#TheWriteReads #UltimateBlogTour Review: Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

A cute fantastical story, full of great character dynamics and mysteriously magical plots

Thank you so much to The Write Reads and Penguin for allowing me to be part of this experience and also providing me with a complimentary eARC and media kit!

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About the Author

Connie Glynn has always loved writing and wrote her first story when she was six, with her mum at a typewriter acting as her scribe. She had a love for performing stories from a young age and attended Guildhall drama classes as a teenager. This passion for stories has never left her, and Connie recently finished a degree in film theory. It was at university that Connie started her hugely successful YouTube channel Noodlerella (named after her favourite food and favourite Disney princess). After five years of publicly documenting her life and hobbies to an audience of 900,000 subscribers on YouTube, Connie closed the book on the Noodlerella project in a bid for more privacy and to pursue her original passions in the performing arts. Connie now writes music and fiction full- time. Follow Connie on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr @ConnieGlynn

Review

Book CWs

For a list of warnings, tropes, and representation for this book, check out its page on BookTriggerWarnings.com.

Premise

When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life.

Lottie is thrust into the real world of royalty – a world filled with secrets, intrigue and betrayal. She must do everything she can to help Ellie keep her secret, but with school, the looming Maradovian ball and the mysterious new boy Jamie, she’ll soon discover that reality doesn’t always have the happily ever after you’d expect…

A thrilling world of parties, politics and bad ass princesses, this is the first book in the brand new series THE ROSEWOOD CHRONICLES.

Review (No Spoilers)

Welcome back to my blog where today is day 2 of back-to-back blog tour posts! Today’s review is for Undercover Princess, book 1 in The Rosewood Chronicles.

Undercover Princess is a bit of a difficult book to describe. It is kind of an upper middle grade or lower young adult book, and though it is classified as fantasy, I have a hard time giving it that label. The book barely has any fantasy elements in it other than the fact that there’s nobility involved. There are a few instances of possibly-magical influences affecting the plot, but these are never explicitly verified. I can only imagine that the series will get more fantastical as the books progress.

The other thing that makes this a hard book to describe is the fact that it’s supposed to take place during modern times (there’s mentions of cell phones, video games, etc.) but it feels very historical. The characters are forced to give up their cell phones once the term starts, so a majority of the book seems like it takes place in the past rather than in current day. I’m not sure why there was a choice to make this a contemporary rather than a historical fantasy because I think it might have worked better in historical contexts.

I think this book will definitely appeal to a lot of younger teens, especially those around the main character’s ages (14 years old). It has a lot of cute elements and a variety of character dynamics that anyone would enjoy. Lottie and Ellie, in particular, have the most amazing friendship and the addition of Jamie to make it a trio only served to make their interactions even better. There were a few times I was confused by the writing: the aforementioned note about the historical-ness of it, as well as a strange repetition of the word “anti-thesis” that bothered me considering this is a middle grade/lower YA and that’s not a word I hear a lot. Perhaps it’s used more in the UK?

Overall, I would definitely recommend this to young teens who love royalty and fairytales as well as any adults who are interested! This book tour involves posts for both book 1 (Undercover Princess) and the new release of book 5 (Princess Ever After), so be sure to check out the other posts. If you’d like to follow along with the rest of the tour, you can find the tour schedule here!

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