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alyssaindira 's review for:

American Royals by Katharine McGee
3.0

**NO MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS REVIEW**

"“Relationships never make sense from the outside; the only people qualified to weigh in on them are the people in them.”

Goodness...the amount of angst and drama in this book....I swear. The audiobook just makes it so I have to live throguh everybit of it because i cannot skim. The drama is insane. I feel like it was even worse than ancient politicial intrigue...because of the modern elements like socialmedia and such...my goodness...I wanted to both hate and love the drama...lmao, which is how I feel about drama in real life. I am unsure what the exact plot of this novel was, it just seemed like several characters storylines weaving and interwining, and half the characters i didnt even care about...

The thing that definitely made the story were the characters, obviously. I cannot comment much on the writing, since I diddo the audiobook, but I feel like if I had read the book I would have skimmed throguh several sections because some of the proses did seem long and weighty but with the audiobook that sped it up. I think my favorite character was Ethan, lmaooooo, and he wasnt even a main dude. Ethan and Connor, the men who deserved more. Seriously. I dont know what Ethan saw in daphne, but he definitely deservedbetter.
And my sweet connor, he deserve all the love in the world, and while i washoping for a guard romance, i dont know...
As for the actual main characters... Beatice has alot on her plate to deal with and its only natural for her to spin out and cling to what she knows. She was under alot of pressure and i admire her trying to keeep her wits about her. But i also was rooting for a guard romance, lmao
Sam is just,,,i dont know. WIld and reckless but she deserved a chance at love to.
Nina was likeable aswell, just an ordinary girl sucked into the royal life. She didnt ask for fame, but it found her nonetheless. I admired how down to earth she tried to be, despite everything thrown at her.
Jefferson was an idioi to be honest...i think he just kinda of liked attention and didnt really care much about anything else...
I hated daphne and dreaded her chapters. I have no sympathy forher and she can just be yeeted for all i care.Thank you for coming to my ted talk