Steel Princess by Rina Kent
Series: Royal Elite #2
Publication date: December 10th, 2019
Pages: 346
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Synopsis:
The princess isn't supposed to dethrone the king.
Elsa
He said he'll destroy me, and he did.
I might have lost the battle, but the war is far from over.
They say it starts with one move to dethrone the king.
No one mentioned he'll yank me with him on the way down.
Aiden
If Steel's little princess wants a war, then war it is.
There's only one rule: my rules or none at all.
By all means, show me what you got, sweetheart.
Steel Princess is book two of Royal Elite series and should be read after Deviant King. This is a dark high school bully romance, mature new adult, and contains dubious situations that some readers might find offensive.
This book is part of a trilogy and is NOT standalone.
The entire trilogy is available.
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Review:
I will admit, I jumped straight into this second book after finishing the second. I was desperate to find out what happened and try to unravel the mysteries surrounding Elsa. I am still perplexed even after finishing the last book. I will never understand the aristocratic world that Rina Kent created within her series. It isn't that I don't believe it to be as chaotic and cutthroat as she depicts, it's the fact that it is so possible that it is a bit sickening. Rich people do some odd things in the pursuit of remaining rich. All these people in this book are ruled by power and prestige to the point where they will become people of their parents' creation without even realizing it. They will look down their noses and be determined to destroy people just by the sound of their surnames alone. It is so utterly real to how I would see most of the upper-crust doing that I can't even tear it apart as being a fantasy world the author went a bit far in creating.
This next installment delves deeper into Elsa's past as she slowly starts to allow herself to lean on Aiden. The push and pull is still there and they keep faltering in their movements together because they always seem to want the upper-hand. That can really be tied back to the entire reason they are linked where their families were in constant competition to best each other. I found myself wanting to shake the both of them. If Aiden and Elsa would just learn to melt a little bit more together instead of wanting to be the sharper, quicker, and the one with all the power, maybe they'd have already been chugging along the Happiness Express.
I did like seeing a little more growth from Aiden. He is a textbook psychopath but seeing him kinda learn to feel a bit with Elsa makes me second guess my initial assessment of the man. Psychopaths do not understand empathy nor do they want to. Aiden, while seeming completely comfortable in his skin, would burn the world down around them to protect Elsa. I don't know if a true psychopath would be capable of that.
The twists and turns that Kent delivered in this second book has made me even hungrier to understand the full picture. There are still some stones left unturned and still some obstacles for our duo to overcome. I would have liked a little more forward movement with the characters. It feels like they were knocked back and this book was all about them trying to build their way back to where they got to in the first book together. I have faith they'll find a way through it if they learn to fully trust each other to have each other's back, but they haven't done so well so far. I expect nothing but more of a rollercoaster from our quick witted author.
The twists and turns that Kent delivered in this second book has made me even hungrier to understand the full picture. There are still some stones left unturned and still some obstacles for our duo to overcome. I would have liked a little more forward movement with the characters. It feels like they were knocked back and this book was all about them trying to build their way back to where they got to in the first book together. I have faith they'll find a way through it if they learn to fully trust each other to have each other's back, but they haven't done so well so far. I expect nothing but more of a rollercoaster from our quick witted author.