I wanted to like this book so much more than I actually did.  On paper, there’s lots to love. It’s an alternate history set in present day Canada (or maybe a notch in the future) where the British Empire didn’t fall and instead the monarchy made much more humane and multicultural decisions about how to incorporate the subjects of their colonies into the Empire as a whole.  There’s still a royal family but over the years the royals have made strategic marriage alliances with their […]