Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This wasn't to my taste, but particularly infuriating was that this isn't even a full book. Nothing gets resolved at the ending--not the essential problems that keep the characters apart, not any of the hints that there's some kind of non-romance plot. It's like someone ripped a real book along the spine and sold the first chunk. Arg, the author wastes so much time on mentioning the king's other kids and in one case it's a complete waste, every sentence spent past the first and some kind of "not going there" (that was needed and never included!!) could have been cut. The editor shares blame that this book has so much low-calorie filler. Before the ending of the book I was just a bit annoyed that the main characters were hurtfully lying to reach other. The book isn't to my taste: I saw "gender-flipped royal guard plus stubborn royal" and I should have read more before clicking buy. Not to my taste: the female protagonist constantly puts herself down; her male family are douches to her, and she never gives them the dressing-down they deserve. She's insecure the entire time. Not to my taste: the prince is from a modern nation and IMO real monarchy in this day and age is just pretty authoritarianism. Nor does he ever appear to think of anything solid beyond himself... Like, does he have plans to help people during hurricanes or regrets about not being able to enact some training program for his subjects? Nah. The first-person viewpoint makes it hard for these 20-something characters to seem anything but shallow... And probably they just are shallow, without anything to care about beyond themselves. It's hard for me to care about them, though. The sex is hot, but a lot of times the consent is slightly iffy, which also does not endear the male protagonist to me.