Name: Léa's review of Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn
Item: Undercover Princess
Rating: 4
Author: Léa

Connie Glynn

Loved The Princess Diaries, Once Upon a Time and Girl Online? Then you'll love Undercover Princess! 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... From YouTube personality Connie Glynn, AKA Nooderella, comes her debut novel, the first in The Rosewood Chronicles series. The perfect book for teenage girls, join Lottie and Ellie at the mystical and magical Rosewood Hall.

Undercover Princess

Delorris Danielle Hopkins 

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 . . .

Léa

Alors, ce fut une très bonne surprise ! C'est un livre léger, classifié jeunesse mais qui à mon sens et quand même moins jeunesse qu'un livre comme Les Gardiens des Cités Perdues. 
Pour sa catégorie et la bonne surprise que ce livre fût j'ai mis 4/5.

do you ever read a book that isn’t the best book in the world but also isn’t bad and you’re just enjoying the experience? this is this book. 

Kerri McDonald

This was an incredible to a light fantasy series! I loved the world of Rosewood Hall and how it has a slightly magical feel to it. I also loved Lottie and Ellie, two compelling and captivating main characters. I can’t wait to see how their relationship develops!

Wynne Aretae

a bit predictable and lower level reading that i'm used to, but still quite good.

Lottie oliver

Hey Guys,

It's me again. So this is from a buddy read with the bestest. Check her out on Instagram. We have recently started our bookstagram together so its still within is early stages. All links are below to the Katspurl's Instagram and also The Coverless. The Coverless is our joint bookstagram that we will be using to promote hard back books. Not just will we be doing some great photos but we will also be reviewing the hard back covers with out their jackets. Keep an eye out for it.

As it was our second buddy read we knew what we were doing and what to expect. I definitely had a lot more fun this time around. As we were reading almost the same areas. And its also safe to say that we had more or less the same thoughts on the book as well.

So I'll give you a quick synopsis: When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life.

Lottie is thrust into the real world of royalty - a world filled with secrets, intrigue and betrayal. She must do everything she can to help Ellie keep her secret, but with school, the looming Maradovian ball and the mysterious new boy Jamie, she'll soon discover that reality doesn't always have the happily ever after you'd expect...

So, on with this review. It started okay. Character building is always a slow process if you have to get everyone together in a new place. But surely once you are there, it shouldn't be a problem. Right? Wrong. The idea was a really good one, and kinda reminded me of Princess Diaries being undercover and learning to become a princess but it was so simple. Its age group was young and I knew this. I expected nothing complicated and a nice easy read. It was an easy read. But it was to simple. To predictable.

There were all the different niches. I know kids have to learn about these however there are other ways to do this. It would also be nice to see something less stereotypical. Unfortunately after a while it went from being an easy read to being boring. Katspurl and I had already figured out who the main culprit was and also what was going to happen. This was before we were anywhere near finishing.

I felt very disappointed as it sounded very interesting and fun. Instead, we get something that I feel needed a lot of work and some more fluff. Though please don't get me wrong there was a lot of description used which helped to picture the people and areas. But again there was a lot of description.

Some things were left unresolved as well which I thought, Connie Glynn could be doing a couple of things such as, using that for the next book or she is going to leave that unfinished. I'm not going to lie I will probably start the next one to see if its better. This book may be an exception and the next will be better but we will have to wait and see.

So for the good points, I like the sound of where the story could go and also the description. If it also helps, I like the cover art. So for the good points I will give the book 2 stars.

Kate

4.5* Harry Potter meets Cinderella, meets The Princess Diaries, meets The Princess Protection Programme (yes, that fab and totally underrated Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez movie) in Connie Glynn's wonderful debut novel, Undercover Princess. I'm painfully aware of how many 'meets etc.' I've just used but I promise they will *hopefully* make sense after you've read the book, which, of course, you definitely should do. Yet, even with these comparisons (of some of my favourite films, I should add), Undercover Princess is undoubtedly it's own unique story, full of imagination and wonder.

Check out my full review for Undercover Princess here... http://girlreading.co.uk/bookreviews/...

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