📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Tokyo Dreaming
AUTHOR: Emiko Jean @emikojeanbooks
Publisher: Flatiron Books @flatiron_books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: May 31, 2022
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The Review 📚 Tokyo Dreaming
✨ Can Izumi be the perfect princess?
💜 We continue to follow Izumi in this sequel to Tokyo Ever After. She feels pressured to be the perfect princess so the Imperial Household will approval of her parents pending wedding. But will she lose herself in the process?
💥Of the 2 books, this one was my favorite. Izumi loses love, but gains a fake boyfriend. She has to deal with her perfect cousins, even with their mean girl behavior. That relationship arc was probably my favorite part of the book. However I was really not happy about some of the relationship decisions toward the end, but that was just a personal preference.
My face at the end: 😊
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from @Netgalley and Flatiron Books.
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📘 Summary 📚 Tokyo Dreaming
Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After
When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, she’s overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend. Her stinky dog, Tamagotchi, is living with her in Tokyo. Her parents have even rekindled their college romance and are engaged. A royal wedding is on the horizon! Izumi’s life is a Tokyo dream come true.
Only…
Her parents’ engagement hits a brick wall. The Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage citing concerns about Izumi and her mother’s lack of pedigree. And on top of it all, her bodyguard turned boyfriend makes a shocking decision about their relationship. At the threat of everything falling apart, Izumi vows to do whatever it takes to help win over the council. Which means upping her newly acquired princess game.
But at what cost? Izumi will do anything to help her parents achieve their happily ever after, but what if playing the perfect princess means sacrificing her own? Will she find a way to forge her own path and follow her heart?