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A review by bee_thebibliophile
Notorious Park Avenue Prince by Ella Frank, Brooke Blaine
3.5
East was the Park Avenue Prince’s story that I was most looking forward to. Unfortunately this one didn’t quite live up to my expectations in the end.
James (East) Easton can get anything he wants in the city just by dropping his last name and uses that to his advantage time and time again. Zac Fletcher is a grad student TA who has to deal with East in class and started to deal with him outside of class too thanks to a lot of pent-up frustration. Tyrone Kingston is a professor with a big secret…one that he doesn’t even fully clue East and Zac into for a while and I still feel like I’m missing a lot of parts even after finishing the book.
Their relationship starts as a plea for a hookup and turns into something much, much bigger than that. Their chemistry is great and their personalities together really worked and was super entertaining to read. I wish this book was longer or more than one book so that there was time to fully flesh out these three characters. The whole time they’re together they’d keep trying to have serious conversations that ultimately didn’t lead to anyone learning anything about each other - so much deflection and subject changing, I got a bit of whiplash
I definitely had some problems with their relationship dynamics. East and Zac’s already established non-relationship relationship was unexpected and super sweet - they were so protective of each other without even knowing but I hated that they didn’t really know anything about each other outside of hooking up. Zac and King’s work relationship turned into a romantic relationship felt like a natural progression, but the thing that bothered me most was that East felt like the third wheel when Zac and King were together and that didn’t sit well with me.
For this being the last of the Park Avenue Princes stories, I really expected more group moments. We had a few, but not nearly as many as I hoped. Potentially more to come in the Park Avenue Kings series coming next? This book felt like a lot of setup for the next series - we didn’t get many answers, just a lot more questions, which was frustrating since this is the last book in this series. So, I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens next?
James (East) Easton can get anything he wants in the city just by dropping his last name and uses that to his advantage time and time again. Zac Fletcher is a grad student TA who has to deal with East in class and started to deal with him outside of class too thanks to a lot of pent-up frustration. Tyrone Kingston is a professor with a big secret…one that he doesn’t even fully clue East and Zac into for a while and I still feel like I’m missing a lot of parts even after finishing the book.
Their relationship starts as a plea for a hookup and turns into something much, much bigger than that. Their chemistry is great and their personalities together really worked and was super entertaining to read. I wish this book was longer or more than one book so that there was time to fully flesh out these three characters. The whole time they’re together they’d keep trying to have serious conversations that ultimately didn’t lead to anyone learning anything about each other - so much deflection and subject changing, I got a bit of whiplash
I definitely had some problems with their relationship dynamics. East and Zac’s already established non-relationship relationship was unexpected and super sweet - they were so protective of each other without even knowing but I hated that they didn’t really know anything about each other outside of hooking up. Zac and King’s work relationship turned into a romantic relationship felt like a natural progression, but the thing that bothered me most was that East felt like the third wheel when Zac and King were together and that didn’t sit well with me.
For this being the last of the Park Avenue Princes stories, I really expected more group moments. We had a few, but not nearly as many as I hoped. Potentially more to come in the Park Avenue Kings series coming next? This book felt like a lot of setup for the next series - we didn’t get many answers, just a lot more questions, which was frustrating since this is the last book in this series. So, I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens next?