These Royals will ruin you.
Easton Royal has it all: looks, money, intelligence. His goal in life is to have as much fun as possible. He never thinks about the consequences because he doesn’t have to.
Until Hartley Wright appears, shaking up his easy life. She’s the one girl who’s said no, despite being attracted to him. Easton can’t figure her out and that makes her all the more irresistible.
Hartley doesn’t want him. She says he needs to grow up.
She might be right.
Rivals. Rules. Regrets. For the first time in Easton’s life, wearing a Royal crown isn’t enough. He’s about to learn that the higher you start, the harder you fall.
Easton Royal has it all: looks, money, intelligence. His goal in life is to have as much fun as possible. He never thinks about the consequences because he doesn’t have to.
Until Hartley Wright appears, shaking up his easy life. She’s the one girl who’s said no, despite being attracted to him. Easton can’t figure her out and that makes her all the more irresistible.
Hartley doesn’t want him. She says he needs to grow up.
She might be right.
Rivals. Rules. Regrets. For the first time in Easton’s life, wearing a Royal crown isn’t enough. He’s about to learn that the higher you start, the harder you fall.
Title: Falen Heir (The Royals #4)
Author: Erin Watt
Publisher: Berkely
Original Publication Date: 8/28/2017
Expected Publication Date: 12/12/2023
Review:
I want to thank NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an egalley of this book to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I'm going to start by saying I had very high expectations for this book, Easton is my favorite character in this series and I saw so much promise from him in the first three books. When I saw this was about him, I was truly excited, I could not wait to start and see him develop into a character I liked even more. This book had the potential to ignite even more in this series and really make it shine. And I say potential with a heavy heart because that's all there was.
Let's start with the plot. It's basically Easton trying to come to terms with himself. Of course it would be because Easton has a lot of ghosts he needs to face. But other than the introduction of a few new characters, there really was no plot. The pot was story after story of Easton doing the wrong thing, every single time, and never ever learning from it. There was zero arc to this plot. Just a straight line from A to B. I had to push through to finish it.
Easton's story deserved to be told. But this book did not show me the Easton I came to know and love in the first three books. This Easton was someone totally different. And I expected the plot to follow him from this sort of jerk that we have grown to know and love to a bit more of an enlightened character who grows and changes. Nope, he was the same from the beginning through the end of the book. Thinking he would change but then continuously falling back to what he was. And his relationship with Ella? Right back to book 1 with him just being an ass most of the time, saying the wrong thing, and Ella constantly taking it. What happened to the strong character she was built as through the first three books?
There were so many issues with this book, What happened to the twins? They were great in the first three books, though we didn't get to know them all that well. But the glimpses were good and their relationship with Lauren was something I would have liked to see the story of. And Lauren? UGH. She went from this sweet girl to a controlling demon. Why? Then there is Hartley, the new girl, though previous books alluded to Easton being interested in someone. But she was never part of anything prior as she's been away for three years. So who did Watt really have in mind when that tidbit was introduced? I don't think Hartley was it. Felicity? That whole part of the plot was dumb!
Overall, I just can't say I am happy with this installment. It was a wasted opportunity to take a character and make him shine. Instead, we just see him as a drunk, addiction prone jerk. Did the cliffhanger make me want to read the next book? I'm going to say probably because I would like to know if Watt can redeem the damage done with this book. But overall, if I'm going to tell someone to read this series, I would tell them to stop at the third book.
A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager.
Elle currently writes for various publishers. She loves strong heroines and sexy alpha heroes, and just enough heat and danger to keep things interesting!
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