Moreover, this relationship was juxtaposed with the fact that Beatrice was supposed to marry Teddy, which she felt absolutely nothing for, which made the whole dynamic really interesting. It was believable and it felt very organic. More importantly, it made sense for Beatrice and Connor to fall for each other. And we spent the whole of the first book rooting for them. I absolutely loved Beatrice and Connor’s relationship in the first book. I think this made the first book obsolete and moreover, it made everything feel incredibly forced and contrived. That was American Royals 2.Īt the beginning of the novel, all of the previously established pairings and ships just get abolished, and everyone gets paired up with a new person, that was previously someone else’s partner. Out with the things that make sense, and in with absolute nonsense.

Scrap everything that happened in the first book – the relationships developed? WHO NEEDS THEM. Now imagine the second book in this series showing you a huge middle finger and doing the old switcheroo with everyone’s love interest. There’s angst, there’s pinning, there’s miscommunication and SO MANY OBSTACLES, but they’re all in love and they have to eventually end up together, right? Because everyone has great chemistry with each other and it works. Imagine that the focus of the book was the romantic relationships, there are several of them, and they’re all built up over the course of 300 pages. Imagine reading a first book in a series where you spent the entire book getting attached to the characters and their relationships with each other. Everything discussed below was in the eARC, so be aware that some things might be different in the final version. Thank you to Penguin Random House International for my eARC. Unfortunately, that was not what I got at all. So I was super excited to read its sequel because I was stressed and I deserved my Princess x Bodyguard trope played out. It definitely was not the greatest piece of fiction to ever exist, but it was just the kind of dramatic, angsty fun I needed and deserved. To be fair, the book had its faults and it started to lose its steam a bit towards the end. It was one of the most fun reading experiences I’ve had that year. I was really engaged the whole time I read it, it took me no time at all and I really got attached to the characters and their relationships. Last year I read and loved American Royals – it was a CW show in book form, dramatic, over the top, and very, very angsty.

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