Hayden Stone Audiobooks

How to Date a Prince: enemies to lovers royal romance with a comic touch

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.2/5 average

107 listener ratings

Who is Hayden Stone?

Enemies to lovers, a palace, and a subtitle that leaves nothing to chance. Hayden Stone writes queer romance that is entirely comfortable being funny, and How to Date a Prince belongs to the Being Royal sequence, where royalty is played for warmth and comedy rather than solemnity.

Comedy is the distinguishing feature, and our shelving places this alongside humour as well as romance and LGBTQ+. That combination is harder to bring off than it looks: the jokes have to work without undercutting the feelings, and the romance has to survive the listener laughing at its characters. When it lands, as it does here, the result is unusually good company.

Hayden Stone in audiobooks

James Joseph narrates across nearly eleven hours, which in comic romance means sustaining timing over a long stretch rather than nailing a single set piece. Delivery matters enormously in this subgenre, and a flat reading would sink the humour entirely.

More than a hundred listeners have rated it, settling at a solid average, which suggests the comedy is landing for the audience it was written for. Being Royal is the sequence to follow if the premise appeals, and this makes a natural way in. The panel below is where to start.