Review: Royal pains
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
I have read most of this author's books.  This book is easily her edgiest and darkest.  The prince with amnesia, Kai, is light-hearted and upbeat, happy to date, play soccer and make friends with his new classmates at THS in Texas.  His mother, a Texas native, hardly recognizes her happy son with amnesia, he's so different from the young man she knows. When he breaks out of his fog, the grim reality of his role as prince of Halterra slams him.  He resents the limitations on his freedom.  His reluctance to pull a young woman into his fusty, protocol-filled royal orbit turns the story down a dark path.  He has found a lovely girl, and fallen in love, but he thinks he needs to give her up -- life with him in the cold stone castle in the Northern European country is not a life he wants to have her living.  Will they manage to bridge their divide?