


Callum promises to see her through to college and pay for anything she wants or desires, if only she will live with him and allow him to care for her. Ella is then plucked from poverty and strip clubs and sent to live with Callum in his remarkable mansion. But then Callum Royal appears, a man who says he was best friends with her unknown, and now late, father. Struggling to make ends meet, and determined to climb out of the gutter, Ella is fiercely resolute and wants nothing more than to make something of herself, especially after the death of her mother. The novel follows Ella Harper, who has spent her entire life flitting from town to town with her unreliable mother. What followed was two days of confusion, occasional interest, boredom and antagonism. This book was recommended to me by several people, so I went out and borrowed it immediately. It felt like almost all of my Goodreads friends had read, devoured, and fallen in love with this novel and the subsequent series.

Paper Princess had been stalking me for many months. Sometimes I look around at my surroundings and think, I don’t belong here.” Sometimes that feels too young to have lived the life I have.
