Title: The Prince and the Apocalypse (The Prince and the Apocalypse #1)
Author: Kara McDowell
Genre: Young Adult, Romance
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
Format: Ebook
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
An American teen stranded in London is forced to team up with the British crown prince if she wants to make it back home before the end of the world in this delightfully rompy high-stakes rom-com.
Wren Wheeler has flown five thousand miles across the ocean to discover she’s the worst kind of traveler: the kind who just wants to go home. Her senior-year trip to London was supposed to be life-changing, but by the last day, Wren’s perfectly-planned itinerary is in tatters. There’s only one item left to check off: breakfast at The World’s End restaurant. The one thing she can still get right.
The restaurant is closed for renovations—of course—but there’s a boy there, too. A very cute boy with a posh British accent who looks remarkably like the errant Prince Theo, on the run from the palace and his controlling mother. When Wren helps him escape a pack of tourists, the Prince scribbles down his number and offers her one favor in return. She doesn’t plan to take him up on it—until she gets to the airport and sees cancelled flights and chaos. A comet is approaching Earth, and the world is ending in eight days. Suddenly, that favor could be her only chance to get home to her family before the end of the world.
Wren strikes a bargain with the runaway prince: if she’ll be his bodyguard from London to his family’s compound in Santorini, he can charter her a private jet home in time to say goodbye. Traveling through Europe by boat, train, and accidentally stolen automobile, Wren finds herself drawn to the dryly sarcastic, surprisingly vulnerable Theo. But the Prince has his own agenda, one that could derail both their plans. When life as they know it will be over in days, is it possible to find a happy ending?
Review:
Wren Wheeler traveled from Chicago to London for one last class trip before starting college in the fall, but she was plagued with homesickness and didn’t do anything she wanted to. While looking for one last breakfast to make the trip worth it, she runs into a boy who looks a lot like the missing Prince Theo. She protects Theo from photographers, and he gives her a phone number to call if she needs help. Wren rushes to the airport to catch her flight home, but when all the flights are cancelled, she learns that a comet is heading towards Earth, which will kill everyone in eight days. With no other way home, Wren calls Theo to ask him to help her get home. The two of them embark on a journey across Europe to the Royal Family’s private jet in Santorini so that Wren can get home to see her family one last time. However, Theo has his own plan and reason for running away from his family, which could derail Wren’s goal if she finds out.
This was such an exciting story! It would be a fun adventure to travel across Europe with a Royal Prince. Some of the things they did seemed unbelievable, and were things I definitely wouldn’t do (like jump off a ferry in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea), but they were fun to read about. A sequel was just announced a few weeks ago, so I had a feeling I knew how the story was going to end, but I still loved reading the twists at the end!
The Prince and the Apocalypse is a fun road trip story!
Thank you Wednesday Books for providing a digital copy of this book!
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