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Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Well, this was an interesting read right before the 2020 U.S. Presidential election!  There are parts in this that are hilarious, heartbreaking, and harrowing.  You have a romance story involving politics, and in both the book and in real life, the election of 2020 is super stressful!  (In the book, if the incumbent president loses, she steps down and a gross white man takes her place. In real life, if the incumbent president wins, thousands more people will needlessly die.  A bit more stressful for […]

Can’t compete with Red, White, and Royal Blue

The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

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When American college student Rebecca “Bex” Porter enrolls in a semester abroad at Oxford, she finds herself living on the same floor as Prince Nicholas, grandson of Queen Eleanor of England. Bex and Nick quickly become friends, only to accidentally fall in love. But young love is difficult, especially when one is heir to the throne. Will Prince Nick and Bex get their happily ever after, or will a secret tear them apart? The Royal We started off great; the first third was fun and […]

Better than the others, but still not a book I loved

A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

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3.5 stars Naledi “Ledi” Smith’s parents died when she was very little, and she was shuffled through a series of foster homes her entire childhood. She learned to rely on no one but herself. When she keeps getting persistent e-mails about some African country named Thesolo and how she’s the crown prince’s intended, she obviously assumes that these communications are spam and deletes them all. Now she’s working hard to get her degree in epidemiology and waitressing on the side, in between worrying about her […]

I think I loved it even more on a re-read

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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My original, and extremely enthusiastic review of this book, can be found here. This was my first re-read (of what I’m sure will be many) and this time, I chose to listen to the audio book. When I first listened to the sample available on Audible, I was honestly not sure if I liked Ramon de Ocampo’s narration, but after seeing the audio book of this highlighted on a bunch of best of the year lists, I decided to give him a chance. Of course, the […]

A Charming Romp Through Victorian England

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

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Oh boy, it looks like I have a new author to follow! In her first novel, Evie Dunmore dives into the academic world of Oxford, royalty, and Parliament in the heart of the Victorian era. What follows is an absolutely charming romp into the stifled world of upper-crust society featuring class-crossed lovers.  Our heroine is Annabelle, a young woman who is unmarried and headstrong who finds herself stuck. She gets into the newly formed woman’s college at Oxford thanks to a scholarship sponsored by the […]

The most enjoyable book I’ve read so far this year

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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#CBR11 Bingo: I Love This First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between […]



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