{"id":3714,"date":"2014-07-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2014-07-12T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:14:43","slug":"royally-lost-by-angie-stanton-book-review-her-prince-is-here-on-a-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3714","title":{"rendered":"Royally Lost, by Angie Stanton (book review) &#8211; her prince is here&#8230;on a motorcycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=4326\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost.jpg?fit=431%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"431,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost.jpg?fit=431%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4326\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost-199x300.jpg?resize=200%2C301\" alt=\"book cover of Royally Lost by Angie Stanton published by Harper Teen\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Royally-Lost.jpg?w=431&amp;ssl=1 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>They&#8217;re escaping parents and routines<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t know they&#8217;d find each other,<br \/>\nthe prince and the American girl &#8211;<br \/>\ncan they bear to lose each other so soon?<\/p>\n<p>Nikolai&#8217;s insistence that the Mondovian royal family not be merely a decorative burden on his small kingdom falls on deaf ears. Becca&#8217;s horrible recent breakup (and he&#8217;ll be in the same college dorm with her in 6 weeks!) and dislike of her so-put-together stepmother lead to the Midwestern teen&#8217;s first rebellious acts. And romance blooms from one casual encounter in the quaint European streets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Find this May 2014 paperback at your local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">local library<\/a> or favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a>, and travel through Europe by riverboat, motorcycle, and the wings of love!<\/p>\n<p>**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: Royally Lost \/ Angie Stanton.\u00a0 Harper Teen, 2014.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/angiestanton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062272584\/royally-lost\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: Stuck on a boring European tour with her family, Becca finds the love of her life &#8211; a real prince taking an unapproved holiday &#8211; but after the ten-day tour is over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When Nickolai&#8217;s father orders him to military training, the Crown Prince sneaks away incognito for time off from protocol and formal dinners.<\/p>\n<p>This riverboat tour through Austria should be &#8220;good family time&#8221; for Becca and Dylan&#8217;s harried executive dad and designer-clad stepmom, but both teens want time away from historic sights after day one.<\/p>\n<p>Honoring her late mom&#8217;s deathbed admonition to be good hasn&#8217;t helped Becca much lately, so it&#8217;s time to break some rules and find a way to spend more time with cute Nik\u00a0 &#8211; before the King&#8217;s security forces catch up with the errant prince!\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re escaping parents and routines didn&#8217;t know they&#8217;d find each other, the prince and the American girl &#8211; can they bear to lose each other so soon? Nikolai&#8217;s insistence that the Mondovian royal family not be merely a decorative burden on his small kingdom falls on deaf ears. Becca&#8217;s horrible recent breakup (and he&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,216,22,4,75,11,20,5,37,16,215,18,40,46,43,39,15,217,21,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-austria","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-europe","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-relationships","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}