It's Monday! What Are You Reading #633, July 24th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #632
Teaser Tuesday #640
WWW Wednesday #640
WOW #636
Will the Time Come #633
Third Sentence Thursday #623
Random Reads #609
First Lines Friday #636
Book Blogger Hop #302

Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 90
The Reward Challenge Update #618
Wheel of TBR #165
How Well I Stuck to It #470
Wrote that Review Update #467

Week 29 Reviews:
Dragonfall

The Last 8

The First 7

Cytonic

Evershore

A History of What Comes Next

Until the Last of Me

For the First Time, Again

A Touch of Malice

A Soul of Ash and Blood

The Forest of Stolen Girls

Sea of Stars

Darken the Stars

Nimona

Rogue Princess

The Taking

The Replaced

Space Station Down

Aftermath

Endgame

OK, so I got 27 posts in 7 days, and I've read some really great books, and I'm happy with that. And Dobby's surgery is today, so I'm hoping that goes smoothly! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever is left from my various TBR's before the month ends! 

Week 29 Review: Rogue Princess

From Goodreads:

A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers' Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella.

Princess Delia knows her duty: She must choose a prince to marry in order to secure an alliance and save her failing planet. Yet she secretly dreams of true love, and feels there must be a better way. Determined to chart her own course, she steals a spaceship to avoid the marriage, only to discover a handsome stowaway.

All Aidan wanted was to "borrow" a few palace trinkets to help him get off the planet. Okay, so maybe escaping on a royal ship wasn’t the smartest plan, but he never expected to be kidnapped by a runaway princess!

Sparks fly as this headstrong princess and clever thief battle wits, but everything changes when they inadvertently uncover a rebel conspiracy that could destroy their planet forever.

My Review:
This was such a great story! I didn't read the synopsis closely enough so I was surprised by the fac that it was a gender swapped Cinderella, but it was a pleasant surprise! I had such a great time listening to this book! 

This was a really thrilling read! I wanted to know more about this princess who was getting ready to pick her future spouse for the future of her planet, but wanted to come up with a different method then marriage to do so. And Aidan, overworked by his stepfamily, thieving to make a fund to be able to escape this planet. They were both fantastic to read about! 

I think I put the pieces together right around with the author wanted the reader to, because there was that whole scene with his stepfamily, and then he didn't remember it. Combined with everything that we'd been told, I guessed that he was an android. I loved being right! 

Once things started to go down, they went down quickly! There were some really tense moments, and some really emotional moments, and I really enjoyed seeing how things were resolved! It was so great to read! 

This was a fantastic and entertaining read and I had a really great time with it! 

Author: B.R. Myers 
Read: July 20th, 2023
Source: Library
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a 2023 Retelling Reading Challenge Book and a SAC 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: January 1st 2020

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars