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The Sinful King |
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Claire Contreras |
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March 5th 2020 |
| If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery.
Every summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water. Cottages that belonged to my family. Each of those summers, my parents sent me away – summer camp and later, boarding school. Anything to keep me away from the royals and their partying. I hadn’t been home in years, but when I finally come back for the summer, I see that not much has changed. Like all the summers I’d been gone, Prince Elias is back, but this time with an incognito security detail and no friends. This time, there is no partying, no noise, no crowds. No reason at all to even think he was there. I may be doing everything in my power to stay away from him, but there is no one in the world who can say no to the future King of France. |
| Ms. Contreras drew a wicked picture of a France that still had a king. I really liked the way “The Sinful King” played with how this country might look today if the monarchies still existed. I loved the plot in total and her writing was as good as I expected it to be from previous books I read. Some of the dialogues I read in this story are sure to make their way into lists with favorite book quotes – of that I am sure…. as they were pretty swoon-worthy.
And honestly, this is also why I do not fully understand my own reaction to the book. At first sight it really had everything I love – yet I was not able to really go with the flow … I tried very hard to love the characters and to feel with them but I could not bring myself to more than a LIKE no matter how hard I tried. …
Why? Well, I thought hard about that and the only thing I can think of is the beginning of the book. The book starts of in a way that I can not connect to. I could not understand the way the female lead (re)acted – I naturally understand the allure of mystery and attraction at first sight but I couldn’t follow these specific characters on their journey. And when the story really picked up a few years later after that opening chapter I struggled with one of the most basic facts that would not leave my mind – and when such a detail is burned in my brain I simply can not rid myself of it and it follows me questioning far to much of a plot. – With as little as possible spoiler I would describe my “problem” with … “As a future King of France you should be able to get any information that you really want at any given time” and I will leave it at that .
But these to issues are probably really only my personal problem and others will not mind them at all. As I said the plot itself is pretty good and interesting read that will keep the readers hooked.
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