Reviews with content warning for Alcohol - American Prince

Definitely higher stakes than Book 1, this one felt grittier and filthier and honestly I'm anxious from it. I feel silly being this invested in a Kindle Unlimited trashy romance novel, but the characters are so beautifully, horribly intertwined (literally, sometimes--some of the stuff they get up to is downright acrobatic), and the emotional depth to these character's struggles and backstories is so rich that I forget that this is lowkey just smut with a plot. This book, at least, felt a lot more plot-heavy than Book 1.

Main issues keep coming back to

the characterization of Abilene. This character is arguably a horrible person and has been for years, and Greer just keeps like, forgetting the horrible stuff she did? She literally sells her cousin/best friend to a hostile nation to be raped!!! because she's jealous that Greer married the guy she had a crush on in high school. And Greer realizes Abi is behind it within the first couple of chapters and is still like, oh well, I don't want to accuse her of something this bad! That would be rude :/"

I also hate hate hate the trope of miscommunication but the author pulls it off so damn well in this series so far--like yes, could things be better if the characters were upfront and honest about their problems and feelings? Yes but as the author points out, if they hadn't suffered in silence for literal years there wouldn't be a story to tell. My other main criticism is just that I'm not into BDSM lol, I find the pain and submission part offputting and it makes it hard to keep reading through the smutty chapters, but I literally knew what I was getting into when I read the second book in a series about a damn BDSM reverse harem.

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Wow, this book really had some twists to it. We are also left off on a slight cliffhanger that makes me so sad, but I’m dying to know more. I loved finally getting to understand Embry a little bit better in this book. He is such a tragic and tortured soul that my heart just broke for him for all the secrets he keeps. I won’t say the decisions he makes at the end of the book, but I really hope he doesn’t go through with it. I have a feeling the next book will be full of tears.

I did get kind of annoyed with Embry’s back and forth and his tortured emotions. It got kind of old by the ending. I get why he wouldn’t give himself what he really wanted throughout his life, but there wasn’t a bunch of dynamic character change throughout his book. Maybe we will see more in the next book, but that book is from Ash’s perspective so I’m not sure we will get the full understanding of it.

Despite getting annoyed at Embry’s behavior, this book was as beautifully written as American Queen was and has even more thrilling action and romance. This book was absolutely full of interesting plot and the next book (also the last in the trilogy), American King, will likely be the same. Do note that there are some themes in this book that are triggering, definitely read the content warnings.

I absolutely recommend this book! It was a phenomenal, but dark read. I loved every plot twist, no matter how weird or horrible they were. We left on a thrilling cliffhanger to the last book in this trilogy and I’m stoked to start it.

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