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Title: Regally Binding
Author: Rebecca Chase
Genre: Romance
Rating: ★★★★
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ (Explicit Open Door)
Liss is an average
twenty-something woman with a regular job working in a bar...until the day she
learns during a televised broadcast that her grandma had an affair with the
king decades ago and she might be his granddaughter.
The dying king's announcement
throws Liss into a world of paparazzi, royal parties, and death threats. But it
also gives her hope that she could finally be part of a family, something she's
wanted her whole life and especially after her mum died when Liss was nineteen.
Now she has to decide if she's ready to give up her privacy, safety, and
independence to be a princess.
To protect Liss in all this
danger and stress is her swoonworthy new bodyguard, Bear. He’s cheeky, grumpy,
and has secret tattoos beneath his suits. He’s also stubborn and bossy and
clashes with Liss constantly. But Bear has a soft side too. He sits with Liss
when she sleeps to make sure she doesn’t have nightmares and buys her stunning
ballgowns to make her happy.
It's not long before all the
bickering and tension morphs into sizzling hot chemistry. Both Liss and Bear
know that giving into their attraction is a terrible idea...but it's getting
harder and harder to fight their feelings for each other.
Will Bear keep Liss alive
long enough for her to decide her future? And what if the one person keeping
her safe is the same person she can’t live without?
Regally Binding is the latest romance novel from author
Rebecca Chase, and the first in her new Closest Protection series. Fans
of forbidden love, enemies to lovers, forced proximity and a good bodyguard
romance, this is the book for you! Add in a found family, a fantastic ‘fuck it’
moment, a protective swoon-worthy ‘touch her and you die’ MMC and lots of
banter and you have Regally Binding, a new spicy British romance, perfect for
fans of The Princess Diaries and The Bodyguard.
The narrative is very well paced and I easily read the
majority of the book in a single sitting. The plot of this book is very well
crafted and more complex than your average romance, with Liss not only having
to navigate suddenly becoming part of the royal family and her evolving
relationship with her bodyguard but also becoming victim to death threats.
There’s a mystery element with them trying to work out the identity of the
person harassing Liss and also navigating concerns about the health of the king.
Rebecca Chase found the perfect balance between these aspects to the plot and
the romance, making for a really compelling story. I also loved how very British
the story was!
Liss was an excellent protagonist who I really wanted to be
friends with! I loved how normal she was, which made the plot of her suddenly being
thrust into the royal family and the limelight even more compelling. This book
explores grief through Liss having lost her mother – who was a single parent –
to cancer. There is also fantastic anxiety and panic attacks representation
through Liss and this was one of my favourite things about the book. As a
someone who has had both for 15+ years, this representation felt really
authentic so it was really powerful.
Bear was a swoon-worthy MMC to say the least. I very quickly
fell head over heels in love with him but can you blame me? I particularly
loved that he was such a complex character rather than just being the sexy love
interest with surface-level characterisation you can often see in romance
books, particularly spicy ones. Bear has a really great dynamic with Strike and
the exploration of Bear’s backstory and how he found a family with Strike and
his parents was really emotive.
Liss and Bear were a brilliant match and the banter between
the two of them had me giggling throughout. Their romance builds at a good
pace, with lots of sexual tension before the much-anticipated ‘fuck it’ moment.
Their chemistry was electric and the spicy scenes were some of the best I’d
read in a long while. Dirty talk fans, you’ll eat this up!
You will love Regally Binding if you fancy a read which is
the perfect combo of sweet and spicy, especially for those who loved The Princess
Diaries as a teenager but now fancy something with (A LOT) more spice!
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