Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

It wasn't the worst thing I've ever read but I didn't like it much, I read more than 40% but I DNF. The premise sounded quite interesting but there's just stuff about it that doesn't work. We jump in and I had the feeling I was supposed to know and care about these characters already? Wouldn't have been better to see the bond develop between Amelia and Ethan from the beginning, since the day he was hired? I feel like a missed several chapters. Like I was thrown in the middle of it.
Also, I know it's fiction and all but it's a royal family and the guard, the princess, the king and queen seem to be talking too informally with each other for my taste maybe? No protocol or something? Too casual. They didn't feel much like royalty..any of them.

The pacing felt weird.. everything seemed to be happening so fast. After 16% mark it got a little better but at one point it went back to being hard to follow, and it continues to be like that. It became kinda flat too(?) even though so much was happening, I wasn't on the edge on my seat..I was bored and other than a couple of scenes, I didn't feel invested in the characters or what was happening.
The way the characters were behaving often felt like it didn't make much sense to me.

I wasn't satisfied with this book but I will probably give this author another chance in the future. There's definitely room for improvement.

3.5 stars
Overall, this book was a cute princess x bodyguard romance, but the writing style was a little weird, with the main character thing of something, like "she is probably going to be our tour guide" and then the pearson would said the same thing, and the dialogues were often unrealistic.

Also, the royal family accepted the princess relationship with her bodyguard way to easily, and it wasn't really forbidden romance.

In my opinion, this book is more a ya book than a na book, and I would recommend it to people who are 14+.

For the past ten years, Princess Amelia has not spoken a word. Not since that fateful time when she and her twin sister Ava were kidnapped and Amelia saw her sister murdered and the reason the kidnappers gave, was because Amelia talked. This rendered her mute and she shut down completely. That is until Agent Ethan Sparks came along and he sparked (no pun intended) something in Amelia. Slowly, she starts to come out of her shell, and to the surprise of everyone, she even starts to slowly talk. What happens though when she is about to get the fright of her life and learns that everything, she has thought for the past ten years has been a lie? Now Amelia who has only just come to terms with the past is about to have Pandora's Box re-opened and a can of worms is about to spill out. Can Amelia with the help of Ethan handle this or will it revert her to not talking and lead her into a depressive state and render her mute forever? Find out in this edgy royalty romance The Selective Mute Princess by Samantha Jayne Grubey.

This was a great book and one that I will for sure love always! I really liked the way you could tell how Mia felt even though she didn’t speak for a number of chapters and the bond that she and Ethan had was really, really deep (I was surprised with their history later on in the story). As someone who, for a time, couldn’t bare to be around a lot of people, much less converse, it was nice to have a character to relate to, especially one who was a princess and had so much duties that she needed to do. Ethan was an absolute darling, and the banter and sincere, pure love he had for Mia was touching and precious. The plot, even without the romance, was well-written and there were so much shocking turns with soft moments between family melded in the plot. Mia was so strong and resilient, I couldn’t admire her more. A wonderful read and one that should be read by lovers of romance, family, and resilient women.

I love the concept of this story, the idea is great! But unfortunately I'm not the biggest fan of how it turned out.
I would have loved to have read about the start of when Ethan became the Princesses guard. Although the first part of the book was probably my favourite. I did like the growing fondness between Amelia and Ethan and I loved the way he took care of her. Some of those early scènes where really cute.
The rest of the story feels a bit chaotic and unrealistic for me. Also the language doesn’t always feels fitted for certain characters. For example the way her mother the Queen sometimes spoke.

I do have to say that it isn't boring, there happens a lot. But maybe it would have been better to have a little less hapening but with more dept.
It wasn't a terrible book, but I probably wouldn't read it a second time.

This was a surprising tale that took twists and turns. It was quite intriguing so of course I had to read it in one sitting.

This book is well written and the forbidden romance between a princess and body guard drew me in, but I found myself eventually skimming over some of the less eventful pages. I did like that the author in a way drew attention to how trauma can manifest as more than one thing, as this princesses manifested as selective mutism.

Okay, this was actually 3.5 stars for me.
The book is written well and the bodyguard/princess forbidden aspect is what initially drew me in but I quickly found myself skimming pages.

Ten years ago, Princess Amelia/Mia and her sister were kidnapped from the one place they were supposed to be safe. Amelia survived and her sister did not. When she returned she remained silent much to the frustration of her parents who are trying to prepare her to one day take the throne. She's also heavily guarded.

Ethan Sparks is Amelia's newest guard. The longer he's around the easier it's become for her to lean on him. He's there to soothe her after nightmares, even staying in the room so she can sleep better.

Pretty soon Amelia begins to use her voice again. Wanting to heal from the trauma of the past and finally figure out who kidnapped her and her sister.

Thanks to the author, XpressoTours, and NetGalley for the ARC to review.

This is proving to be an interesting series, it did take me a while to get into as I was a little unsure where the story was heading. I liked how Amelia has found her voice at last, the storyline sound very catchy and with potential but I found the execution to be less than desirable.

3.5 stars. This book was a quick read, and while enjoyable, was somewhat predictable. I do like the princess/bodyguard trope, but while the book was titled The Selective Mute Princess, the story behind her selective mutism stands on shaky legs. I don't want to give anything away as to the larger plot, but there are some kidnapping elements in her past that later become brought back up and, to me, this is where the story has it's flaws. It feels a bit rushed, or forced, to bring certain characters back on the scene, all while dealing with an evolving love story and the side-story with the body-guard's family. I did enjoy this book, even if it lacks the level of spice I'm used to, and would enjoy to read other stories set in this same world even.
I received an advanced reader's copy from NetGalley for free, but all opinions are my own and am leaving this review voluntarily.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. These are my honest thoughts and feelings about this book.
Sadly I DNF this book at 10%. It just wasn’t what I was expecting and I felt like you got thrown into the story a third of the way in.
This book is about a princess who got kidnapped along with her sister and then watched she sister die because she spoke so after she got recused she decided to not talk again and about how her relationship grows with her bodyguard. Sounds great right?
When you open this book the bodyguard has already been assigned to the Princess for a few months I think so we don’t get the see how the relationship between them was right away and honestly that’s the fun part (in my opinion). To watch them struggle to work together and build a friendship and then the romantic feelings start to grow but sadly we didn’t get that.
The Author notes that this book was originally a Wattpad story and to me it did really read like one. Also this book is marketed as new adult and from the little that I read I don’t know why it has that rating. More probably happens later in the books but I was surprised.

I reaaaaalllly enjoyed this book....kind of predictable and went pretty much how I expected it to go but was a good, quick read none-the-less. Took me a couple chapters to get sucked in but I liked it

After reading what this story was about I was like oh this could be interesting. And then when I read what the author wrote about this book and how much he meant to her I was like OK this is definitely gonna be really good. But then when I started to read in the chapters I could not get into it. And that really hurts to say because I really wanted to and I thought I would. Because there is a lot of books that I thought that were really good until I started reading them and I found I had to force myself to finish them and I am not gonna do that to this book. Now this is just my opinion because I got an Advanced copy from NetGalley

I enjoyed this book as a quick read. The premise of the book had a ton of promise, and I enjoyed the book for what it was.
The main characters are well rounded out and I enjoyed seeing their journey.
I think unfortunately, the fall of this book was trying to fit too much into one book. All of the conflicts made sense within the universe but they were all squished together in quick succession. I would have liked to see them spread out and fleshed out more.
A lot of the politics were glossed over quickly, and the parental relationship flip flopped too much for me.

I’m a sucker for a good nightmare comfort scene and has several of those that were swoon worthy. The relationship between the two main characters at the beginning was my favorite aspect of this story-they are so sweet to each other.

Book was good, it’s different from what I normally read, but I liked the story line and I liked how Amelia found herself and her voice as the story progressed. I would definitely recommend to others as I know it’ll be more up some other peoples alleys and they’ve love it.

When, I read the title, I thought, wow, how nice to have selective mutism representation in a book. As a parent of a child with selective mutism it is important to me that she will eventually have books with SM representation.

However, as I read the book, it became very apparent that Mia was mute due to trauma. Please do your research because traumatic mutism and selective mutism are not the same.

I ended up DNF’ing book.

I liked the idea and plot for this book but the writing was repetitive and stiff most of the time. The dialogue was choppy and the chapters sometimes ended abruptly. There were so many twists and turns I couldn't really keep everything straight. I understand wanting to keep readers on their toes but this had too much. I think if one or two big events happened and were delved into more thoroughly it would have been much easier to follow

Cute princess/bodyguard romance.

Amelia is mute, has been for 10 years ever since she and her twin sister we abducted. She was the only one who returned and she never forgets the last moments with her sister. Now the only person she opens up to and feels safe with is her bodyguard Ethan.

REMEMBER that this is just my personal opinion - you could absolutely love this book, it just may not be for me.

I felt like this was very back and forth, and it pains me to say that because I was really hoping for the best with this book. Amelia’s mom is so against her and Ethan together, then a chapter later she’s ok with them sleeping in the same bed together, to eventually talking about their babies. I felt like her language changed too from royal to not (ex. puh-lease). Ending was cute.