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Plucky Patricia Parker, shocked to be mistaken for a princess, accepts a handsome, charismatic prince’s offer to stand in for his missing cousin. Summoning all her poise, she manages to fool the public, but cannot fool her heart into ignoring Crown Prince Lawrence, who tempts her. It takes all her wits and endurance to escape from a kidnapper to get help to rescue the princess, but then she faces opposition from the king, the queen, and the titled lady Lawrence is supposed to marry. This is an expanded version with an extra chapter featuring her sister, Becky's, adventure.

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English
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March 27, 2017
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17 - 18 years
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4.0 out of 5 starsPrescription for a delightful summerread--Pretend Princess
July 2, 2017
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Pretend Princess is the optimal prescriptionfor its reader's malady of the trauma and derisive discourse of the summer of2019. Escape for a brief reprieve into a fairytale world of good/bad,right/wrong, rich/poor and where the "good guys" win in Cordillera.Through a stroke of luck and being in the right place at the right time, themain character, Patricia Parker (Tricia), is whisked to the tiny 21st centuryfairytale country of Cordillera, replete with Kings, Queens, castles and a 19thsovereignty. Because of Tricia's look-alike attributes of the monarchy'smissing princess, she accepts the temporary assignment of assuming the missingprincess's daily responsibilities until the real princess is found and restoredto her rightful role. This quick read immerses the reader into a young doctoralstudent's transition from the democracy of her USA into the monocracy of Cordilleraas she acts her quick-study role as a pretend princess, endures themisadventures of being kidnapped, and engages in the suspense of solving themystery of the missing monarch. Woven throughout this tapestry of intrigue isher developing friendship and erotic romance with her own Prince Charmimg, thecousin of the missing princess Alyssa--Crown Prince Lawrence. Pretend Princessis a delightful summer read.

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I wanted to write a modern version of the Prince and the Pauper.

ASIN : B06WVKT8BT
Publisher : Williamson Press; 2nd edition (March 27, 2017)
Publication date : March 27, 2017
Language : English
File size : 868 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
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Print length : 324 pages
Lending : Enabled

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Terry Mills

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Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2018

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If you like the love story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, you will love this action packed story of love changing the rules in a royal family. Patricia Parker, an American grad student, is asked by a handsome, charismatic prince to stand in for his run-away cousin. Patricia is almost an exact double, except for her Texas accent.

The ruse goes well until a social climbing bad guy confronts and discovers she isn't the one he seeks. The princess is found on the romantic and beautiful Isle of Capri. She is returned home to Cordillera. The selfish trouble maker kidnaps both the princess and Patricia. Can the prince save both women, and will he defy centuries of tradition to marry the woman he loves?

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C.Kitchens

Prescription for a delightful summer read--Pretend Princess

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2017

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Pretend Princess is the optimal prescription for its reader's malady of the trauma and derisive discourse of the summer of 2017. Escape for a brief reprieve into a fairytale world of good/bad, right/wrong, rich/poor and where the "good guys" win in Cordillera. Through a stroke of luck and being in the right place at the right time, the main character, Patricia Parker (Tricia), is whisked to the tiny 21st century fairytale country of Cordillera, replete with Kings, Queens, castles and a 19th sovereignty. Because of Tricia's look-alike attributes of the monarchy's missing princess, she accepts the temporary assignment of assuming the missing princess's daily responsibilities until the real princess is found and restored to her rightful role. This quick read immerses the reader into a young doctoral student's transition from the democracy of her USA into the monocracy of Cordillera as she acts her quick-study role as a pretend princess, endures the misadventures of being kidnapped, and engages in the suspense of solving the mystery of the missing monarch. Woven throughout this tapestry of intrigue is her developing friendship and erotic romance with her own Prince Charmimg, the cousin of the missing princess Alyssa--Crown Prince Lawrence. Pretend Princess is a delightful summer read.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020

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Written as if by a beginner with everything either overexplained or suddenly dropped. Guards everywhere except conveniently absent during multiple kidnappings.

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Poorly researched with an utterly nonsensical plot and the most dislikable hero I've read since Christian Grey

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2017

I'm still in a state of incredulous WTFery about this book. There are so many completely bonkers plot points in it that I spent most of my reading time shaking my head.

Let's start off with the location. Cordillera is apparently a small country 'sandwiched between France and Spain'. OK. Not the worst location for a fictional small country with a fictional monarchy. I can buy that.

I can't buy that any country in modern-day Western Europe has a law 'forbidding women to wear trousers in public' and another 'forbidding married women with able-bodied husbands to work outside the home'.

I'm thinking that the author hasn't heard of the EU. For a bit I wondered if I'd misinterpreted something and whether the book was actually set in the 1950's or something, but no. Cellphones are a thing. This is supposed to be contemporary. Despite someone apparently thinking that the only way to get from England to the South of France is a ferry or train via the Channel Tunnel. Apparently the author hasn't heard of aeroplanes either.

Western Europe... ANYWHERE in Europe... is definitely not the right location if you want archaic, outdated, misogynistic laws to apply. The Middle East or North Africa, maybe. Maybe this is supposed to be a Sheikh romance and the author is just geographically confused.

The heroine's parents are Christian missionaries, away in South Africa at the time of the story (where she worries about them getting caught up in a tribal uprising, which is yet another impossibly geographically ignorant plot point) and therefore her reaction to Prince Lawrence wanting to have an affair with her is quite understandable. I'd have slapped the offensive idiot’s face as well.

Look... there is a trope in romances that has been around since Jane Austen's time at least. Pride and Prejudice is THE classic example. The hero of the novel acts like a misogynistic idiot and eventually, by the power of falling in love with an Opinionated Strong Female, finds redemption and does the biggest grovel ever. That's the payoff for having to put up with the hero being an idiot for most of the book.

By the time I got halfway through this book, I was already thinking that the grovel had better be particularly epic.

But here's the thing. THERE IS NO GROVEL. Lawrence never changes his opinions. The closest he ever gets is being willing to POSSIBLY give up his future crown for lurve - in order to marry Tricia, that is, since she's a Commoner. Since there aren't really any other actual candidates for the crown anyway, this is pretty much a win-win bet for him.

Some of the lines in this book are so awful that I can only reproduce them here and let you judge them for yourself.

"Princesses are supposed to be virgins and wear white for purity when they marry."

Oh, you did not just say that after telling Tricia that you'd set her up in a nice apartment in the city, YOU MASSIVE HYPOCRITE.

Did she expect a marriage proposal before she'd go to bed with him? She was enchanting, but he needed a dutiful compliant queen like his aunt. And Tricia wouldn't live compliantly under Cordillera's laws. She'd agitate for more privileges for women.

WELL GOOD FOR HER, said I.

Lawrence believed men better fulfilled their traditional roles as bread winners and leaders. Women should be the nurturers and lovers they were meant to be, although he supposed they could handle motherhood and part time jobs.
HOW MIGHTY BIG OF HIM. Women can 'handle' motherhood??? WHO ELSE DOES HE THINK IS GOING TO DO IT???

And then... and then, somehow, it got worse. Lawrence and Tricia are talking about the missing princess Tricia is substituting for, who may have run off with her college professor - they suspect she's pregnant - and this GEM comes out.

"We can't allow that. She'll have to have an abortion under strict secrecy."

Yes. You read that right. He said that 'we' (as in the royal we) would FORCE a woman (a princess no less) to HAVE AN ABORTION because she is having a child OUT OF WEDLOCK.

This was the point at which I threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Honestly, from this point on I was skim-reading because I just wanted to read the epic grovel (which never happened). There was a sex scene at 95% of the way through the book at which Lawrence finally seduced Tricia and they had sex in a pool. After that they go back to his room and he produces a bunch of condoms, at which point Tricia realizes that they didn't use protection before, and I swear to God I'm not making this up, thinks

Hopefully the flowing waters took care of that worry.

Well, it might be how the Force works, but it's sure as shit not how birth control works, honey.

This book is an absolute hot mess. It's poorly researched with an utterly nonsensical plot and the most dislikable hero I've read since Christian Grey. I absolutely hated it. One star.

Disclaimer: I received this book for review through NetGalley.

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