Book Reviews, Booksneeze

“Once Upon a Prince” by Rachel Hauck

Jenna Evans

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Book Description

Once Upon a Prince, the first novel in the Royal Wedding series by bestselling author Rachel Hauck, treats you to a modern-day fairy tale.

Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess—just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life.

The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simon’s Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family’s tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna’s aid under the fabled Lover’s Oak, he is blindsided by love.

Their lives are worlds apart. He’s a royal prince. She’s an ordinary girl. But everything changes when Susanna receives an invitation to Nathaniel’s coronation.

My Review

So this book took me a while to get to as I read a lot of books and this one was an Ebook which I don’t like as well as a real book. Anyways, I really liked this book and although I don’t think I will ever fall in love with a prince, I could really relate to this book!

Susanna Truitt thinks she is love with her boyfriend of 12 years until he tells her that he wants to break up which totally comes out of the blue to her. When I read this part I totally understood because I had just found out something about someone I really cared about for a really long time. I was devastated, but just like Susanna I realized I was grateful that it happened and that I didn’t get any more involved than I already was.

Truthfully, I am a hopeless romantic with no love life so I read romance because I love sappy romance. This book was definitely a typical romance with a few twists and turns. I loved reading it and would recommend it to anyone who loves a good romance with a prince!

I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars!

I received this book courtesy of Booksneeze in exchange for my honest opinion.

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Amazon Student! Sign up!

Jenna Evans

Update: It looks like you can’t get the instant video until you upgrade to the $39/year. 😦 On the bright side you can still get the free 2-day shipping for 6 months! 🙂

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If you are a college student, go sign up through my link for Amazon Student! Just make sure you have a VALID college email address that ends with .edu and also that you have access to this email! This entitles you to six months of Amazon Prime for FREE!! This is an awesome thing! I have been apart of this program throughout my college years and it helps with shipping your textbooks because you get free 2-day shipping!

Amazon Prime includes:

Unlimited watching of the Prime Instant Video (app for iPhone, iPod, iPad, android and gaming consoles!) There are a lot of awesome shows that are not on Netflix or Hulu which includes my favorite right now, Under the Dome (amazing show which is based off of a Steven King novel).

Free 2-day shipping

You can borrow 1 book a month from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library

Also, after the six months you get to have Amazon Prime for $39/year for up to 4 years! This is half of what it normally costs and if you are like me the instant videos is worth it since Netflix is $8.50 a month. This only comes out to about $3.50 and you will save on shipping too! I love me some Amazon!

Again, go here to sign up!

Book Reviews, Tyndale

*Book Review*~ In Broken Places by Michele Phoenix

Jenna Evans

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The description of the book from Tyndale’s website:

Shelby’s life isn’t glamorous, but it is predictable—and that’s the way she likes it. A survivor of her father’s violence, she has spent a lifetime creating a safe existence devoid of dependence. But her carefully managed world begins to break when, under staggering circumstances, she becomes a single mother to four-year-old Shayla. In a drastic attempt to escape her childhood’s influence, Shelby moves to Germany, but she quickly discovers how intimately linked memory and healing are—and how honestly she must scrutinize her past in order to aspire to a richer future. As she juggles a new job, a new culture, a new daughter, and the attention of an enterprising man, Shelby’s fresh start becomes a quest for the courage to be not only a survivor, but someone who prevails.

My thoughts:

Overall, I loved this book! There were pieces in this book that were thrown my way that I never guessed would of happened, but there were also predictable things that happened just like any other romance novel. The book was confusing at first with going back and forth between the past and the present, but I soon figured it out which helped make me like the book even more.

The story of Shelby and her sister which you find out pretty early in the book. Showing how even through the things that Shelby went through with her father in her past, she could still love her sister as much as she would her own despite the age difference and Shayla only being her half sister. Child abuse is not an easy thing to incorporate into a story, but the author did a great job! This book was thoughtfully put together and I am grateful for the chance to read the book.

I give this book a 4.5 stars out of 5 stars.

I received this book from Tyndale in exchange for my honest review.