How could you not?! The girl worked three jobs to pay her mother’s medical bills and continued to work them after so she could sustain her apartment, feed herself, and live alone at seventeen!!! I don’t know many that would work like that, or take the jobs she does in order to survive. She’s tough to like at first, but I immediately respected her. I felt for Ella, I really did! From the first words, I knew she was a character that would grow on me. Then Callum Royal shows up, claiming to be her guardian and turning her life upside down. Seventeen and on her own, Ella does what she needs to do to stay independent. Her mother is dead and has been for a while now. I enjoyed it so much that I immediately bought and read Broken Prince, the second book in the series.Įlla Harper is just trying to survive and make a life for herself when she is introduced at the beginning of the book. Now that I’ve finally read it….WOW!!!! I mean, seriously, no words can describe just how much I enjoyed this book. I’m not a fan of YA contemporary, like at ALL! But the book kept popping up in my newsfeed on social media and the more I saw it, the more intrigued I became.

I just….I have no words!!! Paper Princess by Erin Watt was nothing like I expected. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter.

Reading Challenges: 2016 New Release Challenge, COYER 2016 Summer Vacationįrom strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.Įlla Harper is a survivor-a pragmatic optimist. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.

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