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Her Royal Bodyguard #1
Her Royal Bodyguard
What happens when a female Bodyguard starts to fall in love with the Princess they are supposed to be protecting?
Following an accident, Sergeant Erin Kennedy gets the promotion of her life, becoming bodyguard to Princess Alexandra, the future Queen of England.
Rule Number One in the Bodyguard handbook is: Never fall in love with the client.
Princess Alexandra is due to marry a Prince. So, when Erin starts to secretly develop feelings for the charismatic Princess she knows it can only ever end in tears.
Erin finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a tangled web of duty, responsibilities and secrets with the Princess.
How much pressure can both women take before they begin to break?
Following an accident, Sergeant Erin Kennedy gets the promotion of her life, becoming bodyguard to Princess Alexandra, the future Queen of England.
Rule Number One in the Bodyguard handbook is: Never fall in love with the client.
Princess Alexandra is due to marry a Prince. So, when Erin starts to secretly develop feelings for the charismatic Princess she knows it can only ever end in tears.
Erin finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a tangled web of duty, responsibilities and secrets with the Princess.
How much pressure can both women take before they begin to break?
238 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2020
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About the author
Margaux Fox
170 books108 followersMargaux Fox is a writer of Contemporary Lesbian Romance with plenty of emotion and depth that will make you feel everything the characters are feeling.
Love stories in challenging circumstances are Margaux's speciality. Whatever the obstacles, the strength of the love and raw chemistry between the characters will always shine through.
When not absorbed in writing, Margaux loves to play sports and spend time with her two dogs and three cats.
Margaux has written stories since childhood and has always loved to write.
Margaux lives in the UK and has had an eclectic career history allowing her to write stories that give you a real insight into different lives.
Love stories in challenging circumstances are Margaux's speciality. Whatever the obstacles, the strength of the love and raw chemistry between the characters will always shine through.
When not absorbed in writing, Margaux loves to play sports and spend time with her two dogs and three cats.
Margaux has written stories since childhood and has always loved to write.
Margaux lives in the UK and has had an eclectic career history allowing her to write stories that give you a real insight into different lives.
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May 31, 2020
Enjoyed this though the writing didn't quite work and the story was a fairytale with "WTF" conitations. Could have been fleshed out more - but helped past an afternoon of Isolation Blues. Love the cover of mine on Kindle, very different to the austure lady on the front of this one!
April 6, 2021
Bit short but I liked it... only 'cause I'm a geek and I love history, tradition and the whole idea of royalty pique my interests.
September 17, 2020
DNF@21%... I love this trope with the bodyguard and protectee, but this one just didn’t do it for me. The bodyguard sounded like an adolescent and not an actual professional bodyguard... and that’s such a turn-off and basically crushed my excitement for this story. I don’t know... maybe it was the writing, but I just wasn’t feeling it.
July 8, 2020
Well this book was trash. And a continuous string of F*ck you too moments.
Girlfriend really wasn’t the right word. On/off because she couldn’t decide what she wanted. Sophie was twenty nine years old and still had no idea what she wanted. A man or a woman? A relationship or not a relationship? Sophie changed her jobs as regularly as she changed her boyfriends and girlfriends. Sophie was charming and lovely and pretty but entirely unreliable as a partner.
Yo, authors. Don't be casually biphobic, or at least have your characters casual biphobia challenged.
Please don't interweave a person's sexuality into her 'unreliable' personality.
THANK YOU.
Fat is something Alexandra cannot afford to be. So Alexandra is thin. Mostly thin. She has a gym, she has a personal trainer, she has a nutritionist and chef. Just thin enough to look perfect in clothes. Just thin enough so her breasts are still full and her ass is still round; she cannot afford to look unfeminine either.
I'm sure it's not, but this pissed me off.
“Take me, Erin. I know you want me. I’ve seen your eyes on my body. I’ve seen your desire for me. Show me your world. Show me how much you want me. Take me places I have never been before.”
Cringe.
It probably wasn’t the wisest life choice in the world but she was completely and irrevocably in love with this woman.
Well done. You just paraphrased Twilight. BYE.
Girlfriend really wasn’t the right word. On/off because she couldn’t decide what she wanted. Sophie was twenty nine years old and still had no idea what she wanted. A man or a woman? A relationship or not a relationship? Sophie changed her jobs as regularly as she changed her boyfriends and girlfriends. Sophie was charming and lovely and pretty but entirely unreliable as a partner.
Yo, authors. Don't be casually biphobic, or at least have your characters casual biphobia challenged.
Please don't interweave a person's sexuality into her 'unreliable' personality.
THANK YOU.
Fat is something Alexandra cannot afford to be. So Alexandra is thin. Mostly thin. She has a gym, she has a personal trainer, she has a nutritionist and chef. Just thin enough to look perfect in clothes. Just thin enough so her breasts are still full and her ass is still round; she cannot afford to look unfeminine either.
I'm sure it's not, but this pissed me off.
“Take me, Erin. I know you want me. I’ve seen your eyes on my body. I’ve seen your desire for me. Show me your world. Show me how much you want me. Take me places I have never been before.”
Cringe.
It probably wasn’t the wisest life choice in the world but she was completely and irrevocably in love with this woman.
Well done. You just paraphrased Twilight. BYE.
June 1, 2020
This was a quick and easy read, a little too much like a fairy tale. But it was a nice story, nevertheless.
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July 11, 2020TRIGGER WARNING RAPE
can i give 0 out five stars? this book was the worst thing i read this year and im saying this of a year i read autoboyography?
the potential was TOO much and the author wasted it being biphobic and fatphobic and all other phobics towards every other sexuality, body size etc.
you know you can write a sapphic romance wout show how much you hate other sexualities, right?
also... why in the heck would the author write a rape scene like that? because yeah even though the characters acted like it was “nothing” and like it was a “tempt of rape” im sorry to disappoint but if anyone violates you to the point you bleed you were raped.
i cant even start to say how bad this written is, can i? because omg this book is so so so so bad written i cant believe i actually finished it.
absolutely disgusted by this history that i started believing id love.
can i give 0 out five stars? this book was the worst thing i read this year and im saying this of a year i read autoboyography?
the potential was TOO much and the author wasted it being biphobic and fatphobic and all other phobics towards every other sexuality, body size etc.
you know you can write a sapphic romance wout show how much you hate other sexualities, right?
also... why in the heck would the author write a rape scene like that? because yeah even though the characters acted like it was “nothing” and like it was a “tempt of rape” im sorry to disappoint but if anyone violates you to the point you bleed you were raped.
i cant even start to say how bad this written is, can i? because omg this book is so so so so bad written i cant believe i actually finished it.
absolutely disgusted by this history that i started believing id love.
February 1, 2021
Romances involving royalty, particularly princess and bodyguard, are a common trope in lesfic and general romances. Something about the fantasy of a princess (or any famous personality) getting romantically involved with their bodyguard (or personal trainer) seems to appeal to all romantics of the world.
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June 19, 2020
Not bad, but not great either. A very simple low angst and quick novel. Two hours tops. So not much depth.
There really wasn't much chemistry between the characters for me, their love felt more lustful than any deeper connection. I felt we hardly even got to know the characters.
The ending wrapped up far too quickly and easily too.
But sometimes you do just want that quick easy HEA read, so this is definitely that kind of book.
There really wasn't much chemistry between the characters for me, their love felt more lustful than any deeper connection. I felt we hardly even got to know the characters.
The ending wrapped up far too quickly and easily too.
But sometimes you do just want that quick easy HEA read, so this is definitely that kind of book.
June 28, 2020
I honestly had to check this book hadn't been written by a man a little bit into the book. Also, tw for rape??
I couldn't get very much past the rape bit and gave up on the book, so I can't comment on whatever the ending might have been and how the plot is. The actual writing of the book however, is pretty bad. The characters feel like caricatures and absolute stereotypes. Pity, I was all ready to enjoy a cute defy-the-odds romance.
I couldn't get very much past the rape bit and gave up on the book, so I can't comment on whatever the ending might have been and how the plot is. The actual writing of the book however, is pretty bad. The characters feel like caricatures and absolute stereotypes. Pity, I was all ready to enjoy a cute defy-the-odds romance.
May 6, 2020
This book is so my cup of tea! I loved it. The bodyguard trope is one of my favs. Added bonus that the Princess is a sweet heart...swoon. This is a super quick read and just a lovely fluffy fantasy with a HEA. I want a follow-up please Ms Margaux Fox!! :)
June 22, 2020
There is an un-warned for rape scene in first 20 of the book, but I got to 78% when a male character reveals himself to be asexual and calls it embarrassing, not very manly, shameful. Then, the main character literally mocks him for it. No fucking thank you.
July 23, 2025
3.25 ⭐
May 23, 2020
I read this in a matter of hours. Giving this new author the benefit of the doubt, I still found the writing stilted at times and the sentences choppy. It didn't flow very easily. I also couldn't connect to either protagonist, and I found some of the characteristics of all the characters too abrupt and over-dramatic. I also found the over usage of !? combined with the "Er" annoying and distracting. However, the message at the end of the book was beautiful. A message like that cloaks all the mistakes inside the story. I was also impressed with the author who had once upon a time been a bodyguard, herself. Respect.
Keep writing!
Keep writing!
September 13, 2020
I'm giving this a 2 for trying, because there were a couple of times I went 'awww', but the majority of the time I went, 'wait, what?' , 'ewww!', 'seriously?', 'oh, come on!'. I finished this book last night and I usually write a review straight away, but there were a few things that bothered me that I had to think on before I put finger to keyboard or screen.
Before I start, I'm giving a trigger warning for rape/sexual assault.
The idea of this book was a good one, it's a common trope in lesfic and lots of people love it - me included - bodyguard gets swept into the circle of an unobtainable woman and they fall in love (whether she be a Princess, President, married to a President, Prime Minister, Queen etc). Who doesn't like a bit of forbidden love?
I was hoping for a passionate and emotional read. I didn't get it. The King, is pressuring the early 30s Princess Alexandra to choose a husband and produce the next Royal heir. He gives her a year to do it and hands her a stack of suitable candidates.
Meanwhile, her usual close protection has had an accident and needs to be replaced. Alexandra interviews Erin, and seems to hire her based on the fact she can ride a horse well - as in she would be able to keep up with Alexandra as they go galloping off hell for leather over fallen trees in forests and over glens or along hidden beaches (they do go riding on the family estate, but nothing so romantic as that - shame).
Erin is a lesbian, and after a few short weeks is lusting after the Princess. The Princess is secretly lusting after her too. One evening, after a meal with the man she is tentatively thinking about marrying, he goes back to her rooms, assaults her and I am going to say he rapes her. The scene involves him penetrating her with his fingers and she bleeds - it sounds like he broke her hymen - which is odd since she's done all that aggressive horse riding - if it wasn't her hymen that broke causing her to bleed, then he was that rough with his fingers that he damaged her. I'm not sure which is worse. Erin barges in and saves the day. The author describes this as a 'near-rape'. B*llocks, you don't need to use a penis to rape someone. The Princess breaks it off with him and it is never spoken of again. I had a major issue with this scene and I nearly abandoned the book there, not because it triggered me, but because the author did not recognise the weight of the trauma she was describing.
Erin reveals she has had girlfriends – well, an on again off again girlfriend (Sophie) who apparently can’t decide whether she likes women or men, or if she wants a committed relationship or not. This is put across as a problem – passive bi/polyamorous-hate right there. The Princess grasps hold of this as a ray of hope and concocts a plan to disguise herself and spend an evening out in Soho with Erin - hitting the gay bars. Everything is going well, there is some dancing, Erin scares off anyone who might be interested in the Princess, including a drunken man she beats up in the street. They escape, end up kissing, make it back to the Royal abode. The Princess declares Erin has saved her several times.
Erin's boss is made aware of her escapade through some CCTV footage and she gets a b*llocking, but the Princess will not allow her to be fired. Aside from Erin's boss shouting and swearing at her, we don't see any of the behind the scenes workings that would have made that happen. I'm also a little surprised that someone on close protection detail suddenly forgot (because of their desire) that you can't move two steps in Soho without being caught on CCTV, there are cameras on every corner and pretty much every building, it's central London, two miles from Kensington Palace - seriously. The author also seems surprised she forgot.
Erin and the Princess carry on an illicit love affair with the Princess summoning Erin by text message most evenings to have hot and dirty sex – not make love, f-ing. To be honest, I didn’t find the sex scenes that hot, they kind of turned me off, which is the opposite of what should happen. I don’t know whether it was the writing, the crass descriptions, the lack of emotion or all of the above, but they just didn’t do it for me. Also, can someone please tell me what an ‘orgasm rash’ is? I can’t say I’ve ever seen one on myself or any other woman. I’ve seen someone’s skin across their chest flush from desire and excitement, but they have never broken out in a rash like the Princess does, twice. Maybe it’s her blue blood…regardless, it made me think of meningitis and syphilis rather than ecstasy.
Back to the Princess needing to marry a man. She decides to check out a Swedish Prince by the name of Nicolas – so they would be Nicolas and Alexandra – I half expected a priest called Rasputin to pop up. Everything seems to be going along ok, aside from the fact that Erin’s heart is breaking. She is in love with the Princess and must watch her marry some guy. But wait for it, Nicolas confides to the Princess that he is asexual and does not want to sleep with her but would be happy to stand in her shadow to bring prestige to his own royal house. He has a sneaking suspicion the Princess has her own secrets. The Princess thinks this is a win and excitedly tells Erin that they will be able to carry on their liaison while she is married to a guy who has no intertest in her sexually. Erin is aghast that the Prince could not find her sexually attractive. I think this is an unfair representation of asexuality. It equates love and intimacy with sex. They are very different things. People who are asexual are not incapable of love, they get married to people they have deep emotional bonds with, just like anyone else. By agreeing to marry Alexandra, Nicolas is also denying himself a normal life for the sake of his country, yet it is presented as an almost trivial thing by the author and a quick fix for the Princess.
The Princess realises the situation is not fair on Erin – they can never be together properly – so she breaks it off and spends some time ignoring her, with disastrous consequences. The Princess becomes ill, has a panic attack, doesn’t know what is wrong with her. Erin is also having her own silent melt down. The Princess decides to confide in Nicolas and he rushes to London to talk to her. He convinces her to come out, tell the King and her mother, it’s 2020 after all - think of all the good she could do inspiring closeted people to come out. The Princess thinks this is a wonderful idea (even though Erin suggested it way back at the start of their relationship and the Princess dismissed it as something that could never happen for the sake of the monarchy – but if Nicolas thinks it will work…yeah). So, the Princess comes out to her parents, a press conference is called, she tells the public she is gay, she is given a stately home to live in with Erin (who is apparently more middle class than she ever let on so she is an ok match for a Princess after all), and everything is hunky dory.
This last part of the book seemed to happen in such a rush. We do not see the Princess talking to her parents, we are just told she did. We don’t see any of the preparations for her big coming out, she just does it. We don’t get any emotional input from Erin as to how she feels about all this, it just happens.
I think the author missed a massive opportunity, not only to show character growth with these things, but to make the characters and their experiences more relatable. I would loved to have seen a scene where the Princess plucks up the courage to go to her father and tell him she is gay, always has been, and there is nothing he can do about it so he needs to accept she will never marry a man. He would ignore her, hand her a dossier and tell her he has another prospective suitor for her to evaluate. She freaks out, shouts at him, saying this is why she has been silent for so long, he is incapable of understanding her needs. Then she opens the dossier in anger, ready to throw it in his face only to see a picture of Erin staring back at her. Her father suspected her feelings, he is after all her father as well as King, he knows her better than she knows herself and was surprised it took her so long to come to her senses and confront him about the antiquated rules of monarchy – she is the new generation, a catalyst of change etc, etc…but we got what we got.
Geez, this is a long one, if you’ve read this far, I salute you. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this book. What could have been a great read turned out to be mediocre at best. It presents itself as romance, but the contrast between the characters and the descriptions of sex were too jarring. I’m pretty sure this was due to the sex scene writing. That seemed kind of hard core for a romance – there were some things that made me cringe – massage oil essentially being used as lubricant – penetration in bath water (that’s an infection waiting to happen, it’s not sexy to think of all that gross bacteria and goodness knows what chemicals from the bubble bath being pushed up into a Princess) – the rash thing – and just the overall expression (they don’t make love or even have sex, they f*ck – it didn’t go with the beautiful princess persona). Perhaps if there was more emotion in the sex scenes rather than just a description of what they were doing to each other it might have worked more. But as it stands, Erin descriptively f*cks the Princess pretty much the same way she f*cks the on-again-off-again-not-sure-if-she-wants-a-man-or-a-woman Sophie.
If this had a thorough edit, the characters made more rounded, the sex less porn, and the issues of rape, bisexuality, and asexuality not used as passive-aggressive tools, then I'd give it another read.
Before I start, I'm giving a trigger warning for rape/sexual assault.
The idea of this book was a good one, it's a common trope in lesfic and lots of people love it - me included - bodyguard gets swept into the circle of an unobtainable woman and they fall in love (whether she be a Princess, President, married to a President, Prime Minister, Queen etc). Who doesn't like a bit of forbidden love?
I was hoping for a passionate and emotional read. I didn't get it. The King, is pressuring the early 30s Princess Alexandra to choose a husband and produce the next Royal heir. He gives her a year to do it and hands her a stack of suitable candidates.
Meanwhile, her usual close protection has had an accident and needs to be replaced. Alexandra interviews Erin, and seems to hire her based on the fact she can ride a horse well - as in she would be able to keep up with Alexandra as they go galloping off hell for leather over fallen trees in forests and over glens or along hidden beaches (they do go riding on the family estate, but nothing so romantic as that - shame).
Erin is a lesbian, and after a few short weeks is lusting after the Princess. The Princess is secretly lusting after her too. One evening, after a meal with the man she is tentatively thinking about marrying, he goes back to her rooms, assaults her and I am going to say he rapes her. The scene involves him penetrating her with his fingers and she bleeds - it sounds like he broke her hymen - which is odd since she's done all that aggressive horse riding - if it wasn't her hymen that broke causing her to bleed, then he was that rough with his fingers that he damaged her. I'm not sure which is worse. Erin barges in and saves the day. The author describes this as a 'near-rape'. B*llocks, you don't need to use a penis to rape someone. The Princess breaks it off with him and it is never spoken of again. I had a major issue with this scene and I nearly abandoned the book there, not because it triggered me, but because the author did not recognise the weight of the trauma she was describing.
Erin reveals she has had girlfriends – well, an on again off again girlfriend (Sophie) who apparently can’t decide whether she likes women or men, or if she wants a committed relationship or not. This is put across as a problem – passive bi/polyamorous-hate right there. The Princess grasps hold of this as a ray of hope and concocts a plan to disguise herself and spend an evening out in Soho with Erin - hitting the gay bars. Everything is going well, there is some dancing, Erin scares off anyone who might be interested in the Princess, including a drunken man she beats up in the street. They escape, end up kissing, make it back to the Royal abode. The Princess declares Erin has saved her several times.
Erin's boss is made aware of her escapade through some CCTV footage and she gets a b*llocking, but the Princess will not allow her to be fired. Aside from Erin's boss shouting and swearing at her, we don't see any of the behind the scenes workings that would have made that happen. I'm also a little surprised that someone on close protection detail suddenly forgot (because of their desire) that you can't move two steps in Soho without being caught on CCTV, there are cameras on every corner and pretty much every building, it's central London, two miles from Kensington Palace - seriously. The author also seems surprised she forgot.
Erin and the Princess carry on an illicit love affair with the Princess summoning Erin by text message most evenings to have hot and dirty sex – not make love, f-ing. To be honest, I didn’t find the sex scenes that hot, they kind of turned me off, which is the opposite of what should happen. I don’t know whether it was the writing, the crass descriptions, the lack of emotion or all of the above, but they just didn’t do it for me. Also, can someone please tell me what an ‘orgasm rash’ is? I can’t say I’ve ever seen one on myself or any other woman. I’ve seen someone’s skin across their chest flush from desire and excitement, but they have never broken out in a rash like the Princess does, twice. Maybe it’s her blue blood…regardless, it made me think of meningitis and syphilis rather than ecstasy.
Back to the Princess needing to marry a man. She decides to check out a Swedish Prince by the name of Nicolas – so they would be Nicolas and Alexandra – I half expected a priest called Rasputin to pop up. Everything seems to be going along ok, aside from the fact that Erin’s heart is breaking. She is in love with the Princess and must watch her marry some guy. But wait for it, Nicolas confides to the Princess that he is asexual and does not want to sleep with her but would be happy to stand in her shadow to bring prestige to his own royal house. He has a sneaking suspicion the Princess has her own secrets. The Princess thinks this is a win and excitedly tells Erin that they will be able to carry on their liaison while she is married to a guy who has no intertest in her sexually. Erin is aghast that the Prince could not find her sexually attractive. I think this is an unfair representation of asexuality. It equates love and intimacy with sex. They are very different things. People who are asexual are not incapable of love, they get married to people they have deep emotional bonds with, just like anyone else. By agreeing to marry Alexandra, Nicolas is also denying himself a normal life for the sake of his country, yet it is presented as an almost trivial thing by the author and a quick fix for the Princess.
The Princess realises the situation is not fair on Erin – they can never be together properly – so she breaks it off and spends some time ignoring her, with disastrous consequences. The Princess becomes ill, has a panic attack, doesn’t know what is wrong with her. Erin is also having her own silent melt down. The Princess decides to confide in Nicolas and he rushes to London to talk to her. He convinces her to come out, tell the King and her mother, it’s 2020 after all - think of all the good she could do inspiring closeted people to come out. The Princess thinks this is a wonderful idea (even though Erin suggested it way back at the start of their relationship and the Princess dismissed it as something that could never happen for the sake of the monarchy – but if Nicolas thinks it will work…yeah). So, the Princess comes out to her parents, a press conference is called, she tells the public she is gay, she is given a stately home to live in with Erin (who is apparently more middle class than she ever let on so she is an ok match for a Princess after all), and everything is hunky dory.
This last part of the book seemed to happen in such a rush. We do not see the Princess talking to her parents, we are just told she did. We don’t see any of the preparations for her big coming out, she just does it. We don’t get any emotional input from Erin as to how she feels about all this, it just happens.
I think the author missed a massive opportunity, not only to show character growth with these things, but to make the characters and their experiences more relatable. I would loved to have seen a scene where the Princess plucks up the courage to go to her father and tell him she is gay, always has been, and there is nothing he can do about it so he needs to accept she will never marry a man. He would ignore her, hand her a dossier and tell her he has another prospective suitor for her to evaluate. She freaks out, shouts at him, saying this is why she has been silent for so long, he is incapable of understanding her needs. Then she opens the dossier in anger, ready to throw it in his face only to see a picture of Erin staring back at her. Her father suspected her feelings, he is after all her father as well as King, he knows her better than she knows herself and was surprised it took her so long to come to her senses and confront him about the antiquated rules of monarchy – she is the new generation, a catalyst of change etc, etc…but we got what we got.
Geez, this is a long one, if you’ve read this far, I salute you. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this book. What could have been a great read turned out to be mediocre at best. It presents itself as romance, but the contrast between the characters and the descriptions of sex were too jarring. I’m pretty sure this was due to the sex scene writing. That seemed kind of hard core for a romance – there were some things that made me cringe – massage oil essentially being used as lubricant – penetration in bath water (that’s an infection waiting to happen, it’s not sexy to think of all that gross bacteria and goodness knows what chemicals from the bubble bath being pushed up into a Princess) – the rash thing – and just the overall expression (they don’t make love or even have sex, they f*ck – it didn’t go with the beautiful princess persona). Perhaps if there was more emotion in the sex scenes rather than just a description of what they were doing to each other it might have worked more. But as it stands, Erin descriptively f*cks the Princess pretty much the same way she f*cks the on-again-off-again-not-sure-if-she-wants-a-man-or-a-woman Sophie.
If this had a thorough edit, the characters made more rounded, the sex less porn, and the issues of rape, bisexuality, and asexuality not used as passive-aggressive tools, then I'd give it another read.
June 25, 2023
I am forever anti-police and pro an independent Scottish republic but this was cute and I continue to really enjoy Margaux Fox's writing. Plus im a slut for royalty/bodyguard and Erin was hot! Intrigued to see where the series goes!
March 1, 2022
A crown in the balance and a princess discovering she can live her truth and crown at the same time. The MCs are hot and heavy once they are together so definitely NSFW! And delightfully so. Little bit of angst, mild panic, then soaring through the clouds of love. While predictable, the beginning, middle, and end are wonderfully written and the MCs are scrumptious.
August 24, 2020
3.5 stars.
August 31, 2020
3 stars. buddy read
This is a slow burn romance, and there are a lot of things that I found unrealistic. But all in all, I found it very adorable. I do wish the author elaborated on the ending because it seems to be cut off short.
This is a slow burn romance, and there are a lot of things that I found unrealistic. But all in all, I found it very adorable. I do wish the author elaborated on the ending because it seems to be cut off short.
June 3, 2020
I know that the bodyguard and princess themes are nothing new to lesfic. There’s nothing wrong with a recycled idea if it’s executed well. Unfortunately, this was not. The writing and story didn’t flow. I sometimes found it abrupt. The character dialogue was overwritten, and I had a hard time understanding and connecting to the characters and their chemistry.
I found myself wanting to quit about 70% in but I was 70% in. I finished it but it didn’t win me over.
I found myself wanting to quit about 70% in but I was 70% in. I finished it but it didn’t win me over.
November 14, 2025
Allora per carità io non mi aspettavo il capolavoro della vita, eh. Mi aspettavo una trashata, di base, però nemmeno a fa’ così. I personaggi non hanno verve, sono a malapena tratteggiati, la romance è così veloce che manco fai in tempo a capire che succede (sembra a tutti gli effetti un instant love nonostante tecnicamente non lo sia) e non inizio con la questione politica perché sarebbe sparare sulla croce rossa.
Una vera delusione, al punto che non leggerò gli altri volumi della serie.
Una vera delusione, al punto che non leggerò gli altri volumi della serie.
May 10, 2020
I really wasn't expecting much from this book, and thought, let's give it a whirl, if I can't get into it I can't get into it. Oh how wrong I was. I was sucked into this story and completed it in only a couple of hours. I walked round the house reading it as I moved from a to b completing little chores. I enjoyed the chemistry of the two lead characters. The connection in their eyes, the lust they felt for each other aswell as their enjoyment of getting to know each other. I could have really done with it being longer but none the less I very much enjoyed it. A great Sunday morning read.
May 13, 2020
A story of a bodyguard falling in love with a princess soon to be queen. The story was not realistic, in my opinion. The bodyguard very soon falls in love with the princess, who barely know. When they endup going outside to gay bars and the security team found out, there was pretty much no consequences to that, just because the princess said so.
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June 1, 2020
2.5 stars. Princess Alexandra is due to marry and have children with a handsome royal. She wants nothing to do with her father's request and wishes she could just live her life, without the pressure of being the future Queen. Sergeant Erin Kennedy is sent to become the Royal Bodyguard after the Princess's last bodyguard broke their leg horseback riding with the Princess. Erin knows the first rule of being a bodyguard, never fall in love with your client. You are supposed to know them well, but never get your heart involved. Erin cannot stick to that rule as she spends more time with the Princess.
There are a few thing about this book I did not like. The romance between them seemed to progress rather quickly once the Princess told Erin she had fell in love with a woman before. It seemed a little odd how their relationship started. I understood how Erin well in love, but most of the book was not in Alexandra's point of view so I did not really understand how she felt and how it progressed so far. It seemed quick for it to happen and keep progressing. The drama in the novel also seemed to be resolved quickly as the book seemed a little short. It was a decent read, but I wish it was a little longer and had a little more tension and drama between the two main characters.
There are a few thing about this book I did not like. The romance between them seemed to progress rather quickly once the Princess told Erin she had fell in love with a woman before. It seemed a little odd how their relationship started. I understood how Erin well in love, but most of the book was not in Alexandra's point of view so I did not really understand how she felt and how it progressed so far. It seemed quick for it to happen and keep progressing. The drama in the novel also seemed to be resolved quickly as the book seemed a little short. It was a decent read, but I wish it was a little longer and had a little more tension and drama between the two main characters.
August 30, 2020
In the start I found this a little slow but I was all for it in the end. I liked the story and how in the end they were able to so a different type of Royal. I didn't like the fact it took so long for things to develop and how Erin seemed to forget all her training around Alexandra and i wish we could have been there for the talk with her parents it would have been nice to have heard what was said so we knew what sort off support they really had. The last few chapters were cute and i liked how it ended.
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September 8, 2020
LOVE IT 💕
4:54 AM and I just finished the book I couldn’t stop since I started reading, this is definitely a page-turner, the chemistry and the intimacy between the characters is just sublime the sweet and funny side they share is adorable. It’s a well written book and definitely a light reading. Definitely recommended it!
4:54 AM and I just finished the book I couldn’t stop since I started reading, this is definitely a page-turner, the chemistry and the intimacy between the characters is just sublime the sweet and funny side they share is adorable. It’s a well written book and definitely a light reading. Definitely recommended it!
May 16, 2021
Alexandra has been born into royalty and a life of hiding her true self . Erin breaks all the rules by falling for the person she is sworn to protect. I feel their heartbreak to have to live in the shadows and hide their love. Alex has to find her voice and brave the disappointment of her family if she plans to keep the love of her life. I am so glad there are more books with Erin and Alex. A ground breaking idea to have an openly gay royal.
June 16, 2020
REALLY fast read. Like, I read it in one evening. Had great potential, but being so short it left a lot to be desired. I enjoyed reading it, just wish it had more depth to it. But as it's quick, it's worth reading.
January 10, 2022
No doubt that the whole story falls under fantasy category more than a novel. Since first pages, I experienced the poor language, and didn’t like the author's leaps in some parts, such as the part of the princess's confrontation with her parents. I also felt astonished due to the reconciliation between the princess and her bodyguard.. it was a dull, deficient, sketchy and incomplete conversation . I would only give it 2 stars because of the happy ending.
September 12, 2020
Great read
This is a great read. Flows really easily. Good story line which does have a slight twist if your looking for a good lesbian story I would highly recommend this
This is a great read. Flows really easily. Good story line which does have a slight twist if your looking for a good lesbian story I would highly recommend this
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