2. Book Review

Title: Tokyo ever after
Author: Emiko Jean

Suitable for readers who love: contemporary romance, young adult,and princess diaries.

This became one of the most anticipated book for me ever since I started hearing people raving about this in booktube.

Finally I read it and I’m soooo glad that I’m not disappointed!!this was soo good and so much better than I expected it to be.

The story is similar to princess diaries which has an asian american as the main lead and this itself was enough for me to pick it up.

The story starts of with our protagonist Izzumi who lives in America with her mom.Her life is a small circle which includes her mom and the asian girl gang(the AGG),Izzumi’s best and only friends.

All of this is until she finds out that her father is the crown Prince of Japan!!and so she is a REAL PRINCESS.She is whisked away to Japan to stay with her father and learn about the royal customs and rules.

This is where the real story starts…fast-paced,royal politics, jealous cousins,a forbidden love, difficulties of being a royalty..ufff this book totally took me by surprise!!

“Please do not strike me
from your memory, from the
perfect shape of your
heart. Please let us carry on
as we were, against the world”

Akio is definitely my new fav book boyfriend!!He is such a kind and caring person and I just love relationship arc of Akio and Izzumi.

The AGG– How in the world can I not mention them!! According to me they are the pillars of this story and the type of best friends everyone wish to have.

“I search for my bag
and my eyes catch on a bright pink sign. Welcome home
from the hospital! The rash cleared up, yay! Three girls are
smiling and wave frantically—Noora, Hansani, and Glory”

This story displays about the royal politics, romance, friendship, mother-daughter relationship and much more in a perfect mix.

“The Imperial Household Law
stipulates that only men whose fathers are emperors may
inherit the throne. However, some scholars may argue that
such law violates the principle that men and women be
treated equally as set forth in Article 14 of the constitution”

There is also the imperial family tree which helps a lot if you are confused about the relationship between the characters,

Overall this is definitely a satisfied summer read for me. Hope you guys love it as much as I did.