Royals by Rachel Hawkins *arc #bookreview

Title: Royals
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published Date: May 1st, 2018
Genre: Contemporary, YA
Page Count: 256
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
Meet Daisy Winters. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part-time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her to join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond.

While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal, the prince’s roguish younger brother kicks up scandal wherever he goes and tries his best to take Daisy along for the ride. The crown–and the intriguing Miles–might be trying to make Daisy into a lady . . . but Daisy may just rewrite the royal rulebook to suit herself.

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 My Review:

Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

Usually, I don't like contemporary books, but for some reason, I love books like this. They are truly my guilty pleasure and I always need more of them in my life. Daisy winters sister is marrying a Scottish prince, thus the whole family is being thrown into royal chaos in preparation for the big day. For Daisy, this means spending her summer in Scotland following her sister around and trying to stay out of the way. Sounds easy, except Daisy tends to not do things the way her sisters wants, add in paparazzi, eligible young men, and an already not so great start to being in the tabloids, she has a very long summer ahead of her. 

Overall I really liked/enjoyed this book. I've loved Hawkins Sexy History (isn't that what she calls it?) that she does on twitter, on Tuesdays and as soon as I found out she was writing a ya book dealing with royalty I knew I had to read it. 
We've had several books out recently that deal with a sibling marrying into royalty (Prince In Disguise), while these both had some similarities I loved both of them and they both managed to deal with what was happening in different ways. I liked Royals a little bit more, because of the love/hate relationship in this was more enjoyable to read. Daisy and Miles are forced together after some things happen with Daisy that need to be changed. The things are is that Miles things Daisy is at fault and is just in this whole thing for the fame and not for the right reasons. While this opinion does change as they get to know each other, the snarky banter continues throughout the whole book. Which for me made it far more enjoyable and really made the friendship feel more real. What can I say I love snarky friendships. 
I really loved the sister relationship in this one and how it wasn't just all about the sister for a change, instead it was more of what Daisy was doing during her time in Scotland and how she was dealing with things. I also loved how the whole family was involved and even though things were complicated at times, they were always truly there for each other and kept up the inside jokes, etc. that made them who they are.
I found this book extremely enjoyable and I can't wait to go back and read Hawkins previous work!