Kiss the Girl (The Naughty Princess Club, #3)

by Tara Sivec

• ISBN10: 1250137225
• ISBN13: 9781250137227
• Publish Date: 2018
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[thebookdisciple]

Kiss the Girl came highly recommended by several trusted book friends. I was hesitant. RomCom is so hit or miss for me. I have read Sivec's contemporary romances though and know she has a good style. So, I capitulate. Here are my thoughts:

• By the end of the first chapter, I wanted to throat punch Ariel. What a bitch! She is condescending, rude, and immature.


• By chapter 3/4 you learn the reason why but its still not a reason to behave the way she does. It just bothered me that a grown woman would behave the way she does and think its okay because her ex was verbally degrading to her.


• Eric is too good to be true. He is so in love with her and she is horrible to him. HORRIBLE.


• Ariel is lucky to have Cindy and Belle as friends. They are true ride or die bitches!


• Ok, by chapter 13 I don't HATE Ariel. I still think some of her behaviors are immature for a woman her age and that Eric is still too good for her. But, I have hope she will grow to be good enough for him.


• All right, so I think I have figured out that I just find Ariel abrasive. She kind of knocks women who are all gushy and lovey; like somehow being a snarky bitch is more in line with feminism? I just don't like people like her. But, that is just a personal thing. She might not annoy others!

Overall, this was a cute read. Lots of laughs and levity keep this book funny and easy. Eric is primo book boyfriend material for sure, so if you want a perfect hero, look no further. Take my thoughts on Ariel with the caveat that it was me, personally, struggling with her. Its possible that others won't find her as frustrating as I did.

 

• POV: 1st (Ariel)


• Tears: no


• Trope: fairytale retelling


• Triggers: none


• Series/Standalone: stand alone within an interconnected series


• Cliffhanger: no


• HEA: yes

authors like Alice Clayton, RS Grey, Amy Dawes...then you will probably like Kiss the Girl!

 

Kiss the Girl

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[stacey_is_sassy]

It’s not just stripping, it’s business…

I started this series a little squinty-eyed at the women in The Naughty Princess Club for their choice to become strippers. Yes, the huge judgemental cow that I am, I was worried that their love interest didn’t mind that they took their clothes off for other men. What Tara Sivec manages, in a very convincing way, is to make these women powerful for choosing their business and taking control. This control is both mental and physical. These women feel stronger for setting their path, taking control of the journey, and taking control of their financial well-being.

In Kiss the Girl we finally get to the feisty Ariel and the very tolerant, Eric. To be honest, I wasn’t that impressed when I started reading. I was worried that I had set too high an expectation that Ariel was going to be this confident woman who was totally in control. Yep, you guessed it, she’s human, flaws and all. I was also a little concerned that Eric seemed to love Ariel who absolutely hated him. It seemed like he had a screw loose. What could he possibly see in someone who swore and sneered at him on a regular basis?

Once the pieces fall into place we start to understand where Ariel has been and what has shaped her choices and how she came to be financially ruined. By the end, I got exactly what I was hoping for. Ariel regained her confidence, was again out-spoken, feisty and completely in control. Eric, well he was just plain dreamy. I loved that he understood Ariel, wanted her from their first meeting and set a game plan to Kiss the Girl.

It’s a funny thing, in each instalment of this series, I meet the heroine and convince myself there’s no way I’m going to love this story. The females seem weak and silly, gullible and lacking in common sense. Well, Tara Sivec writes magic very convincingly. She pulls out her magic wand, and with a bibbidi-bobbidi-boo, I’m seeing a strong, intelligent and confident and savvy woman. Magic, I tell you. Each of these women grows so much throughout their story and through the whole series. Not just because they found the men in their lives. These women’s lives are enhanced because of their man. Their success was of their own making.

I absolutely LOVED the connection between each story and a fairytale. I felt like such a goose for not identifying each one as it arises and only realising after reading that thing over and over and over again. I’m not going to tell you them, but I wonder if you’ll recognise them the first glimpse or the 3rd, 5th or 10th?

I’m sad that this series has come to an end. I did meet a few characters who I would love to meet again. There’s a certain lawyer that I would love to see find her happy ever after.

Stacey is Sassy, received a complimentary copy of this story. The copy provided is not the final copy and may be subject to edits and changes.

[Sam@WLABB]

Rating: 3.5 Stars

I had a feeling Sivec would turn this fairytale inside out and I was totally right! This is the first book I have read in the trilogy, but I intend to circle back and start from the beginning, because, as always, Sivec delivered a rather fun rom-com.

I loved what she did with these three classic tales. I had such a good time finding all the bits of the original story in Kiss the Girl, and thought Sivec did a brilliant job turning the tale on its side.

This Ariel was no Disney princess. No way. She was brash, foul-mouth, feisty, and hilarious. But you know what? She definitely encompassed the essence of the Ariel we know and love. She was fiercely independent and wanted to make it on her own. She was a collector of "things", and could sing the heck out of a pop song. Whereas original Ariel loses her actual voice, this Ariel lost her confidence and her ability to stand up for herself, so, more of her figurative voice, and I had a great time watching her get it back.

Ariel was great, but Eric was perfection. I was so in love with him. They had this kind of mutual hate going on, but it really was an intense mutual attraction that they were resisting. When the opportunity arose, Eric took his shot, and he was quite sneaky about it, but in a really sweet way. Without being obvious, he would give Ariel these little "nudges" on her path to rediscovering her confidence, and every little thing he did endeared him to me more and more. There were definitely heart eyes and swoon, when Eric was on the page.

Another thing I really appreciated was the friendship between the three naughty princesses. Women supporting women is always a good thing, and their friendship and the support they gave each other was a thing of beauty.

As with other Sivec books I have read, this one had some hysterical OTT moments. How did I not know about Goga? I had to google it, because that goat yoga scene cracked me up. Goga and a lot of other scenes were very funny - think Bridesmaids, and I loved them.

Sivec should get a round of applause for giving readers of this series such a lovely epilogue. I am a well known closure-ho, and epilogues are my thing. Not only did Sivec give us an epilogue, but it was a jump ahead epilogue with THREE time jumps. Yep! We got a little something extra for all three romances, and I really appreciated that she gifted us with those endings.

Overall: A fun OTT twisted fairytale, which made me laugh out loud, smile, and swoon.