Publication date: August 18 2017
Published by: Erin Watt
Genre: Young Adult, College, Contemporary, Romance
Rating:
Gideon and Savannah's tortured love story.
(Seriously. That is the summary on Goodreads ↑)
This was probably the most YA book out of all the three previous Royals books, and it took place at a college (!)
I didn't really connect with Gideon and Savannah. We learn next to nothing about them from the Royal series and to be honest I thought Gideon was very bland. Super hot rich boy cheating on his insecure high school girlfriend with an older woman-a trope that has been done to death, and one that is neither cute or romantic.
The flashbacks did not convince me that Gideon was head over heels with Savannah, quite the opposite actually. He refused to tell her what was going on in his life and I don't buy that he wanted to protect her. He just didn't want his family's dirty laundry out in the open because he was embarrassed. Nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that you are supposed to trust the person you claim to love so much and Gideon apparently did not. Also, the way that his cheating was purposefully left out of the flashbacks was so incredibly cheap, imo. We see Dinah inappropriately touching him all the time and he may have found it weird but he never did anything to stop it. I wonder how he actually ended up sleeping with her (more than once...) if he found her advances that creepy. Blackmailing him with Sav's photos to get him in bed? Really? Shittiest excuse ever.
In the end, Sav forgave him like we all knew she would with no much preamble and just quick enough to make their whole feud seem silly. She should have worked out her own issues first e.g. insecurity, self-image among others, which hooking up with the hottest guy in school only made worse, and then maybe try to be in a relationship. I mean, she hooked up with Easton just to spite Gid, and Gid thought it was "cute".
'Nough said.
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