READING: Broken Prince (Paper Princess #2) by Erin Watt

Publication date: July 26 2016
Published by: TimeOut LLC
Genre:New Adult, Romance, Contemporary, High School
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Reed Royal has it all—looks, status, money. The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life.
What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father’s new ward suffer turned into something else entirely—keep Ella close. Keep Ella safe. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed’s arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed’s entire world begins to fall apart around him.

Ella doesn’t want him anymore. She says they’ll only destroy each other.
She might be right. 

Secrets. Betrayal. Enemies. It’s like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he’s going to win back his princess, he’ll need to prove himself Royally worthy.


2nd read (Apr 1 2019)
Much better than the dreadful Paper Princess. There were still some cringe worthy and eye rolling moments (I'd be surprised if there weren't) but I think Reed's POV gave a whole different meaning to his actions and overall behaviour. He manages to convince me that he is completely aware he screwed up and that he has been a major jerk. He appears remorseful and self destructive - my two favourite qualities in a guy 😀 Loved his fight with Delacorte at school-real badass. 

When Ella comes back, I expected him to be a creep and follow her around everywhere demanding they get back together, and her to fall for it after a couple of chapters. To my genuine surprise, that didn't happen. Instead, he was relatively calm about the fact that Ella wouldn't have him back (like I said, completely aware he screwed up) because he knew that they belonged together and at some point she would forgive him. Well, I don't know about the belonging together crap, but Ella didn't give up as easily as I thought. She had a moment of weakness here and there but come on! She lived with the guy, it was only natural and expected. They officially reconciled and got together around 70% in, which for YA-NA world, it's aaaaaaages! So, congrats for not rushing it. It would have made the epic cliff-hanger of PP kinda pointless, otherwise.

Speaking of cliffhangers-BP has an even bigger jaw-dropper than PP 😲 !

Also, I think the twins have the most interesting relationship out of all the characters in the book. Watt should make a book (or a series) just about them.