The Princess and the Superstar

by Preethi Venugopala

A Princess in love with a Bollywood Superstar

Saketh Rao aka SR, India's latest Bollywood heartthrob, has bagged the role of a lifetime: to play Hari Varman, the doomed royal scion.

When he arrives at Sravanapura Palace with his director friend Rajeev Ratnam, little does he know that his life is about to change forever!

Princess Kritika is overjoyed that Saketh Rao will play the role of her ancestor. But when she comes face to face with the arrogant superstar she is determined to scuttle the project.

Fate, however, has different plans for them. The feisty couple is soon head over heels in love with each other.

As they uncover the secrets of Hari Varman's life, Saketh makes a discovery that can rip them apart and their new-found love.

Will the secrets and lies of the past deny them a future together? Or will they overcome the obstacles to true love?

Genres: Romance

185 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2018

About the author

Preethi Venugopala is a Civil Engineer by profession and an avid writer, blogger, artist by passion.
She always liked stories. When alone, she would create stories in her mind but never thought about penning them down until a break from her regular job as a Civil Engineer prompted her to take up blogging.
Flash fictions written for various prompts, and winning story writing competitions led to publications of short stories in various anthologies. Several of her short stories are published on Juggernaut books platform.

She debuted as a novelist with 'Without You', which became the #1 bestseller in its category on Amazon.1 many times since its release. She has added 9 more bestsellers to her kitty. Á Royal Affair', 'His Sunshine Girl', 'The Princess and the Superstar', 'Remember When', 'The Lost Princess', 'Falling for Cinderella', 'My Warmest Sorrow', "The Girl at the Wedding', and her latest 'Love and Longing in Firefly season'.

She currently lives in Bangalore with her husband and son. When not penning down the stories of the voices in her head, she can be found curled up on a couch with her favourite book.

Reviews

[Medha Nagur · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been meaning to read a book written by Preethi and this was my first one. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it till the end.There were some great twists towards the end, although, I was wondering about the same and the missing link between the content in the prologue and the superstar (won't spoil it for you though by revealing much about it)!

However, I didn't see the closure for couple of things at the end as I kept wondering what happened to the movie they were planning to make and an aspect related to Rudra Dev and his secret!

But otherwise this is a wonderful book to indulge in on any rainy day because of the steamy scenes in it!!!

[Arti · Rating 5 out of 5]

The simple story has been written beautifully. Our madam is a hoity toity no nonsense princess. And in comes someone who is used to adulation. What happens, sparks fly.
The characters have been etched beautifully. Even the supporting characters have a role to play in the story. The prologue sets the ball rolling. And during the course of reading the book, I was looking for the characters mentioned in the prologue.
The language is simple and the story moves along with twists and turns.
Waiting for Ishaani’s story next.

[Ruchi Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely story in a fabulous setting! Krtika and Saketh are so right for each other. The sub-plots add spice to the explosive romance. This one is best amongst all I have read by the author.

[Shrruti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Devoured into it

As always, I am just unable to put down the books written by Preethi! Read this one in one sitting! Such an intriguing plot And twists! Revelation after revelation keeps the reader looking for more - result , slept after hearing the birds at dawn yet dreaming about the starry night at Sravanapura mysterious cottage chamber!
A must read!!!!

[Kavita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I interrupted my current reads to read this newrelease
'The princess and the superstar' book 2 in the Sravanapura Royal series

This is the story of Princess Kritika and Superstar actor Saket.
A royal mystery along with a royal romance
Simple yet very beautifully written story.
You will fall in love with these Royals.

Loved it!

You need such stories for a lazy afternoon and also in between heavy reads.
If you love books of the romance genre with a hint of thrill or mystery this one is for you!!

[Adite · Rating 4 out of 5]

What happens when a Bollywood superstar meets a real princess? Sparks fly and love is in the air! Preethi's latest romance saga in the Sravaranapura royal series has loads of drama as well as romance. The author keeps the reader engaged with some inventive twists and turns. A fun read!

[Janelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a sweet, relatively chaste romance novel. While the blurb gave the impression that Saketh was going to be a bit of a heel, he actually was fairly kind to the princess. Kritika was perhaps a bit more naive than I prefer my heroines, but not so much as to strain the bounds of credulity.

The writing is not strong. It may be that English is not the author's first language--in which case, the author speaks better English than I speak any language other than English. But it means that much of the book has very awkward or stiff phrasing. For example:

The things he talked about were things she liked, in fact, she seemed to like the things he talked about.

I struggled a lot with the stiff writing and passive voice. The characters aren't drawn with a great deal of depth. However, ultimately, it really is a very sweet story.

[Rennie Mathews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another wonderful movie in a book form!

Too good. Feel it's was a movie and hope it's made into one soon. The highs and lows were perfectly set, along with a twist. Read & hope you, too,enjoy it like me. Do read the first book, "Royal Affair", before this, to be in sequence.

[A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A light - hearted read with romance as main ingredient but with a pinch of suspense gives you the right recipe to brighten up one's mood. I loved reading it so much that i managed to finish it in one sitting

[Angela Peixoto · Rating 5 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed revisiting the Sravanapura palace this time to read about the love of Princess Kritika and Saketh. An unputdownable royal romance filled with mistery.

[Sudha Nair · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a fun and interesting hate-turns-to-love tale with oodles of oomph and drama. The twists at the end were most lively and unexpected. Great read!

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Beautiful Indian love story
Steamy romance
I love this author
I want to read more by this author
I love Indian romance

[sandhya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best one

Beautifully written with the breathtaking twists and turns. One of the best books by the author. Each and every character was portrayed elegantly.

[Jinal Shah (If I Were Marketing) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was keen to read a romance from an indian author and Preethi doesn't disappoint. It's very well written and the story is pretty engaging with good twists and turns. Worth reading.

[Bijosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Story

Beautiful story well written and explained everything minutely without stretching it unnecessary. Its nothing in it that I don't like.

[Sundarraj Kaushik · Rating 1 out of 5]

The saga of the prince continues. This time the princess falls in love with a Bollywood superstar and then has a fall out with him due to certain circumstances beyond the ken of both.

Will they get back together? If so how?

Might be a decent read for lovers of romance.

[Sudesna Ghosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unique setting and very cool plot. This book is my favourite by the author.