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A review by linnaboobooks
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
4.0
3.5 stars.
I need more older POC romances in my life and I will continue to look for them.
While this book follows a few of the beats a lot of other Jasmine Guillory novels do (not a complaint, I consider those tropes/beats her brand), I find the take on them in this one to be pretty interesting because of the British setting and how Malcolm worked for the queen while Vivian is a social worker in America who was a single mom when she was younger. The internal struggles in this one hit different as they are from the perspective of people who are established in life because of age and other things they've gone through prior to it.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. If you like other Jasmine Guillory novels, I recommend this, especially if you wanted more of Maddie's mom. I will say this book doesn't feel too festive holiday-wise, so if you went into it for Christmas vibes or even winter ones, you're kind of out of luck.
I need more older POC romances in my life and I will continue to look for them.
While this book follows a few of the beats a lot of other Jasmine Guillory novels do (not a complaint, I consider those tropes/beats her brand), I find the take on them in this one to be pretty interesting because of the British setting and how Malcolm worked for the queen while Vivian is a social worker in America who was a single mom when she was younger. The internal struggles in this one hit different as they are from the perspective of people who are established in life because of age and other things they've gone through prior to it.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. If you like other Jasmine Guillory novels, I recommend this, especially if you wanted more of Maddie's mom. I will say this book doesn't feel too festive holiday-wise, so if you went into it for Christmas vibes or even winter ones, you're kind of out of luck.