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Thursday, April 20, 2017

ROYCE ROLLS by Margaret Stohl / Blog Tour: Book Review & Giveaway #RoyceRolls


Welcome to the next stop on the ROYCE ROLLS blog tour! I'm so thrilled to share my review for Margaret Stohl's newest release. Below you'll find my spoiler free review, along with a GIVEAWAY! First, here's a little bit about the book.

ABOUT THE BOOK


By: Margaret Stohl
Published by: Freeform
Released on: April 4, 2017
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Rating: 4 Stars
Source: book from publisher to review in exchange for my honest review

Sixteen-year-old Bentley Royce seems to have it all: an actual Bentley, tuition to a fancy private school, lavish vacations, and everything else that comes along with being an LA starlet. But after five seasons on her family's reality show, Rolling with the Royces, and a lifetime of dealing with her narcissistic sister, Porsche, media-obsessed mother, Mercedes, and somewhat clueless brother, Maybach, Bentley wants out. Luckily for her, without a hook for season six, cancellation is looming and freedom is nigh. With their lifestyle on the brink, however, Bentley's family starts to crumble, and one thing becomes startlingly clear--without the show, there is no family. And since Bentley loves her family, she has to do the unthinkable--save the show. But when her future brother-in-law's car goes over a cliff with both Bentley and her sister's fianc inside-on the day of the big made-for-TV wedding, no less-things get real.
Really real. Like, not reality show real.

Told in a tongue-in-cheek voice that takes a swipe at all things Hollywood, Royce Rolls is a laugh-out-loud funny romp with an LA noir twist about what it means to grow up with the cameras rolling and what really happens behind the scenes.

ROYCE ROLLS dazzles with all the glitz and glamour you'd except to see on reality TV, and has come to life in Margaret Stohl, YA book form perfection. With humor, wit, mishaps, reality TV deception, and intelligence, this book was one I got hooked on. I may not be a reality TV fan, but this is one reality show story I'd hoped would have another season, aka sequel, because I need more of this story!

Who needs reality TV when you have ROYCE ROLLS? This book is a package of entertainment wrapped up in a pretty cover. It's full of hilarious moments, charm, heartwarming moments, and paybacks. It's oh so good! From the characters, to the storyline, and everything in between, this book just the book I needed. 

I really enjoyed the way this book was written. I enjoyed the character dialogue, the TV production footnotes, the network's legal notes, and the over all story. I really liked that Stohl took her time setting up the story, and allowed me to get to know the characters during the first half of the story. Come the second half, it was more action packed, and suspenseful. I loved the twist to the story, and the way it unfolds. There's definitely a great who done it, and why. 

I really enjoyed the characters. There's plenty of good characters and a few not so awesome characters. Yeah, the kind you love to hate. My favorite part of this story was Bentley. This was such a great cast of characters. I loved the family dynamics, down to the love interests, and the interactions between all of them and the network. One thing is for sure, the Royce women are not to be under estimated. Especially Bentley.

Bentley Royce hails from reality TV royalty. She is not at all what I was excepting. I absolutely loved her character. This girl is definitely not just another pretty Hollywood face. There is so much more to what meets the eye with this girl. I should say she's far more than what she's scripted for. She's witty, intelligent, loves her family, and just wants more than what her family's reality TV show has given her. She wants to be free to be who she is, and follow her dreams. I definitely couldn't fault her for that.

Like any scripted story, reality TV show or not, there's always more than meets the eye. Bentley's story is proof that a few minutes of air time doesn't even begin to cover the real story of what's going on when the cameras aren't rolling. There's definitely drama when they are. The story I loved getting was the happens when the cameras weren't on. 

Whether you're a reality TV junky, or a fan of reading, ROYCE ROLLS is one entertaining read! Trust me, I'm not a huge contemporary fan, but this book was AWESOME! I second what all the quotes on the back of the book say. haha

ABOUT THE AUTHOR



The #1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl got her start as thehead of the Dark is Rising fan club in third grade in a highly gifted magnet school in Los Angeles. Going on to study at a creative writing program at UEA Norwich, England, and to write and direct an autobiographical one-act play at Amherst College—where she founded the school’s first women’s literary magazine, Madness This—Margaret knew she was a writer. 

After optioning two feature screenplays to Nickelodeon Pictures and Clasky-Csupo, Margaret began a sixteen-year career in videogames, co-founding 7 Studios game developer with her husband Lewis Peterson, and contributing to both Marvel’s Spiderman (ActivisionBlizzard) and Fantastic Four (7 Studios / ActivisonBlizzard) among many other titles—Dune 2000; Command & Conquer Red Alert Retaliation; Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of Jack Sparrow; to name a few.

When Margaret co-wrote the first of the internationally bestselling Beautiful Creatures novels (published in nearly fifty countries, named Amazon’s top teen book of 2009, short-listed for the ALA’s 2009 Morris award, and released as a feature film from Warner Brothers) on a dare from her three daughters, she fell even more in love with teen culture. Her first sci-fi series, Icons, is now in development as a feature film with Alcon Entertainment. Her Black Widow series from Disney Publishing (Black Widow: Forever Red and Black Widow: Red Vengeance) is a welcome chance to rock a strong female character and to return to her beloved Marvel roots. She is also writing the Mighty Captain Marvel comics. 

If asked, Margaret will tell you that the Women of Marvel panel at New York Comicon was the greatest single hour of her life, and that she fangirls all girls who read comics. As a co-founder of YALLFEST, the biggest YA book festival in the country, and its offspring YALLWEST, Margaret believes her readers are her kindred spirits and her tribe. 

Margaret lives in Santa Monica with her husband, who builds drones and robots, and her three daughters, who are competitive epee fencers—and who, like Natasha Romanov, have always known how to rescue themselves.

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