This was just ok for me. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. It was an easy read and followed a Prince from a fairy tale trying to escape his story and get out of the book. The characters could act much younger than their ages at times and a lot of their actions were a bit silly. The premise had a lot of potential to be great since its every readers dream to have their book crush come to life and fall in love with the reader. But, it was executed poorly and played to a much younger audience than I think it was aiming for. I can imagine a pre-teen girl loving this, but not much older than that. Even though our main characters are supposed to be fifteen and sixteen years old, they acted like they were in middle school and there was definitely a degree of insta-love that wasn't believable at all. Overall, I would say for a middle school girl this is the perfect book, but if you're looking for a gratifying or even interesting love story, this is not the book for you. I have a bit of hope left for the companion novel to this, Off the Page, since it's supposed to follow our characters once the prince has escaped the fairytale. Maybe once it's no longer set in a children's storybook we might get a bit more of an age appropriate tale. Fingers crossed.
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