Title: Of Princes and Promises (Rosetta Academy Book 2)
Author: Sandhya Menon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date: June 8, 2021
Language: English
File size: 4267 KB
Print length: 317 pages
SYNOPSIS
Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her crown may be slightly askew after her ex-boyfriend, Alaric, cheated on her, but she’s a LaValle. She’ll find a way to march right back in there, her hands clutching the strings to the whole puppet show. This time, she’s going to be untouchable.
Rahul Chopra knows that moment he shared with Caterina LaValle at the winter formal meant something. Surely she feels it, too. He’s a little uncertain how someone like him (socially inept to a point way past “adorkable”) could fit into her world, but he’s loved Caterina for years. He knows they’ll find a way.
When Caterina finds out Alaric is taking a supermodel to the upcoming gala, she knows she cannot arrive without the perfect date. But the thought of taking another superficial St. R’s boy exhausts her. The solution? Sweet-but-clueless Rahul Chopra and a mysterious pot of hair gel with the power to alter the wearer into whatever his heart desires.
When Rahul tries it, he transforms instantly into RC—debonair, handsome, and charming. But transformation comes with a price: As Rahul enjoys his new social standing, the line between his two personas begins to blur. Will he give up everything, including Caterina, to remain RC? Or will this unlikely pair find their way back to each other?
Of Princes and Promises is a very interesting retelling of The prince frog.
It has a bit of magic that I honestly didn't expect.
We met Caterina and Rahul in the previous book of this series, we knew that she is a rich heiress who enjoys her social life and everything that this world of appearances represents, or so we thought.
In this story we meet again with a Caterina that although it seems that the breakup with her ex-boyfriend Alaric could not care less, when she learns that he will attend with a famous model to one of the big social events that the two usually attend, Caterina is determined to let Alaric and the rest of society know that their breakup has not affected her and that she has turned over a move on. It is then that she decides to make a proposal to Rahul to be his companion in that famous dance, of course before she’s planning to transform and turn him into a person totally different from what he is.
Rahul has been in love with Caterina since that dance last winter when he decided to ask her to dance when he saw how sad she was after breaking with Alaric, and does not think twice to accept Caterina's proposal.
But Rahul's change doesn't just start with the exterior, his new personality will quickly take over him to the point that Caterina begins to have serious doubts and regrets about being the one to bring it all about.
I love that Caterina is not the girl we all think we know and that it is precisely Rahul who with the closeness they are having, is discovering her to us, and at the same time we would see how this Frog would become a Prince RC.
There is much I could say but I risk falling into spoilers, if I have not already, just say that the story is full of friendship, complicity, love and a little magic, I wasn’t expected the latter, specifically in the way it occurs.
Thank you so much to the author, Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC provided in exchange of my honest review.
Until the next one :)
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Sandhya Menon is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels with lots of kissing, girl power, and swoony boys. Her books have been featured in many cool places, including on The Today Show, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, NPR, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, and Buzzfeed. Two of her books have won the Colorado Book Award, and her Dimpleverse series was turned into a hit TV show with Netflix India. A full-time dog servant, Sandhya makes her home in the foggy mountains of Colorado. With a glass of wine at her elbow, she also pens adult romances under the name Lily Menon.
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