Wednesday, May 25, 2016

ARC Review of Royal Prick (A Stepbrother Romance) #2 by J.L. Beck


OMG this is sooo raw and intense. It will grip you tight and hold you in its emotional embrace until the very end. I had a very serious love/hate/ love relationship with this book. It is a serious sexy stepbrother story that will grab your heart, your body and leave you breathless.
The story follows Royal and Noelle. We meet Royal Black and see that he is a very angry young man who has this chip on his shoulder based on how his life turned out--His father left him and his mother, and turned around and married another woman, he has these “anger” outbursts that caused him problems in school and in life.  Due to his behavior problems, his mother sent him to live with his father, stepmother and stepsister Noelle. Oh that was something Royal almost went nuclear over. Royal feels betrayed by mother for sending him to live with his father and his evil stepmother and stepsister. There is so much anger and hatred in him for being sent and he is ready to blow. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of Royal except that he was a total jerk –one that I was prepared to hate but he started to win me over.  Now to Noelle-ahh what an innocent in all this mess.  
We meet Noelle, who is so sweet, innocent and it NOTHING like her nasty mother; She is actually happy to meet her stepbrother. She thinks they can be a “family” and only want to try to win over Royal, she sees the “lost boy” in him- she tries so hard to be his friend, to be a family to him but Royal isn’t having it. Soon Noelle comes to realize that Royal is nothing but a big jerk –but the more time they spend together, the more friction and the more chemistry builds. It’s forbidden, its hot and its lustful. The more we get to read about Noelle, we come to see she was bullied by her mother, she allowed herself to be walked over, to be bullied but no more. The more she is around Royal, she starts allowing herself to speak her mind. She speaks up and out- she comes to realize that she knows what she wants and is going to let herself have.
Royal comes to realize that Noelle isn’t the bad person he thought and he starts to show his good side to her. Something he rarely does ever. We see Royal the good guy and that makes this an even hotter read. Not to stop the train wreck that is coming because there is a villainess in this read and OMG was I crying in this book. I wanted to throw my kindle a few times because of this person who has no soul and Ms. Beck had me literally screaming several times due to this person –this person is evil and Royal is so right to hate them. There is so much angst and emotions running throughout this story –passions, hate, anger, love, - they all run throughout this story.  I enjoyed watching the forbidden step brother theme weave in this story. Royal and Noelle will make you beg for their interactions and their pain , passions, anger and love kept me hanging on until the very end. The only little thing I wish I could have seen was some sort of fitting end for the villain in this piece. A guillotine would have been too easy for this person. I would have liked to found how what ever happened to this person –but overall this is a killer forbidden romance read and I highly recommend this book.   


My rating: 4.9 stars *****

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