The Heir and the Spare
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781440590108 |
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| Publisher: | Simon Pulse |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2016 |
| Pages: | 287 |
| Sales rank: | 173,172 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d) |
| Lexile: | 530L (what's this?) |
| Age Range: | 14 - 17 Years |
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The Heir And The Spare
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This was a great read with a feisty heroine, a sweet hero, and a wonderful cast of secondary characters. My only complaint is the typesetting. There was a severe lack of paragraph breaks, even when time had clearly passed. But, overall the story was fun and entertaining. I look forward to Ms. Albright's next book.
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I reaaly loved the story and charactors. It was a Prince Charming story. The main charactors had some trials but worked through them without them being self centered and disrespectable.
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Awesome read! Good from start to finish
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It started off great,as a semi-mystery (although, really, anyone could have guessed the gist of the 'secret') but went downhill once the so-called romance began. For a character as sensible and strong as Evie began to run hot-and-cold on poor Edmund got old quickly. As for Edmund, he began as an interesting one, fascinated by Evie, the quirky American who did not recognize him and his semi-scandalous past, but due to her immature behavior had to metamorphosize into the perfect boyfriend, always forgiving when the girl acts the brat.
The story is a little bittersweet if one imagines that this is set in the not too distant future (Edmund's father is King William). That would make the grandmother whom he recalls so fondly be Princess Diana, who did NOT die in a car crash in this timeline.
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Absolutely loved this one! Evie and Edmund were fantastic characters. I didn't want it to end! I can't wait for the sequel to come out!
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Loved it! Genuinely looking forward to the sequel!
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I truly enjoyed this book. Well written, good storyline and a very happy romance. A little girl's dream come true...to fall in love with a prince. Just loved it.
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Original review @ 125Pages.com
The Heir and the Spare is ridiculously cute. Smoking hot prince meets slightly awkward American Oxford student. Cue family drama, social drama and relationship drama. Now The Heir and the Spare is not groundbreaking but what it is, is a well written modern love story and as I have said before, sometimes that is exactly what you need. Evie is following a quest her English mother set up for her before she passed and Edmund is the spare prince who complicates her journey.
Emily Albright created a very real world within a world. The English monarchy is well know, and to be able to imprint a new family on it successfully is not an easy task. The pacing was just right, not too fast and not too slow. Every revelation made sense in the timeline and keep the plot moving forward. The plot was pretty transparent, but that is par for the course in romance books. The writing was rich and very descriptive. This was nice to see in a debut author. The characters are what made this book. The mains were nuanced and had depth and the sidekicks played their parts to perfection. They were funny, charming, bitchy and rude and all fit their roles.
I was impressed by Albright and was very pleased with how The Heir and the Spare came together. It was a cohesive story that had heart and offered a wide array of emotions. Evie and Edmund were a couple you wanted to see succeed and their path to happiness was fraught with drama like a crazy ex-girlfriend and a downright mean Duchess. Having the added addition of a family quest made this a step above a cookie-cutter romance and added needed intrigue. As mentioned before this is Emily Albright’s debut and it was very well done. I look forward to the next entry in Albright’s writing career.
Favorite lines – One day at a time, that’s how I had to do this. Right now, I just wanted him to hold me.
I received this book for free from The Fantastic Flying Book Club in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
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(This one I would list as NA instead of YA as the characters are in college.)
THE HEIR AND THE SPARE started off fairly well. I liked the idea that the main character, Evie, was following letters from her deceased mother to learn about her lineage. It was sweet. I liked the relationship between her and her father as well. I also liked that even though she is in a completely new place, at a new school, she still has some backbone and confidence. I also liked the initial interactions with Edmund and the friends she makes. However, it started going downhill for me before I got half-way through. There was too much drama, especially in regards to Evie as she reacts to events, pushing Edmond away and then pulling him in, then Edmond in holding on to a family friend for really no reason. There were other things that didn't quite work for me. The drama increases in the end as does the mature content. Add to that the constant swearing and it just wasn't the book for me. If it wouldn't have been for a tour it would have been a DNF. Two stars for the parts I did like.
Content: Profanity, casual & consistent swearing, innuendo (including gay), fade-to-black scene
Source: Received a copy from a tour host, which did not affect my review in any way.
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