This was just an average historical fiction book. For a book with the subtitle: “A novel of Grace Kelly’s royal wedding” Grace Kelly was hardly in this book. A better subtitle would be “2 people who briefly interacted with Grace Kelly & fell in love.”

Sophie was a very relatable and likable character. She has an alcoholic mother, and a stereotypical, high society, controlling boyfriend, also her perfume business is failing. The relationship between James and Sophie felt rush. I felt the build up of their relationship could’ve been longer instead of summarized.

The ending of this book bothered me. The last few chapters had a huge 30 year time gap from Grace Kelly’s wedding in 1956 to the day she died in 1982. It was not a satisfying ending, and it felt rushed and unfinished.

Overall it was an ok story, I just wish the ending didn’t feel incomplete.