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ARC Review: Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

New Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ+

5/5⭐️


ARC provided by Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press. The following opinions are my own.

Summoned to a royal wedding, the first family heads to England. Alex, First Son of the United States, is dreading the idea of facing his nemesis, Prince Henry. Unsurprisingly Alex promptly begins drinking to save him the pain of such a meeting and a confrontation between the two men finds them in a shoving match in which a $75,000 dollar wedding cake is decimated, the whole thing witnessed by the guests and media. In order to save face the two families have decided that they would play off the whole interaction as a mishap between friends and several meet-ups and hang out sessions are planned in which Henry and Alex will look for all the world as if they are the greatest friends. What could go wrong?

As your mother I can appreciate that maybe this isn’t your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term.

Ellen
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Review: Monstress Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu Illus. by Sana Takeda

Monstress by Marjorie Liu

Adult, Graphic Novel, Fantasy, Steampunk, Horror

3/5⭐️


Monstress Vol. 1 introduces us to a complex world of magic, steampunk, horror, and many different races of beings. Our MC, Maiko Halfwolf, is a teenage survivor of war. The story opens with Maiko on a search for the truth about her past. In doing so, she finds herself in perilous situations while her enemies are always just one step behind. She doesn’t know who, if anyone, she can trust, not even herself.

To quote the poets…We’re fucked.

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A Review: The Lies We Told by Camilla Way

IMG_3356Thank you Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for an ARC of this book. The following opinions are my own.

  • My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Release Date: October 9, 2018
  • Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery

Clara has finally moved in with her dream guy; tall, handsome, charismatic Luke Lawson. Things are really coming together for her and her happiness is limitless. Until the night Luke doesn’t come home. At first, she thinks he went out with the guys and crashed at one of their places in a drunken stupor. It becomes clear quite quickly that this isn’t the case when he misses a huge job interview. When an entire day has passed Clara becomes convinced that something is very wrong. After reporting Luke missing at the police department, she starts her own investigation at home, looking through Luke’s files and computer and that’s when she finds the emails. Many, many emails from a woman who has been stalking Luke and, towards the end, threatening his life. Clara is certain that these emails are connected to his disappearance but the police department don’t seem to be making any headway. So, Clara enlists the help of Mac, the couple’s best friend, to help her uncover and investigate the things the police won’t. What they learn paints a much different picture of Luke and his past and Clara wonders if she ever really knew him at all.

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