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racheln23 's review for:
American Royals
by Katharine McGee
This definitely has a crazy rich Asians feel to it, but it is distinctly different. Everyone is in a love triangle, which is actually more like a love pyramid. A few things could be improved upon: the hinting at sex always disturbs me in novels that appeal to high schoolers, especially when there are under age characters. There was a lot of hinting at sex which actually did not turn out to be sex. So on one hand, it’s nice that the author did not make everyone totally sleezey, but at the same time, she leaves you with the impression of sex many times (for example, the author says a character caught another character in bed with another girl, but later we discover there was no sex). Lastly, daphne’s character had an editing flaw; we initially hear that she never drank alcohol because of the damage it could do to her image, and then later in the book we read a flashback how she does two things totally against her initial stance on drinking 1. She habitually put sparkling water in a margarita cup at parties (if she was so conscious about not appearing to drink, why would she parade around with a margarita cup?) 2. We find out she did get drunk before.
I did think of one other editing flaw, and I could be wrong: I swear Bea mentioned her parents were as young as she was in that moment of narration (so, 22ish) when she was born, so her parents should be 42ish. Later we hear the king is 50 or 55? Somewhere around that. I didn’t take time to go research, and I could just have taken my impressions and miscalculated.
I did think of one other editing flaw, and I could be wrong: I swear Bea mentioned her parents were as young as she was in that moment of narration (so, 22ish) when she was born, so her parents should be 42ish. Later we hear the king is 50 or 55? Somewhere around that. I didn’t take time to go research, and I could just have taken my impressions and miscalculated.