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xompeii's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Bullying and Sexual assault
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Grief and Abandonment
papilionna's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault
Minor: Infidelity and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
shelfselections's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Sexual assault and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
imstephtacular's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexism, Violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Bullying, Blood, and Murder
mishale1's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This book is so juicy and entertaining. I love books about the royals too, both the real royals and fictional royals. This book was an interesting alternate royal family. We all know that Queen Elizabeth wound up queen as a result of her uncle abdicating and her father becoming king. In this book, there’s a different family line because Edward never married Wally’s and never abdicated. Instead Edward got married, stayed king, and had his own heir. In this book, this king took the thrown at only 22. By 23 he was married and shortly afterwards had his heir to the throne. But most people don’t know that the king actually has two daughters: Mary (aka Maisy) who is the legitimate heir, and Evangeline (Evan) the illegitimate child he had with an American woman. The half sisters even share a birthday, but they have never met.
Evan doesn’t know her dad. She knows he is the king and has known this for years, but she can’t remember ever meeting him or even talking to him. Evan spent most of her younger years in her grandmother’s custody and when her grandmother passed she was sent to boarding school. Her mother loves her but her mother has health issues that result in her not feeling that she’s fit to be Evan’s guardian.
So, Evan hasn’t really had much of a family since she was 11. Her dad takes care of her education but that’s it.
When Evan gets expelled again, a few days before graduation, she is sent to the UK to stay with her father.
Just imagine what this would be like in the media if it happened in real life. And that’s pretty much what happens to Evan.
One night, while trying her best to bond with her hair sister, she accepts an invitation to a party. At the party, the guy that she thinks likes her actually assaults her (she isn’t raped-she gets away) but there is a dead body discovered after the party and it seems like the whole country wants to blame Evan.
This book was pure entertainment. I love Evan’s character too. I can’t wait for book two!
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
drraytay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Death, Vomit, and Alcohol
Minor: Bullying
lisashelves's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Suicide
hckilgour's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
While this is marketed as more of the murder mystery book with a hint of political intrigue, it’s the other way around. Not bad. But just not marketed correctly I feel.
Evan as a character was fun but I would’ve loved to see more of her snark.
I was surprised Maisie warmed up to her on the flip of a coin. But when you do something big to save someone’s but, I guess that happens.
The ending had me wondering what other secret Evan has. This book didn’t hint at anything so I’m completely in the dark on that.
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Suicide and Schizophrenia/Psychosis