Killer Queens - Rebecca Chance
Published: 01/08/13
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 500
Now we all know that Rebecca Chance is the master of the ‘bonkbuster’ and this book was no exception. Filled with incredibly well written sexy time, believable characters and an addictive storyline, this is one book you must read this summer.
We always wonder what goes on behind palace doors don’t we? Well we get the chance to be a fly on the wall and discover what really happens when the public are no longer watching…
Chloe is counting down the days until she can marry Prince Hugo, making her a princess and one day a queen. Everything seems to be pretty perfect in their little world until Hugo’s family begin to cause a whole manner of problems. First there is Hugo’s snotty sister Sophie who doesn’t think a commoner like Chloe should be marrying into the royal family, and then there’s is Hugo’s devilishly handsome cousin Toby who catches Chloe’s eye…
Lori, a retired athlete, has just accepted King Joachim’s hand in marriage. She will soon become the Queen of Herzoslovakia but she can’t help but question the speed with which she was engaged and wonders if the whirlwind romance was really a ‘romance’ after all.
Lastly, Belinda, Hugo’s mother who died tragically in a skiing accident when Hugo was a young boy may about to come back from the dead….. Did she really die and if not, why has she been hiding from her family for so long?
Three women, each dizzy with royal attention have to decide what they really want in life and whether the men that they are in love with are really the right ones for them….
As I commented above, this book was full of sex, sex and more sex. Rebecca Chance writes these scenes incredibly well and they fall into the plot seamlessly. Unlike other books you read where there is a focus on sex, it seems to be all they talk about, but Rebecca has such a strong and solid plot for the sex to fall into, that it all works incredibly well.
The three leading women of this novel are perfectly written and I loved Chloe the most. She was such a sweetheart and was at first daunted by the role she would one day have to take on, but over the course of the book grew and changed as a character to be an even stronger and powerful woman. Lori was equally strong and I loved the outcome of her story. I was desperate for her to see what was happening in front of her eyes. Belinda played a rather smaller role in the novel but a rather important one. She was the rescuer and I couldn’t help but fall in love with her commitment and desire to protect her family.
One thing about Rebecca’s novels is you can sometimes become overwhelmed by the number of characters and it can take you a little while to remember who they all are and what relation they are to each other. But, once you’ve got over that, the plot is so well crafted and everyone has an important role to play. Also, this is a bit of a lengthy book (500 pages) so make sure you have the time to dedicate to reading it in a short period of time. This isn’t the kind of book you could put down and come back to at a later date because you would have forgotten who everyone was!
In my humble opinion this is Rebecca’s best novel to date.
If you loved her already then you will be so excited to delve into this one but if you haven’t read any of Rebecca’s novels then this would be a very good place to start.
Just be warned, there’s lots of naughty and you may not look at a banana in the same way ever again…..
A clever, addictive, exciting peek into the world of royalty and what really goes on behind closed doors…
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 500
Now we all know that Rebecca Chance is the master of the ‘bonkbuster’ and this book was no exception. Filled with incredibly well written sexy time, believable characters and an addictive storyline, this is one book you must read this summer.
We always wonder what goes on behind palace doors don’t we? Well we get the chance to be a fly on the wall and discover what really happens when the public are no longer watching…
Chloe is counting down the days until she can marry Prince Hugo, making her a princess and one day a queen. Everything seems to be pretty perfect in their little world until Hugo’s family begin to cause a whole manner of problems. First there is Hugo’s snotty sister Sophie who doesn’t think a commoner like Chloe should be marrying into the royal family, and then there’s is Hugo’s devilishly handsome cousin Toby who catches Chloe’s eye…
Lori, a retired athlete, has just accepted King Joachim’s hand in marriage. She will soon become the Queen of Herzoslovakia but she can’t help but question the speed with which she was engaged and wonders if the whirlwind romance was really a ‘romance’ after all.
Lastly, Belinda, Hugo’s mother who died tragically in a skiing accident when Hugo was a young boy may about to come back from the dead….. Did she really die and if not, why has she been hiding from her family for so long?
Three women, each dizzy with royal attention have to decide what they really want in life and whether the men that they are in love with are really the right ones for them….
As I commented above, this book was full of sex, sex and more sex. Rebecca Chance writes these scenes incredibly well and they fall into the plot seamlessly. Unlike other books you read where there is a focus on sex, it seems to be all they talk about, but Rebecca has such a strong and solid plot for the sex to fall into, that it all works incredibly well.
The three leading women of this novel are perfectly written and I loved Chloe the most. She was such a sweetheart and was at first daunted by the role she would one day have to take on, but over the course of the book grew and changed as a character to be an even stronger and powerful woman. Lori was equally strong and I loved the outcome of her story. I was desperate for her to see what was happening in front of her eyes. Belinda played a rather smaller role in the novel but a rather important one. She was the rescuer and I couldn’t help but fall in love with her commitment and desire to protect her family.
One thing about Rebecca’s novels is you can sometimes become overwhelmed by the number of characters and it can take you a little while to remember who they all are and what relation they are to each other. But, once you’ve got over that, the plot is so well crafted and everyone has an important role to play. Also, this is a bit of a lengthy book (500 pages) so make sure you have the time to dedicate to reading it in a short period of time. This isn’t the kind of book you could put down and come back to at a later date because you would have forgotten who everyone was!
In my humble opinion this is Rebecca’s best novel to date.
If you loved her already then you will be so excited to delve into this one but if you haven’t read any of Rebecca’s novels then this would be a very good place to start.
Just be warned, there’s lots of naughty and you may not look at a banana in the same way ever again…..
A clever, addictive, exciting peek into the world of royalty and what really goes on behind closed doors…
Laura