AAAALLLRIIIIIIIGHTYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am back with another book review!
This time I will be reviewing Regal Hearts, Seasons 1, 2, and 3, by Olivia Lynn Jarmusch!
(quick sidenote: if you want to read the spoilers, just highlight them with your cursor😉)
About this Series!!!!✨✨✨
Author: Olivia Lynn Jarmusch (author website: livylynnblog[dot]com)
Title for Each Book: Regal Hearts: Season One; Regal Hearts: Season Two; Regal Hearts: Season three
Official Blurbs:
Season One: Following the dramatic birth of her royal daughters, the Queen of Bella Adar is murdered by the merciless sword of an evil usurper. The helpless princesses are placed in the care of the URIA, an undercover organization who safely extracts and protects the girls from a tragic fate. Sixteen years later, Lena Bodner encounters a stranger who uncovers secrets from her past…
Season Two: Following the unexpected revelation of her regal heritage, Lena Bodner must travel to Tarsurella in search of allies. Rebuilding a broken nation is no small task. But now it’s up to Lena to convince her sisters to help. Will they learn to work together in love and unity? Will they rise to become the world-changers they were meant to be? Or will their nation crumble apart, as a wicked dictator overthrows their courage?
Season Three: Lena Bodner has never been in such desperate circumstances. With her sister Elizabeth still captive, her nation falling apart, and her beloved childhood friend, Peter, behaving as if she’s a stranger, Lena must find strength to press forward and overcome the odds. But how will she regain the trust of her nation, mend broken relationships, and live in such a way that honors the Crown resting upon her head? Will she live up to the expectations of her people? Or will Bella Adar begin to crumble beneath her leadership?
My Blurbs:
Season One: Lena is happily enjoying her sixteenth birthday when a stranger uncovers secrets from her past, learning of her heritage. Aurora Jasper, a famous popstar, suddenly learns she has a long lost sister, who just so happens to be Amish! With Aurora living in a fishbowl, how will she keep her newfound secrets safe?
Season Two: The sisters are reunited after their brief separation, and Elizabeth has a strong feeling she had been disowned, but she knows she must help her sisters to save their country. but with all the attacks and the media hounding her sister for every detail, how will they be able to keep their secret safe from the evil King Raymond?
Season Three: With a Nation in shaky circumstances, Lena must earn the trust of the Bella Adarian citizens before things get worse. With her sister still captive, Aurora’s tour canceled and thousands of fans disapointed and wanting answers, Lena knows that she must act quickly to mend not only several broken relationships-and hearts-but also her crumbling country.
My Rating:
💓💗💖💗💓
🥰5 stars/hearts🥰
🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟
And on to the Review!
What I thought: I really like this series! Like a lot! It has a bunch of my favorite tropes and things, and feels exactly like the kind of story I want to write (I kind of am👀, but I started mine before I found out about Livy’s. Check mine out here) Oliva is a Christian Author, and you can totally tell because most of her characters are Christians and everything is super clean and really enjoyable.
Things to be aware of: NOTHING!!!!! This is probably what makes this series so good!! There is nothing that you need to be concerned about, unless you don’t like the female characters talking/thinking about guys. (Or if you think that *SPOILER* sixteen year old girls shouldn’t be eating Ice cream and dancing on tables with sixteen year old boys in ice cream parlors at nine in the morning! *END SPOILER*)
Aurora might be a character to watch specifically because of her funny and ridiculous interest in boys. It is not in a bad way, but if you (or your parents, in the extremely rare case that they are very specific on what you can and can’t read) don’t like the minor flirting and whatever else she does, just beware that this does contain some of that, but it wasn’t bad at all and was actually quite funny.
Alright, actually, there is some talk about death. The evil King Raymond does kill *SPOILER* Lena’s Grandmother, little brother, and the girls’ parents, as well as many other people. *END SPOILER* They are not descriptive at all, she is just stating that they are dead and there are dead bodies lying there, but there is no description and it is totally non gory, and all in all it just made me want to cry.
Okay, you caught me again. There is a slight romance. but it is pretty brief and kind of made me feel bad for the guy. (read the spoiler if you want to find out why, but if you are planning on reading these books, don’t, and just look back later when your done if you really want to know. *SPOILER* Peter proposes to Lena in Season two, but Lena is not sure what to say and leaves him hanging for awhile. *END SPOILER*
And my favorites, because I really do enjoy this series.
Character: Emma and Arden. While these two are really side characters, Oliva writes it in such a way that they both almost feel like main characters. The two are so funny together (they are just friends, guys, sheesh) and Emma feels almost like me. She loves to read, people watch, and apparently likes acting (randomly.) (I tap dance, not act, but it is fun to be in a play, although the only one I have ever been in is one me and my friend wrote and directed; it was chaotic but fun, and was Cinderella, but that is another story for another day) Anyways.
My favorite part: I cant pick. there are just way too many. that being said because each book is like 400 pages long and there are three of them so it is just waaaaayyyy to long to pick a favorite part. I do like the parts with Eleanor, she seems like a kindred spirit. (even though I don’t ride horses) She is such a down-to-Earth girl and a spunky character.
Alright! Enough from me! Go walk outside or something, go read! Enjoy your day/week!
Have you ever read Regal Hearts? If not, will you now? If you have, comment and let me know what you like about it!
-Jane Elise
