship, and safety. It is also highly unsuitable, Bex being American as apple pie and knowing little to nothing of the British Royal Family.

To make it to the finish line - a Westminster Abbey wedding and a life with the man she loves - Bex has to endure paparazzi, loneliness, the loss of her job and a normal life in London, and hardest of all, a cold-hearted family who want the Prince to marry someone suitable, someone titled, someone not Rebecca.

I've been interested in the Royal family since I was a child, so this book was a good choice for me. I'm always depressed in February, and so fast-paced and detailed romantic fiction was an ideal way to pull myself out of the pits of despair for some happy hours in a book. Overall, The Royal We was a pleasure.… (más)

Spoiled was a snarky, amusing novel at first, but the second time, my opinion changed.

This novel reminds me The Clique series. Molly, similar to Claire Lyons, moves to a new place where she gets tormented by the fabulous rich girl Brooke. In this case, Molly and Brooke turn out to be half-sisters.

Molly is a bland character. She has no interesting aspects of her personality. Claire does. Claire likes photography, candies, wearing Keds and Gap clothing and overall sensitive girl who desires to be fabulous as Massie. What's fascinating about Molly other than she's the daughter of a movie actor? Nothing. The novel hinted she likes running, but she never tried out for track. Her dull personality was hard to root for no matter how hard the authors tried.

Brooke in the other hand, is sassy, self-conceited, glamorous girl with a dark secret. She has an absent mother, whom she writes every day, but never sends. She wants to become like her father. When Molly arrives, Brooke becomes extremely competitive towards her. All she wants is to make her father proud, especially since she's the director of the school production My Fair Lady.

Other than the sharp-tongued quotes and Argula, Brooke's best friend who is Tyra Bank's doppelganger, Spoiled is another book about Hollywood with no surprising elements.

Read The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. The quotes and characters are more memorable and snarkier.… (más)