Shanti has made it her life goal to be a queen, so when she was chosen from to marry Sanyu, she is prepared to finally fulfill her dream and make a difference. Unfortunately, I had a hard time connecting with these characters and it was very, very slow. A king and queen who had a marriage of convenience and then fall in love? YES. But Sanyu is from a very male-dominated monarchy where the queen stays silent and the king rotates through queens every I was so excited for this book. This is my first time reading Alyssa Cole and I would try her again but not this series. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I felt the love between the main couple or the advisor would have got what was coming to him. While there were parts of the book I liked, overall it was just an okay and at times boring read for me. The ended felt rushed, and the advisor issues got glossed over. I wanted him to get some real comeuppances for the crap he did but nope. She could have been a chair for all he took notice.Д«y the time I warmed up a bit to Sanyu it was too little, too late. It also bothered me how little he cared for or thought about Shanti. I felt he didn't have much of a backbone and let his advisor do all his thinking. Sanyu on the other hand I didn't like that much. That she stood for what she believed in and wanted to be a good queen. I did like that Shanti wanted to make a difference. Instead I found myself drowning in boring over the top details of royal life, and the politics of being the queen and king. Their relationship wasn't just a slow burn it was nonexistent. Unfortunately I never felt the love between Sanyu and Shanti. The cover is beautiful and the synopsis sounded so good.

When turmoil erupts in their kingdom and their marriage, Shanti goes on the run, and Sanyu must learn whether he has what it takes both to lead his people and to catch his queen.moreДў.5 Meh stars I really wanted to love this book. By night, she wears the crown, and he bows to her demands in matters of politics and passion. Even more vexing? His beguiling new queen seems to have the answers to his countryвЂ™s problems-except no one will listen to her.Д«y day, they lead separate lives. He agrees to take a wife as is required of him, though he doesnвЂ™t expect to actually fall in love. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong.ДЄ king must rule with an iron fist, and newly crowned King Sanyu was born perfectly fitted for the gauntlet, even if he wishes he werenвЂ™t. When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true.

Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was t An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa ColeвЂ™s Runaway Royals seriesвЂ¦ An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa ColeвЂ™s Runaway Royals seriesвЂ¦ When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true.

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