Genre: Romance

Pages: 418

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Overall rating:

GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince.

As President Claremont kicks off her re-election bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?

MY REVIEW:

I am going to be completely honest: I had absolutely no intention of reading this book. Romance is not my favourite book genre, and although I do occasionally enjoy reading it, with my 10-page long TBR, I didn’t think it was worth it. Then I joined booktok. And it was everywhere. That’s when I discovered that its enemies to lover and I HAD to buy it. Now, I don’t mean to exaggerate, but it was possibly the best decision of my life.

I was not going to review this book, because there isn’t much to say other than ‘it was perfect’, but for the sake of my blog, I shall elaborate. This book is written in third person, from Alex’s point of view. I loved Alex, and most of the other characters too. They were all incredibly well-written and memorable, and what I really loved was that they were all dealing with their own issues. The characters were also really diverse, without it seeming forced.

This was probably the funniest book I’ve ever read. The dialogue was witty and hilarious, and one of the best parts of the book. The pop culture references were *chef’s kiss*. I know of a few books who overdid the pop culture references to a point of frustration, but I thought it was perfectly done in this novel.

Now, Henry and Alex. HENRY AND ALEX. I loved it. The romance was impeccably written. I have read a few enemies to lovers’ novels before, and usually the characters are overly rude to each other in the beginning, or they barely even hated each other. This was, fortunately, neither. Alex and Henry’s banter in the beginning was entertaining to read, and definitely one of the reasons I couldn’t put the book down.

This book also includes quite a bit of politics, since Alex is the son of the first female US president, but I didn’t find it confusing or overdone, and it just added to how good the book was, even if the ending was slightly predictable. I also thought it was great that the book had a storyline other than just Henry and Alex’s relationship.

It’s a very fast paced novel, so even if you are a slow reader, you should be able to finish it within a matter of days. The writing is beautiful and flows really well, and there is a never a dull moment, which I think is pretty impressive considering this is the authors debut novel.

I honestly just really enjoyed this book and definitely recommend that everyone reads it. Immediately. 😊

Until next time

Jenna