Funny, sweet, and sexy but with many poignant moments as well, The Princess Problem was a joy to read. ~ Slick – Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Synopsis:
What girl doesn’t want to wear a tiara? Me. The one who lives in yoga pants and knows she’s not special enough to be a princess.
One minute I’m starting my dream life in NYC, and the next, a man too hot for his own good is banging on my door, telling me that I’m a long lost princess of a country on the other side of the Atlantic.
Not exactly your typical Friday night in the Big Apple.
Suddenly, all of my plans for the future are yanked away. I’m trapped in a life filled with social obligations—and stilettos!—and an uptight royal family I didn’t know existed. They, and the whole rest of the freaking country, have lofty expectations I’m not sure I can meet.
At least the aforementioned sexalicious man, Elias, is my constant shadow, protecting me with his life. The whole situation is overwhelming. So I’ve secretly put him in charge of my happiness, too…and he’s taking my orders very, very seriously.
So seriously, I’m falling for him even harder than the new country I’m coming to…maybe…love.
And that’s a major problem, because he’s crazy about me, too. I may not know all the zillion rules about being royal, but I know one for sure: No way can a princess date her bodyguard…
I loved The Princess Problem by Christi Barth! A woman who has just fulfilled her dream of living in New York City with her sister finds out after her fingerprints for a new job hit a database that she is a princess of a small European country and was kidnapped as an infant. Thrust into royal life, she must figure out how to adapt to her new duties and her new family all while trying to figure out how she feels about being a princess and how in the heck the parents who raised her ended up with her. Funny, sweet, and sexy but with many poignant moments as well, The Princess Problem was a joy to read.
Kelsey is so happy to be in NYC even if the apartment she and her sister share is tiny and their budget is strained, so when a very handsome man knocks on her door and tells her she is the long lost (well kidnapped) princess she thinks she’s being punked for a reality show, turns out it’s the truth and soon she and her sister are whisked away to Moncriano where she will meet her older brother, older sister, her father and other members of the royal family she was born into. Overwhelmed and stressed she leans on her body guard Elias who also happens to be her new brother’s best friend.
I know that will probably be people who try and tear this book apart for one reason or another because it doesn’t meet royal protocol or some such nonsense, but since I’m not a huge royal watcher and don’t really care about how things are done in royal families, I was able to sit back, read, and truly fall in love with these characters and their story. While a romance between Princess Kelsey (yes she insisted on keeping the name she grew up with instead of the one she was born with) and Elias was pretty front and center in this book Kelsey was also getting to know her new family and dealing with how awkward she felt around her brother even though he was happy for her return, her new sister who seemed less than thrilled she was found, forging a relationship with her father the king, steering clear of her grandmother who was a strong personality and not very nice, and a great aunt who was quite lovely.
While Elias tired to steer clear knowing that a relationship with Kelsey wasn’t possible with him being a commoner, the more time they spent in each other’s company the harder it was to deny the feelings they were both having. I enjoyed watching their feelings grow, how conflicted they were, and how they decided to deal with their attraction. There were ups and downs in their relationship and I felt it was very realistic at how things played out.
The Princess Problem was a fantastic start to this series and I’m already looking forward to reading the next book.
