How to Find a Princess

Finishing this for bingo reasons, but it's like 85% of the book and they just now got to the made-up country that Makeda is possibly princess of. I don't mind a slow burn but the pacing here was bizarre, with most of the time spent on a cargo ship and a ton of interchangeable characters (except the dude that's clearly setup for a third book in this series). This just absolutely did not click for me and I would probably have DNFed under non-bingo circumstances.

Adding after finishing this one: woof. The pacing is even more bizarre once they get to Ibarania, with a completely out of left field resolution to the princess/inheritance situation, and absolutely no denouement or even an epilogue. Just really weird and by far my least favorite Alyssa Cole.

(2022 Summer Romance Bingo: takes place in made-up country.)