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Part-Time Princess is a romantic comedy that is part Princess Diaries and part imposter story, (an example is slipping my mind). It was a very cute, very funny and overall very fun read. It is just the kind of light read that you can escape into for a couple of hours and come out the other end feeling happy. It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot of fun. And sometimes that is just what I am looking for in a book.

I loved the main character, Lucy! Flat out loved the heck out of her. She was nice and funny and spunky. She made the story for me. She is falling on hard times, having just lost her job and only way to pay for the mental health care her uncle needs. She has had to grow up quickly, so when this mysterious job offer comes around, she can't say no. She was not given a whole lot of information to go on, and that kind of bugged me. She was told that she would be impersonating a lady of Fredonia (made up country) for 10 days while the real Lady Elizabeth goes on a secret mission of some kind. But she wasn't given much else. Keep some prince interested in her and don't sleep with him. That was it. I thought they should have prepared her much better. It was like they were setting her up to fail. But through trial and error, which was the fun part anyway, she ended up being a wonderful lady. I loved that she became known as the lady with a heart.

The romance in the book was cute, but you really don't know where it is going until the very end. Partly because the summary says that the happy ending is an unexpected one, and partly because Pamela DuMond throws tons of curveballs at the reader to keep them on their toes. I liked that I didn't know what was going to happen until I turned the page. The actual romance was lacking a bit something to make me go from like to swoony. I liked their chemistry, but I didn't feel it 100%. It wasn't rushed or insta-love, but rather I think the issue was that there just weren't that many opportunities in the book for Lucy and her guy (I purposely don't want to use a name) to gain a good basis for falling in love because there was so much else going on. In the end, what they had was really cute and because I loved Lucy (and the guy really) so much that it didn't bother me. I just didn't swoon completely over them. But never fear, there is so much to love about Part-Time Princess. The whole cast of characters are great. I adored Lucy and her ladies in waiting. This book really has a little something for everyone. It was a really fun read.

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