Rina Kent: Steel Princess

 Royal Elite Book 2 --> Part 2 of Aiden & Elsa's story 

blog post for book 1 in this series:  https://elbyslibrary.blogspot.com/2026/02/rina-kent-deviant-king.html

goodreads link:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225098842-steel-princess

Since this is a series of 3 books I'm just going to put the book blurb here then my thoughts about the book at the bottom:

The princess isn’t supposed to dethrone the king.

Elsa
He said he’ll destroy me, and he did.
I might have lost the battle, but the war is far from over.
They say it starts with one move to dethrone the king.
No one mentioned he’ll yank me with him on the way down.

Aiden
If Steel’s little princess wants a war, then war it is.
There’s only one rule: my rules or none at all.
By all means, show me what you got, sweetheart.

*Sports romance (football/soccer) *High school bully  *spice *enemies --> more  *miscommunication/no-communication    *touch her and 💀 *Dual POV  

 *check your trigger warnings there are loads  *repressed memories  *PTSD  *Possessive MMC

*lots of secrets  *family drama

Thoughts:

This book starts off where the last book ends Elsa has overheard a conversation that she was never meant to hear between a few people close to Aiden and begins to spiral while she tries to separate herself from Aiden he is relentless between playing mind games with her and telling her that she is going to be with him forever... seriously over the top for a teenage boy.

Elsa wonders about her past and overhears conversations between her guardians (aunt & uncle) related to her past and memories might be coming back and begins to wonder if anyone is telling her the truth in her life.  She has repressed memories and goes to her psychiatrist to see if she can try to unblock these memories as she's been getting glimpses in her dreams (nightmares).

While in this book we do get a bit more of her back story... it really isn't enough as most of it is spent with spicy times between our leads... oh to be young again!  To be honest the actual plot progression wasn't all that much and led me to wonder why their story line needed to be spread over 3 books since the spice was over powering.

I did ruin what happened for myself in this book and the next one because I'm a mood reader and skipped ahead to the 4th & 5th books which give away some of the story from these books but I also did this because some of the trigger warnings were hard for me to read through.

Aiden and Elsa's relationship thru this one is on the toxic side they both make each other jealous throughout the book get upset, sometimes give each other the silent treatment for a bit... then they meet back up and go at it like rabbits.  

While I'm invested in this series at this point and plan to continue to read the third book in their story line this book felt like filler a lot of repetitive scenes with the same outcomes and we are back to square 1 again.