Author:   Geneva Lee

Book: Crown Me (Royals Saga #3)

Other book in series:

Command Me (Royals Saga #1)
Conquer Me (Royals Saga #2)

My review for those books is here

tl;dr recommendation: Three stars – it’s fine, but I’m not crawling over anyone to get a copy.

Book Summary:

As the world tried to tear us apart, Alexander fought for me, claiming me as his own. I belong to him—body, heart, and soul. I found strength in his dominance. In his control. In his love.

Still I could always feel it: the darkness creeping toward our joy, threatening to overcome us. But I never imagined it would end like this. I thought I knew what marrying Alexander meant to my life. To my independence. To us.

I was wrong.

Ripped apart by tragedy, fighting for love, Clara and Alexander face their darkest hour in the stunning conclusion to their saga…

Longer Review:

It was pretty much exactly what I expected after my reaction to books 1 & 2. It perches prettily at the corner of eh and predictable. Did I expect it to just be an ok read? Maybe. But sometimes I expect that, and I’m blown away – that didn’t happen here. Why did I read it if I wasn’t dying over books 1&2? Because I’m a finisher (well, most of the time) and I was curious if reading the rest of the series would change my view on the whole thing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

I really don’t hate this series. It’s written well, the characters are nicely developed, and I occasionally cared about them. However, it’s really really predictable. I’m not rehashing my complaint about how this series is like fifty shades redux (if you’d like to see that, please view my review of 1&2), but I’ll let you know that the similarities continued. Do you want to know what happens in book three? Take Ana from FSOG and add a Prince. Sure, there are a couple of deviations, but the main stuff is there. I just sort of yawned my way through it.

Can I make one other minor complaint? I know I’m probably being nit-picky now, but there was an excessive overuse of the term ‘crown’ for the head of his penis. I get it. He’s going to be King, he’s going to be crowned,  the book is called Crown Me and you can call the head of a penis a crown. I know I’m overreacting, but that bugged me incessantly. It was like the author was trying to tell me an inside joke and saying “you get it? GET IT?” …Yes, I FUCKING GET IT.

Ok, so some good stuff: the sex is pretty hot, I’ll give this book that. The two of them fuck like rabbits. It’s fairly impressive being as how he’s in charge of running a country (ok, SORT OF. not to get into the politics of it, but I’m pretty sure the prime minister runs that country and he would just have other ceremonial obligations, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN). I do love a good dominant alpha male and Alexander fits that part to a T. I really liked their relationship and the relationships between the other characters. Edward is awesome, and I was super happy for his news in this book.

The ending made me mostly happy, even though we had to travel through the land of FSOG to get there. Overall, I liked it. It gives you a nice HEA with a comforting story line and it’s well written. Three stars for all.