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Royal Brides #3-5
Royal Brides Trilogy Bundle
Royal Brides by Lucy Monroe released on May 01, 2006 is available now for purchase.
572 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2006
31 people are currently reading
90 people want to read
About the author
Lucy Monroe
618 books1,583 followersI write spicy romance books that end in an HEA. Contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance…I write it all. The two things my books all have in common is lots of emotion and spice. Last year, I fell in love with a new subgenre: mafia romance. Since I write what I love to read, I started a new standalone series, Syndicate Rules where you’ll meet over the top alpha heroes in the Italian and Greek mafias as well as the Irish mob. There are arranged marriages, forced marriages, enemies to lovers, stalkers, forced proximity and lots of mafia intrigue. Morally gray is my new favorite color.
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I’ve been published a while and most of my 90+ books have hit the Nielson Bookscan bestseller list, a few ended up on the USA Today bestseller list and some even hit national bestseller lists in the UK and Australia. My books have been translated into numerous languages and are for sale in dozens of countries around the world. I’ve won awards and been published with most of the big houses in New York, but my greatest achievement is touching readers’ hearts. When I hear from a reader who got caught up in one of my books, I know I’m doing what I’m meant to do.
I love writing emotionally deep stories with snappy dialogue and solid plots. I’m more grateful than I’ll ever be able to express that so many readers have taken my stories into their hearts and put my books on their reread and keeper shelves.
Follow me on BookBub for alerts on my next release: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lucy-...
I’ve been published a while and most of my 90+ books have hit the Nielson Bookscan bestseller list, a few ended up on the USA Today bestseller list and some even hit national bestseller lists in the UK and Australia. My books have been translated into numerous languages and are for sale in dozens of countries around the world. I’ve won awards and been published with most of the big houses in New York, but my greatest achievement is touching readers’ hearts. When I hear from a reader who got caught up in one of my books, I know I’m doing what I’m meant to do.
I love writing emotionally deep stories with snappy dialogue and solid plots. I’m more grateful than I’ll ever be able to express that so many readers have taken my stories into their hearts and put my books on their reread and keeper shelves.
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December 30, 2013
3/5
This review is of the three in the trilogy as a single continuous plot, if you want to read my reviews of them as stand-alone novels check out my reviews on the individual goodreads listings.
Characterisation: The strongest suit in the trilogy is Lucy Monroe ability to elucidate feelings, emotions while spending relatively little time exploring back-stories. A talented ability to reveal what makes all the characters tick, and move along. No repetition, no over-the-top dragging out of facts. These characters may frustrate, generate the readers angst but at no time will you ever get bored of them in this trilogy.
Prose/Style: Another strength of this author. The writing style is simple, but not stupid or ignorant. A deliberate approach of the author has been to ensure these books are page turner material. The author clearly is comfortable with the language and get ideas across without gratuitous details. I appreciate this. I an author goes into excessive descriptive details it curtails the readers own room for imagination projection; thankfully this isn't a problem for Monroe series here.
Plot: The biggest issue I have in terms of criticism is the sparsity in conjoining plot. As stand alone books they are solid, if a trifle predictable in that HEA fashion. But there is not much in terms of conjoining plot beyond a) they focus on the love lives on the one family, this the same backing list of characters appear with comforting regularity and b) the series trilogy shows the build up to the rocky marriage issues faced by Crown Prince Claudio and his wife... but beyond that, nothing really stops these just being one-offs about different members of the one family. No villains appearing with an overarching subplot or anything.
The issues with the plot is what principally stops these books as a united trilogy getting more than a 3/5. It is fun, it is HEA, it is angsty - but I just wish there was a tad more imagination utilised. These excellent, loving, adorable characters deserve the same imaginative attention to detail in their respective plots as went into their birth.
If you like modern royal romance, HEA then you do really need to read these.
This review is of the three in the trilogy as a single continuous plot, if you want to read my reviews of them as stand-alone novels check out my reviews on the individual goodreads listings.
Characterisation: The strongest suit in the trilogy is Lucy Monroe ability to elucidate feelings, emotions while spending relatively little time exploring back-stories. A talented ability to reveal what makes all the characters tick, and move along. No repetition, no over-the-top dragging out of facts. These characters may frustrate, generate the readers angst but at no time will you ever get bored of them in this trilogy.
Prose/Style: Another strength of this author. The writing style is simple, but not stupid or ignorant. A deliberate approach of the author has been to ensure these books are page turner material. The author clearly is comfortable with the language and get ideas across without gratuitous details. I appreciate this. I an author goes into excessive descriptive details it curtails the readers own room for imagination projection; thankfully this isn't a problem for Monroe series here.
Plot: The biggest issue I have in terms of criticism is the sparsity in conjoining plot. As stand alone books they are solid, if a trifle predictable in that HEA fashion. But there is not much in terms of conjoining plot beyond a) they focus on the love lives on the one family, this the same backing list of characters appear with comforting regularity and b) the series trilogy shows the build up to the rocky marriage issues faced by Crown Prince Claudio and his wife... but beyond that, nothing really stops these just being one-offs about different members of the one family. No villains appearing with an overarching subplot or anything.
The issues with the plot is what principally stops these books as a united trilogy getting more than a 3/5. It is fun, it is HEA, it is angsty - but I just wish there was a tad more imagination utilised. These excellent, loving, adorable characters deserve the same imaginative attention to detail in their respective plots as went into their birth.
If you like modern royal romance, HEA then you do really need to read these.
May 24, 2020
Labai nuobodi, leksta, banali. Laiko gaisimas. Skaiciau kas trecia puslapi, nuobodus dialogai ir pacios istorijos nuobodzios.
December 26, 2009
เป็นหนังสือรวมสามเรื่องในชุดเจ้าชาย เล่มนี้ซื้อมาสะสม เพราะอ่านไปทั้งสามเรื่องแล้ว สองเรื่องแรก อ่าน เป็น ebook เรื่องที่สาม มีฉบับแปลไทยด้วย ebook ด้วย
เรื่องแรกเฉยๆ เรื่องที่สองสนุกดี แต่เรื่องที่สามชอบมาก Scorsolini Marriage Bargain เป็นเรื่องที่ชอบที่สุดของ Lucy Monroe ที่ได้อ่าน แต่หนังสือหมดไม่มีขายนานแล้ว เพิ่งพิมพ์ใหม่เป็นรวมเล่มอันนี้ออกมาก็เลยซื้อเก็บทันทีค่ะ
เมื่อวานอ่านซ้ำไปอีกรอบ เจ้าชายคลอดีโอ กับเทเรส ทำให้เสียน้ำตาด้วยความซาบซึ้งซะตาแดงเลย แต่อ่านกี่ทีก็ยังชอบอยู่ดีค่ะ
เรื่องแรกเฉยๆ เรื่องที่สองสนุกดี แต่เรื่องที่สามชอบมาก Scorsolini Marriage Bargain เป็นเรื่องที่ชอบที่สุดของ Lucy Monroe ที่ได้อ่าน แต่หนังสือหมดไม่มีขายนานแล้ว เพิ่งพิมพ์ใหม่เป็นรวมเล่มอันนี้ออกมาก็เลยซื้อเก็บทันทีค่ะ
เมื่อวานอ่านซ้ำไปอีกรอบ เจ้าชายคลอดีโอ กับเทเรส ทำให้เสียน้ำตาด้วยความซาบซึ้งซะตาแดงเลย แต่อ่านกี่ทีก็ยังชอบอยู่ดีค่ะ
October 7, 2020
This is actually one of my favorite series from this romance subgenre. I loved how all the women had their own insecurities, but so did the men. Lucy Monroe is one of my favorite authors, and I was not disappointed with this trilogy.
June 22, 2017
I don't remember this at all.... must have been the same as every other Harlequin book I've read :D
April 1, 2014
A trilogy featuring women with such low self-esteem that they d o not believe they deserve to be loved.
January 28, 2018
Wow
Absolutely could not put this romance trilogy down. The princes are charismatic and the heroines strong enough to handle them.
Absolutely could not put this romance trilogy down. The princes are charismatic and the heroines strong enough to handle them.
May 30, 2023
Great Read!
This trilogy is a great read! I read them years ago when they first came out and read them twice more since then! Love Lucy Monroe books!
This trilogy is a great read! I read them years ago when they first came out and read them twice more since then! Love Lucy Monroe books!
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