Review Tour: Part-time Princess by Pamela DuMond

Part-time Princess 

by Pamela DuMond 
(Ladies in Waiting #1) 
Publication date: Spring 2014
Genres: Comedy, New Adult, Romance

Synopsis:Two Princes are in love with her. Too bad she’s an imposter…Hold tight to your tiara, grab your scepter and be prepared for the New Adult hilarious, modern-day romantic-comedy ride of your life!
Rated PG-13 and mildly R for:Sexual innuendo.Hot Guys.Hot Guys who are Princes.Flirting.Romance.The occasional naughty word.The occasional naughty royal fantasy.The occasional naughty deed.Romance.Castles.Ladies-in-Waiting.Parties!Cocktails.A puppy.Gowns.Intrigue.Chocolate.Champagne.A Royal Wedding!Comedy.Sexiness.More Romance.And—a Happily-Ever-After Ending (Just not the way you expected it!)Lucy Trabbicio’s a down-on-her-luck, young, American, former biker-bar cocktail waitress desperate to find a job. Lady Elizabeth Billingsley hires Lucy to travel to Fredonia, the tiny jewel of a country in the Alps, for ten days ‘tops’ to impersonate her.
Say what? How the heck is that going to happen?In the mother of all makeovers, Elizabeth’s people teach Lucy how to dress, walk, talk, eat, be coiffed and even get naked like a European Lady.
The goal?To keep Crown Prince Cristoph Timmel interested in Elizabeth until she finishes her unexpected, pressing personal business in the States.But fate intervenes… Lucy meets and is wildly attracted to sexy, bad-boy Nick on the oh-so-long flights to Fredonia. Unfortunately for Lucy—Nick and Elizabeth have a hot sexual history, which Nick wants to immediately resume.Prince Cristoph proposes marriage.
What’s an imposter girl to do? Elizabeth insists that she’ll make it back home in time for the wedding. Lucy accepts Cristoph’s proposal and is on the fast track to becoming a Princess but continues to fall for the wrong Prince of Fredonia—Nick. When another tiny glitch arises—someone’s trying to kill her.The only folks helping Lucy are her wild, party hard, take-no-prisoners Ladies-in-Waiting.When the real Lady Elizabeth decides she’s not marrying Cristoph and never returning to Fredonia, Lucy’s faced with an uncomfortable decision—continue her deception, marry the prince she’s not in love with and live a dream life albeit without Nick, her dream guy? Or tell the truth and return to poverty and oblivion?A modern day sexy fairy tale with romance, twists and turns, LOL moments, a few tears and an empowering ending.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22730727-part-time-princess

Purchase:

--Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Part-time-Princess-Ladies---Waiting-1-ebook/dp/B00M8LVW10/ref=la_B0049J16NS_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410790419&sr=1-8

--B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/part-time-princess-pamela-dumond/1120112712?ean=2940150761582

--Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/part-time-princess

Review:

Part-time Princess is about a girl struggling to make ends meet, loses her current job and comes across an ad on Daveslist (the equivalent of Craigslist) for a very mysterious, yet intriguing part-time  job that pays really well. Lucy decides to send in her resume and is excited when she gets a response. Little does she know, the part-time job is to pretend to be Lady Elizabeth Theresa Billingsley for a few weeks.

I found Part-time Princess to be a super cute story. Lucy is a feisty one, and tends to be a bit on the sarcastic side. She's the perfect candidate to take this kind of job. She gives everything her all and when something isn't working out, she doesn't stick around to see if it will. She's a go-and-get-it kind of gal and I really liked that about her. She doesn't put up with peoples BS. And under normal circumstances, she blunt and will tell it like it is. You know, unless the truth violates her contract.

I did however dislike the fact that everything seemed to fall into place for her so easily. I won't elaborate on this because it will give far too much of the story away, but it seemed like she never truly struggled with much except for her finances. And her tendency to be a bit awkward, but even the awkwardness people seemed to love about her. People would notice how different she was from before she had left for the States, but they all played it off as her having spent so much time there and didn't think anything of it. It was hard to believe at times. Even her relationships with the people in Elizabeth's life was hard to believe at times. 

With that being said, Pamela DuMond created a very amusing, light-hearted and fun story that's a quick easy read. I am curious though if the story will continue with Lucy's point-of-view or if we will switch to one of the ladies in waiting?? 

I rate this book: 3 stars

AUTHOR BIO

Pamela DuMond is the author who discovered Erin Brockovich’s life story, thought it would make a great movie and pitched it to ‘Hollywood’.

She writes romantic comedic mysteries, romantic YA time travel and New Adult romance.

Her book The Story of You and Me was a Quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakout Novel Award (ABNA) 2014 in Romance.

Cupcakes, Pies, and Hot Guys was a Quarterfinalist in ABNA 2013 in Mystery .

She’s addicted to TV shows — The Voice and Reign. The movies Love Actually and The Bourne trilogy (with Matt Damon — not that other actor guy,) make her cry ever time she watches them. (Like — a thousand.)

When she’s not writing Pamela’s also a chiropractor and cat wrangler. She loves reading, the beach, working out, movies, TV, animals, her family and friends. She lives in Venice, California with her fur-babies.

She likes her coffee strong, her cabernet hearty, her chocolate dark, her foods non-GMO and she lives for a good giggle.

Author links:

http://www.pameladumond.com/ 

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4430293.Pamela_DuMond 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pamela-DuMond-Books/694104930620682 

https://twitter.com/Pamela_DuMond

This review is part of the Part-Time Princess Blog Tour. You can find more stops here: http://xpressobooktours.com/2014/07/15/tour-sign-up-part-time-princess-by-pamela-dumond/