Review:

Luke is a fun, slightly gruff, cinnamon roll of a character, who steals the show. His love interest, Ellie, (also known as Princess Elliana) has layers and some fun aspects to her personality as well, however, I struggled to get into the princess/commoner trope, probably since it's been done so often. It rarely seems to happen in real life, so the abundance of books with this trope seems a bit overdone.  

Loyally, Luke is filled with other such tropes, which are meant to be obvious, since gruff Luke has a thing about tropes... and romance, in general. However, I just couldn't appreciate the irony of them-- probably because I share some of Luke's sarcastic romantic sensibilities. Out of all the characters, I felt I related the most to Luke, which made his POV the most interesting and fun for me. 

I also think that I might have appreciated the storyline, tropes and all, if I had read the first two books (I guess this is a series? Even though it's not technically listed as one, as far as I can see). As it was, I didn't feel that I could fully appreciate the characters like I wanted to. Izzy and Penelope, Luke's sisters, appear in the story mainly in text-chat form, which was a fun element to the story and I think really adds to the interest. However, since I never got to "meet" them in books one and two, I felt like I was being introduced into a fun family dynamic that I really wanted to engage with, but since I didn't know who anyone was, I was just trying to hang on and figure out who the heck everyone was and how they were all related. 

If you like cute Hallmark movies and fun rom-coms, this might just be the book for you. I'm now thinking of going back and reading books 1 and 2 so I can reevaluate and, hopefully, fully appreciate the story.