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Reluctantly Royal

Royals Gone Rogue, Book 1

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Reluctantly Royal

By: Erin Nicolle, Erin Nicholas
Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Shaina Summerville
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A marriage of convenience between a dirty-talking prince and the socially awkward scientist who brings him to his knees...

A marriage proposal from a deliciously handsome and wickedly charming prince sounds like a fairytale.

But for a nerdy scientist with severe social anxiety, it's a horror story.

Prince Torin O'Grady, with his mischievous blue eyes and cocky grin, is always in the spotlight. And he needs to marry me to inherit the crown.

But we have nothing in common. He's a future king. And I'm perfectly happy slogging through mud in my work boots.

So why can't I stop thinking about him?

Maybe because he won't stop texting me. And sending me gifts. And making me feel like everything I find awkward and weird about myself is special and amazing.

And there's also that little detail of him offering me my dream job and telling me that together we can change the world.

Well, I could probably work for him.

And if I have to marry him temporarily to get what we both want, then fine. It's for the greater good.

It has nothing to do with the way he kisses me. Or that dirty mouth. Or the royal treatment he gives me in the bedroom.

Fine. Maybe it does. Still, it's only a year. Then I can turn in my tiara and come back to my normal, boring, behind-the-scenes life.

But Torin is determined to turn me from reluctantly royal to royally his.

©2024 Erin Nicholas (P)2024 Erin Nicholas Contemporary Romantic Comedy Royalty Funny Heartfelt Witty Feel-Good
Engaging Character Development • Swoony Romance • Charming Prince • Delightful Humor • Spicy Scenes • Emotional Depth
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I loved everything about this book. I loved the story itself and it was made 100 times better with the fantastic narration by Shaina Summerville and Jasone Clarke. I have been a fan of Jason's for years. But this was the first time I have listened to Shaina and I just loved her performance. And Jason with an Irish accent...sign me up please. He did such a fantastic job with the accent work, he literally blew me away.

Who wouldn't want to marry a handsome prince...even if it is for convenience and for just a year. Torin needs to get married so that he can become King when his grandfather steps down. Unfortunately, the person his family wants him to marry is in love with someone else and Torin just doesn't want to marry her. But Torin does have his eye on a certain American he can't get out of his mind.

Abigail is working hard with her farming ideas but it's just not gaining the ground she needs for it to take off. Torin however loves her idea and wants to put it to use...at his home in Cara and he would love for her to do this as his wife. Abigail isn't sure about this at first but then Torin convinces her it will just be for a year while he proves to his grandfather that he can and wants to be King one day.

Abigail and Torin both agree that it's only for a year and feelings shouldn't be involved. But these two can't help but falling in love with each other. Together they prove to everyone in Cara that they are the perfect Prince and Princess.

Absolutely loved this book...Perfect Narration

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a little too graphic but liked the idea that love was paramount and communication is key...Jason Clarke's voice. fun to hear him do so many different characyers. accents are great. he is very talented.

great syory. talented performers.

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Reluctantly Royal-Erin Nicolle
Narrated by Jason Clarke and Shaina Summerville

Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Narration 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

I loved this book! I am a sucker for marriage of convenience and he falls first books and boy did he fall first. Abby is such a brilliant mind but she’s also so socially awkward and gets social anxiety so bad that it’s debilitating. And it makes her so relatable, not only to us as the reader, but to our super charming hero Prince Torin as well. He is enamored with her from first sight and he turned the charm all the way up. These two are as opposite as two people could probably be, but they also work so well together. Torin needs a wife in order for his grandfather to pass the throne down to him, and Abby wants to end world hunger by building community indoor farms. Torin’s small remote country off the coast of Denmark and Ireland would be the ideal climate for her to put all her research into practice. Will they get through the year of their fake marriage in order to win over the people of Cara with Abby’s farms in order for Torin’s grandfather to pass the crown down to him?

The audio for this was absolutely phenomenal. I was not prepared for how freaking scorching Jason was going to be. Between an Irish accent and Torin’s dirty mouth 🥵🥵🥵 and Shaina did such a stunning job bringing Abby to life. Abby had a lot of vulnerable moments with her social anxiety and I think Shaina did a great job portraying all of Abby, but her vulnerable moments especially.

Princess

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Torin needs to get married to inherit the crown. So he makes a marriage proposal to Abigail. They have nothing in common, but she can't stop thinking about him. In exchange he's planning on helping her make her dreams come true.

I giggled and swooned over Torin. I thought the story was super cute and it's spicy! This was my first book by this author. I loved her writing style. I listened to an advanced copy of the audiobook. It's fantastic! Performed in duet narration by Jason Clarke as Torin and Shaina Summerville as Abigail. Jason has an Irish accent and is a prince. I loved him as Torin. He exuded Torin's charming personality. I loved how Torin fell head over heels for Abigail right from the beginning. Shaina is a new to me narrator. She captured Abigail's quirks and anxiety. I loved how Abigail was very passionate about climate change and farming. I loved how very supportive Torin was of her dreams. Overall, if you like royal rom coms I would recommend this one!

5 stars

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Audiobook and Book Review

🩷 Reluctant Prince
💜 Scientist/Farmer
🩷 Marriage of Convenience
💜 D!RTY TALK!NG MMC 🥵
🩷 ‘Charming’ 😏😈
💜 “My wife”

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Narration: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (can I give it 10?)

ABSOLUTELY SWOON-WORTHY. The amount of gasping, squealing, hand to my chest or mouth out of sheer excitement, giddiness, screeching, and overall smiling so hard my cheeks hurt, while reading this book was astronomical. It has been a very, very long time since I have read a lighthearted book that made me feel so many wonderful things, all while being Spicy AF! Reluctantly Royal has moved to the top of my list of favorites for 2024! 💜🩷

Ok this story is adorable AND spicy! But more than that, Abigail’s reasons for being a farmer and believing that government should be taking care of its people. Feeding its people. Providing assistance, not to the BIG farming corporations for money and profit, but to the small mom and pop farms. To family farms so that people can eat healthier and have better access to all types of foods. Well damn it, it just makes sense! Our government needs to read this book. Because Abi makes more good points than most of our “leaders” combined!

Generational stubbornness adds to Torin’s frustration to try to make real changes. He may have abdicated but he’s back and wants to make real change, positive change for Cara. Torin may have a proposition for Abigail to get the throne, but there is a ‘rightness’ to it. Torin wants a wife yes, but he wants to support her dreams. That means so much. Most men don’t understand that a woman just wants to be heard and seen. Torin does that, like on an EPIC scale, all while being a respectfully dominant dreamboat 😍 Torin is the best kind of MMC, not only does he listen, but he’s thoughtful, and he wants to make a difference. Holy sh!t does he have some of the best, graphic d!rty t@lk! Wowzers!

Abigail is an actual freaking genius. She may have stage fright because kids büllied her for being intelligent, but I love that Torin just “has her.” Her encourages her and props her up rather than trying to diminish her. She has excellent plans for sustainable food growth for people. Torin is helping her make those plans a reality, all while giving her the confidence she lacks because of what she experienced growing up. Abi may have social anxiety but instead of letting it rule her, she shows her vulnerability. She comes up with creative ideas to interact with people without letting her anxiety take over. So what if she throws up? Torin will be there to help her…even if it does leave her bootless. 😉

Listening to Jason “super sweet in person (I’ve heard) but absolutely wicked behind the mic” Clarke, narrate with a hint of an Irish accent, is sinfully delicious. And I 👏🏼am👏🏼here👏🏼for👏🏼it! SIR. 🥵🫠 I continue to be enthralled with his narration. His voice and his skill are both perfection. That is all.

I legitimately forgot that I wasn’t actually listening to intelligent, shy, sassy Abigail, but that I was listening to Shaina Summerville narrate! That’s how good she was! This is my first audiobook of hers but will definitely not be my last! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Shaina! She is AMAZING 🩷🩷🩷

Thank you Home Cooked Books for the ALC of what is now one of my favorite books! 😍 This is a dynamite combo of narrators for this book. A new top duo for me!

🪴 “As a prince I’m kind of obligated to return shoes to beautiful, intriguing women when they leave them behind after we dance,” I tell her.
🪴 "No. You’ve said enough tonight. All I want to hear from you is yes, Torin, or my Prince. Or, sir, if you'd like. I'll even allow Your Highness. But yeses and my name or title. That's it."

Why can’t I give more than 5 Stars!?!

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This is a really adorable story that I listened to within the day because the duet performance by Jason Clarke and Shaina Summerville is a 10 out of 10. Jason Clarke is one of my favorite narrators and this performance of Reluctantly Royal is no exception - his slight Irish accent is spot on and both he and Shaina really made this very cute story come to life.

Reluctantly Royal is a marriage of convenience coming off of instant attraction between Torin, a prince who needs a wife to be taken seriously, and Abigail, the introverted, anxious genius who wants to use her talents to create sustainable farms. They are complete opposites but their chemistry is fire. Torin has a very dirty mouth and uses it well. There are scenes where he encourages Abigail to use her words too which is spicy but also made me giggle.

Abigail's reluctance to get emotionally involved was frustrating but by the end of the story, I understood her perspective better. This story was overall fun, very spicy, and just a good time. I think listening to this one made some of what I thought were repetitive scenes not too bad because of the performance but I am not sure if I would have enjoyed this book as much if I had read it.

Tropes & Elements:
💍 Marriage of Convenience
🩷 He falls first and super hard
🔥 Spicy
👑 Prince finds a Princess
⚡️ Opposites Attract
🫶 Anxiety Rep
✌🏻 Dual POV

10 out of 10 performance for this cute royal story

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Reluctantly Royal is the first book in the Royals Gone Rogue series, but it can be read as a standalone.

I love a good marriage of convenience, but throw in the whole royalty aspect, and it was even better. In this case, Torin had to get married and the only woman he wanted was Abi. She was reluctant for many reasons, the main one being she did not want to be in front of people.

The mental health aspect was so well done. I truly felt for Abi, and I really loved how Torin never once judged her for it. He just did whatever he could to make her comfortable; he wanted her as his princess and never forced her to do anything that would make her anxious.

Torin was really so sweet and caring. And he fell so hard and fast for Abi. I just liked seeing how patient he was with her and how much he truly cared and listened to her.

Abi gained more confidence in herself, and I liked how she was so passionate about certain things.

This was such a cute royal romance, and I enjoyed it. It was my first book by Erin Nicolle, but it won’t be the last.

Audio:
Narrators: Jason Clarke and Shaina Summerville
Style: Duet

This was my first time listening to Shaina, and she did an amazing job as not only Abi, but the side characters as well! There was a podcast of a few women, and each one sounded different. Jason Clarke does an accent, and it’s amazing (though he never disappoints, so I wasn’t surprised).

Great narration

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I went in blind to this audiobook and I was not expecting such a rich story! Huge character arcs and development and politics inside a cute tale of a Prince falling for the genius scientist who is socially awkward.

Nor was I expecting the level of dirty talk and spice! Whew!!

This was the first time I heard Shaina Summerville's narration. I enjoyed it and felt like she fit the character well. The only thing that kept throwing me off was that none of the female characters who live in Cara (Linnea, podcasters, etc) have an Irish accent. Whereas, all the male characters that Jason Clarke plays who are from Cara, have an Irish accent. Perhaps I missed something in the story that would have explained this. Jason is so talented to play so many different male characters and make them sound like unique individuals.

Really enjoyed it and now want to complete the series.

So much more than a cute rom com!

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Phew. This book. Erin Nicolle has created these beautiful, flawed, three dimensional characters living this amazing love story in a wonderful little country while they work together by using a revolutionary idea to solve a real world problem, and it all. Feels. So. Real. And so swoony. And gah - I want to go live in Cara with Torin and Abigail and work on a farm and I do not even like to get nature on me - ever. That’s how real and perfect this story is. The whole time I was reading this love story, the Willy Wonka song was playing quietly in my head. “Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation. ... If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.” This story had just the perfect balance of humor, heartwarming love, real life issues, and spice. Torin is the crown prince of the small island nation of Cara. In order for the king to take him seriously he needs a wife. Abigail is a super smart and nerdy agricultural scientist who has social anxiety. Torin met Abigail two years ago at her sister’s wedding and has not been able to get her out of his head. So he proposes a marriage of convenience for a year. He gets a princess, she gets to implement her greatest idea, and we get to watch it all unfold in beautiful swoony technicolor scenes. I loved how Torin and Abigail’s relationship developed organically, how it strengthened and deepened as they spent their days together, and how the snippets of their days and the podcasts moved their story along. The journey to their HEA included sweet moments, dirty talking spice, snort worthy laughs, supportive friends, messy families, an adorable nation and its people, baggage unpacking, changes of heart, missteps, and all the heart squeezing love. I loved this story so much and I was so sorry that it ended so I am just going to have to read this one again while I wait for the next royal tale.

Jason Clarke and Shaina Summerville did a good job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice multiple characters quite convincingly.

All the swoons, the love, and the feels

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This was my first experience with Erin Nicolle's work, and the story was a sizzling, Cinderella-ish fairytale. Prince Torin O'Grady was in search of a wife. Abigail was an exceptional scientist, who had severe social anxiety, but dreamed of changing the world. The story was charming. The characters were relatable. I enjoyed the modern society accents that were present in this tale. There were some steamy descriptive scenes. Jason Clarke's and Shaina Summerville's dual narrations added to the story's entertainment. I was given a free copy of the audiobook by Home Cooked Books, and I have voluntarily posted this review which included my opinions.

A Prince & A Socially Awkward Scientist

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