Author: Conniey Glynn
Publication Date: October 26th 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books UK
Part of a Series?: Yes, Book 1 of the Rosewood Chronicles
I Got A Copy Through: Penguin India (THANK YOU!)
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Blurb Description: Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who longs to be a princess, attending Rosewood Hall on a scholarship.
Ellie Wolf is a princess who longs to be ordinary, attending Rosewood Hall to avoid her royal duties in the kingdom of Maradova.
When fate puts the two fourteen-year-olds in the same dorm, it seems like a natural solution to swap identities: after all, everyone mistakenly believes Lottie to be the princess anyway.
But someone's on to their secret, and at Rosewood nothing is ever as it seems...
Actual Rating 2.5 Stars.
Summarizing this book in one line, THIS BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
When I was twelve, I discovered the Princess Diaries books for the first time and all I did since them
was binge all ten of them and then READ THEM ALL OVER AGAIN. They were one of
the first books that cemented my eternal love for young adult literature and the
minute I read the description of Undercover
Princess, I EXPECTED SOMETHING EXACTLY LIKE THE PRINCESS DIARIES, and I honestly did not get it.
MY THOUGHTS:
1.
For starters, this book was so immature - SO SO
IMMATURE. I felt nothing for any of the characters, the spoiled princess, the
girl who WANTED to be a princess so bad, their friends or the mystery –
NOTHING.
2.
I think I didn’t care because DESPITE the
fact that this book had a BRILLIANT PLOT and a storyline that COULD HAVE BEEN
GREAT, the writing fell flat and everything was awkward and immature.
Basically, this book DID NOT LIVE UP TO ITS OWN POTENTIAL, AND THAT’S THE WORST
KIND OF SAD.
3.
There was so much that I could have fangirled
over – an elite British prep school, an ACTUALL castle with a real PRINCESS, a
bodyguard with a soft side, balls and everything else but this book DIDN’T USE
ALL OF IT. Instead, this book was filled with vaguely threatening notes and a
whiny “rebel” princess.
4.
ALSO, HOW
IS A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD ALLOWED TO SIGN AWAY HER LIFE TO A ROYAL FAMILY WITH NO
LEGAL REPRESENTATION/ ADULTS ON HER SIDE LIKE HER LEGAL GUARDIANS? It made
absolutely no sense that a minor was allowed to sign a binding legal contract
for LIFE.
5.
LET’S ALSO PLEASE TALK ABOUT HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS
COVER IS, BECAUSE IT IS. It’s a gorgeous water-coloured in princess head and I
LOVE IT. Plus, my ARC cover has a secret embossing if you tilt it in the
right way and it’s kind of beautiful.
6.
The Princess’s name is: Eleanor Wolfson. Her
Undercover Name: Ellie Wolf. Name of person everyone assumes is the princess:
Lottie Pumpkin. WHAT EVEN. WHAT USE
IS BEING UNDERCOVER IF YOUR NAME IS GOING TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOUR REAL
NAME? HOW DID PEOPLE EVEN ASSUME
THAT SHE WASN’T THE PRINCESS? It’s
like Supergirl taking her glasses off makes her a completely unrecognizable.
Spoiler: IT DOESN’T.
7.
Honestly, I’m undecided about whether I’m going
to be reading the second book. The
Princess Diaries definitely improved along the way, and maybe The Rosewood Chronicles will too? I
guess I’ll have to decide when the time comes.
A book that didn’t live up to its own potential. 2.5 Stars.
Connie Glynn is an English author and YouTuber. Her debut novel Undercover Princess,the first in The Rosewood Chronicles, was published in 2017.
Glynn is also known for her YouTube videos on the channel Noodlerella. She provided the voice for the character Moxie Dewdrop in the UK cinema version of Dreamworks' Trolls.
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