Royal Rebel

By: Jenny Frame

Narrated by: Nicola Victoria Vincent

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's Summary

Princess Rozala of Denbourg enjoys her reputation as a wild child, especially when it annoys her father, the king. When Rosa's latest girlfriend brings scandal to the palace doors, her father sends her to Britain, in the hopes that time with her cousin Queen George and the new Queen Consort will finally make her face her responsibilities.

After overcoming personal demons and quitting the high-stakes world of finance, Lennox King is content with keeping her life simple. As the new director of a hospice charity, she uses a strict business approach to help the charity grow and prosper.

When Rosa comes to work at the charity under orders from the Queen Consort, babysitting a spoiled princess is definitely not on Lennox's agenda. But when passion flares between them, will Lennox's past stop their relationship in its tracks, or will a twist of fate bring a new future that neither was expecting?

©2017 Jenny Frame (P)2017 Bold Strokes Books Inc

It was good but...

I love Jenny Frame! Her books are fun to read and keep you interested. This one, in my opinion, wasn't as good as the first. SPOILER I didn't know it was going to be this weird mother/daughter-ish relationship that some lesbians seem to fall into. I think it's unhealthy and wasn't prepared to read about it. Other than that, it was ok. Nicola Victoria Vincent knocked it out of the park again. Love her narrations. Overall, I would recommend this book because it also includes the first book’s characters and it was interesting to hear about their lives also.

Great Audio.

I loved Royal Rebel. I re-listened to Royal Romance to remind my self where we were. Excellent follow up story. Great new characters. Excellent narration again by Nicola Victoria Vincent.

Very heteronormative lesbian fiction.

It reads like a normal romance novel with the man's personal pronoun changed to she and her. They do not even get renamed with a feminine name. The damsel wears cute little outfits while he always wears suits or masculine clothes. The damsel princess ogled the dom for their musculature and the description could be ripped straight from any male romance lead. Now I know plenty of butch lesbians. This did NOT feel like that. I feel safe in saying they do not wear 'aftershave'. It was after the second occurrence of this that I stopped listening. I do not take this lightly. I have several hundred audible books in my library and have stopped listening to 3. (Pacific Vortex and something else) I loved the first book. It was like listening to an episode of Crown. This book lacks that completely. That book also was tres hetro. the use of an inteliflesh 'strap on' was annoyingly straight. Yes, I know lesbians who use them but they do not eagerly suck them to felate their girlfriend. This is not a lesbian thing. I was waiting to see how this book dealt with sex scenes but the repeated aftershave references killed it. The performer also reads spoken text well but the descriptive passages were too fast and flat like a robot or a student in my class.

Just as Good as the First!

Didn’t think I could love any characters as much as Bea and George but Rosa and Lex are just as deeply developed and lovable. My new favorite series!

I loved it

I love all the royal formalities and look in into the love lives of the royals. Enjoyed that the first and second book were tied together by a lot of chapters. I can’t wait for book 3 and 4. Would it be presumptuous to assume there could be a straight Theo romance novel with a gay supporting cast? I hope Theo finds love! He’s one of my favorites.

First book was better

I wish they had kept the same narrator through out. But what can you do. I liked that it followed up with characters from the first book.

Reconnecting

Really enjoyed reconnecting with old character and meeting new ones. Very excited to see this series continue.

I liked

This was a good story. I enjoyed it a lot and would have given it 5 stars but I also listened to the audible of the first book as well and I liked the narration from the first book better. I mean they made Cameron sound regular when she's Scottish.

I can't stop re-listening to this story!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Jenny Frame is a great author in this genre. Thank you SO much for much needed excellence in writing.

What did you like best about this story?

The characters were believable, their emotions and reactions believable, and the love story is amazing.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No I enjoyed listening on my commute. This makes that part of my day the best part.

Unfortunately felt like I struggled through it

audio books are tricky if narration is off. I tend to listen when i am doing activities which limit my ability to read like working in my yard. I had listened to Royal Romance and I enjoyed the story and the narration. changing the style of speech from proper posh lime the royals and the more common local dialect of Bea's family and friends was great along with Captain Cameron's Scottish accent. So I got this thinking it had the same narrator and to be honest I should still check. the problem is if you listen to Royal Romance then Royal Rebel the characters that are in both novels do not sound the same. Especially, Capt. Cameron and Bea. it was disappointing and distracting. as far as the story it felt rushed. I like a slower more developed attraction and I just didn't get invested in these two characters. I almost put the book down a few times because i was so disinterested but wanted something to listen to while I worked. plus one scene between George and Bea was so similar to one with Rosala and Lex (tempting someone catching them having sex) I was like "Ok fast forward." Now if you like some mild gender bending sex where one character feels more themselves in a certain scenario then it might be exactly what you are looking for. Although that is not what I disliked it was I like to get my out of more subtle interactions between characters. I don't feel like I'm describing well. I just basically didn't feel their connection so it left it feeling dull to me.

Good sequel

I enjoyed listening to this book but missed Bea's London accent and Cam's Scottish accent from the first book which added to the character's so not everyone spoke in cut-glass English. I liked how new characters were introduced alongside the familiar characters from the first book.

Should have briefed the narrator

Overall I enjoyed this story and had no problem with Vincent’s narrative skills but with this being a sequel I feel the producers should have made sure she was aware that one of the characters is actually a proud Scottish woman and doesn’t have an upper class English accent as she’s been given in this book of the series. The character doesn’t play a big part in this story but I don’t feel that’s an excuse to forget about a big characteristic of hers.

Pushed boundary of believability a tad

The narration is very good for this audiobook. The story was okay. I found the believability a bit hard to accept at times, and didn't really take to the the characters that well, as its hard to identify with either of them. The Rosa character worked well, I felt the Lennox's past was a bit overplayed, and really from plot perspective I felt a bit underwhelmed as the threat from Rose's ex did not seem immediate. There needed to be more foreshadowing leading to the later event with Rosa's father. But many liked this, so it could just be it wasn't for me.

A great alternative to this - The Princess Affair, by Nell Stark which I think does a better job of allowing the reader *(listener) to identify with the pauper as well as experiencing divide between Royal and peasant more effectively.