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the-forest-library · 20 days
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New Young Adult Releases! (August 29th, 2023)
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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!
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New Standalones/First in a Series:
A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban
Pride & Prejudice & Pittsburg by Rachael Lippincott
Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt
After You Vanished by E.A. Neeves
The Reunion by Kit Frick
My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
What Happened On Hicks Road by Hannah Jayne
Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim
The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu
Night of the Living Queers by Various
House of Marionne by J. Elle
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen
I Feed her to the Beast & the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
More Than A Thief by Beverly Patt
Let's Never Speak of this Again by Megan Williams
New Sequels:
Never A Hero (Monsters #2) by Vanessa Len
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Reign (American Royals #4) by Katharine McGee
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Happy reading!
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“this was one of those instances where the English language fell short. The word for losing something insignificant-a baseball game, a library card-shouldn't be the same as for losing someone who defines you, someone you love. There should be a word for losses you can recover from, and a different word for the life-shattering losses, the ones that leave you forever changed.” 🥲
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Samantha Washington + Marshall Davies
Samantha had never felt this way about anyone before—like she was grateful to the world simply because Marshall was in it, and at the same time like she wanted to make the world better because Marshall was in it. She loved him. It was as simple as that.
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Series info:
Book 1 of American Royals
Book 2: Majesty
Book 3: Rivals
Book 4: Reign
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Katharine McGee needs to stop trying to redeem Daphne here. I'm a Daphne stan because she's morally repugnant not because she has a secret emotional side
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Title: American Royals
Author: Katharine McGee
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2019
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, fantasy
Blurb: When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either...except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince...but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart.
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thepaige-turner · 1 year
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Caught up on the rest of the American Royals series a couple months ago and I can’t wait for book four to come out!
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the-final-sentence · 1 year
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‘I don’t know what’s going to happen, but when it’s all over and the dust has settled, this country will never be the same again.’
Katharine McGee, from Rivals 
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indynerdgirl · 2 years
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Dear Katharine McGee,
WHAT WAS THAT ENDING IN RIVALS?????? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME??? BECAUSE THAT SHIT IS SO NOT COOL. I NEED BOOK FOUR RIGHT NOW.
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rphelperblog · 2 years
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Book by Katharine Mcgee- feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes
“Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”
“Tell no one your secrets but make them think that you have. It creates the illusion of intimacy.” 
“Relationships never make sense from the outside; the only people qualified to weigh in on them are the people in them.” 
“Sorry isn't a magic eraser that undoes whatever wrong thing you did! You can't just say sorry and expect everything to be the way it was, not when people have been hurt!” 
“The only people free from censure are people who’ve never taken a stand.” 
“I think you're too clever for your own good” 
“Everything seemed to go luscious, and slow, and still.” 
“Despite how progressive America claimed to be, there was still a sexist double standard quietly underpinning everything.” 
“Only you would daydream about a library meet-cute.” 
“I wish I had someone I could turn to for guidance. But all I can do is pray.” 
“I’m a commoner.”
“It was so much easier to break an arm than to break your heart. Hearts didn’t heal themselves. Hearts didn’t remake themselves stronger than before.” 
“Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.” 
“Yes, exactly, because you’re a woman, and the world will make everything exponentially more difficult for you. It isn’t right, or fair, but it is the truth.” 
"It kills me that I don't have more to offer you,"
“Real love comes from creating a family together, from facing life together -- with all its messes and surprises and joys.” 
“Writers got to pick the endings of their novels, but she wasn’t living a story. She was living history, and history went on forever.” 
"I have no lands, no fortune, no title. All I can give you is my honor, and my heart. Which already belongs to you."
"I'm sorry it isn't a real ring, but I'm improvising here."
“That was the thing about success, it could be even more draining than failure.” 
That was the only word for it: known. Not hoped to marry, or dreamed of marrying, or even felt destined to marry. Those words involved an element of chance, of uncertainty.” 
“to the people, go out begging for votes—that could only end in disaster. That structure would attract the wrong sort of people: power-hungry people with twisted agendas.” 
“It feels like half my internal monologue has suddenly switched off.”
“I came in here to seduce you,“and then I cried all over you instead.”
“You’re going to be an amazing first queen. If this was a world where people could, I don’t know, vote for their monarch, I know that America would still pick you. I would pick you.”
“a good queen learns from her mistakes, but a great one learns from the mistakes of others.” 
“There was something too immediate about her face, the way all her emotions played themselves out over her features like the shadows of clouds on water.”
“Coatroom, five minutes”
“All I’ve ever done for America is give and give and give, and still America wants more! When will it ever be enough?” 
“woman. Or maybe it would have been better if America had never been a monarchy at all, and had some other form of government.” 
criticism is a good thing. It means you've fought for something.” 
Our nation’s history is woven from their errors in judgment, their wrong decisions, as much as it is from their achievements.” 
“All I know is that when I need to eat my feelings, my feelings taste like Wawa milkshakes with extra M&Ms.” 
She, too, was bound by a sacred oath.” 
“There was a nebulous, infectious energy to her, as if she were somehow more *alive* than everyone else. As if all her nerves were sparking at once, just below the surface.” 
“Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past—or worse, trying to rewrite it—is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”
Just because she'd been brought up to keep her emotions hidden didn't mean that she never experienced those emotions.” 
They were being reckless and foolish; they were tempting fate; they were breaking the rules; they were falling in love.But they both knew that last wasn't true. They had already fallen in love, a long time ago.” 
“I’m America’s Sweetheart,” 
“She hated resorting to this—planting deliberate, self-promotional stories—but she wasn’t sure what else to do.” 
She had long ago resolved that if she couldn't be beautiful, she should at the very least be interesting.” 
“This was how a kiss was supposed to feel—electric and pulsing and smoky all at once, like you'd discovered a new source of fuel that could warm you from within.”
“They were living fragments of history. Each time she put one on, Sam felt the ghosts of her ancestors whispering to her across the fabric of centuries. The rings made her feel more confident, even majestic.” 
“But sometimes—when newspapers accused her of “getting emotional,” whatever that meant, or when the media spent more time critiquing her outfits than her policies—she wished she could act with a little less grace and a little more aggression.”
“I expect you to give her your support when she's earned it and your criticism when she deserves it. That's what siblings are for, after all.” 
“All she knew was that one day she woke up and her love for him was simply there, like newly fallen snow. Maybe it had been there all along.”
she had been trained to smile through anything.Even through her own heartbreak.” 
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bebe-benzenheimer · 10 months
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I just saw big fat spoilers for Reign from someone with an ARC in the Goodreads reviews and do feel a little pissed. You couldn't wait three months?!
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therubyreader · 1 year
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My Review of American Royals by Katharine McGee
See a full list of my book reviews here
Review Word Count: 1,195
I know this is usually where I put my spoiler warning for my reviews but since I have decided that based on the nature of this book there aren't any major plot points that I want to talk about so this review will be spoiler free.
I will give this disclaimer though, if you're a die hard fan of this book then this review isn't for you. That isn't to say I'm going to drag this book through hell and back, but it honestly wasn't my cup of tea. I will be talking about the things in this book that I personally didn't like so if you don't want to see your favorite book besmirched by some random bitch on tumblr dot com then please keep scrolling.
On to the review!
American Royals gives all of us history nerds a peek into an alternate reality where George Washington became the king of the United States instead of its first president and how that would look in modern day. In this reality we also see how the peerage system works in the States and also how many monarchies in other parts of the world have survived. For example the French and Russian monarchies and the German principalities are alive and well in this book which was a very interesting touch that I enjoyed.
The book centers around the lives of the modern royals, Crown Princess Beatrice who is set to be America's first queen regnant, her younger sister Princess Samantha who is the exact opposite of Beatrice and suffers from an extreme case of middle child syndrome coupled with spare syndrome, and Samantha's twin Prince Jefferson a.k.a. Jeff (side note I think the name Jeff is gross and I agree with Daphne on calling him Jefferson) who is quite literally just there, chilling.
Now while I was intrigued with the concept of an alternate reality where the United States is a monarchy I honestly did not expect the book to go the way that it did. I know that just writing what life would be like with an American monarchy wouldn't sell and would be extremely boring, but let me tell you I didn't not expect to essentially get into a written telenovela. You get all of the classic traits of a novela, three (or maybe four, depends on how you count it) love triangles stacked on top of each other, betrayal, romance, dramatics, and then someone just randomly dying to advance the plot. What more can you want?
I say that but in reality I wasn't really a fan of it. Sure if you like soap operas and reality tv this book is for you, but I'm not really a fan of either so I honestly got to a point at the end where all of the plot points converged and it all just got so overwhelming for me that I struggled to finish the last, like 10% of the book. That being said I'm not going to keep reading this series, though I did Google if Beatrice ended up with my favorite boy Connor just because he was my favorite and I needed to know.
Speaking of characters I actually enjoyed all of them, I was just kind of annoyed with the insane amount of love triangles happening to them. I honestly didn't hate Daphne, I don't condone literally any of her actions because she was evil but I sympathized with her motives. In the words of a wise man, "cool motive, still murder," (no she didn't murder anyone btw, but that would've been a great plot point).
Though if you read my Gods of Jade and Shadow review you might expect my favorite character to be Nina, in Latina solidarity, but she might've actually been my least favorite character. Actually her and Daphne are tied in that spot. Main reason being how they're both juxtaposed in their endeavors to win over Jefferson, and I really want to tell them it is quite literally not that serious. We get some not very feminist differences between them, Nina is "not like other girls" and a normal girl while Daphne is the embodiment of femininity and has the makings of a princess. Also Jeff fully cheated on Daphne and then broke up with her over the phone the next day and then tried to get at Nina. And then he proceeded to play with both of their emotions and yet both of these girls were fighting over him? Those are some serious red flags, I'm going to need these girls to get up, they deserve better.
I did honestly like the relationship between Beatrice and Sam, you get to see how they're opposites for the same reason, if that makes sense. Beatrice is meant to be the next queen so she has to be perfect and because Sam is the spare she wants to be the opposite of Beatrice and a party girl who's impulsive and puts herself first. I genuinely enjoyed their dynamic and how they play off of one another.
I didn't like Jeff at all, which honestly he might be my least favorite character and Nina and Daphne get the spot right above him. Literally this dude contributes nothing to the plot besides being there for two girls to fight over him and have their own character growth because of him. It's not very feminism or Bechdel test of them (though they do have a conversation which might pass if I remember correctly). The author even tells us in the story that Sam and Jeff are supposed to be very close but we don't see it, there's only maybe two instances where you can see their close bond but really nothing beyond that. Also there is literally no interactions between Jeff and Beatrice despite them being siblings, and I get that part of the plot is that they're not super close with her and they haven't been since they were kids but like come on, they couldn't have had at least one conversation in the whole book.
I do feel like the book was definitely marketed more towards a teen audience which is partially what I get for being a grown ass adult (I'm only in my early 20s so like technically I'm closer in age to a 19 year old than a 30 year old) reading YA fiction. But either way even if I was still a teen I don't think I would've enjoyed the book more than I do now, partially due to me being a weird kid who liked to consume media that was action heavy rather than romance heavy, which honestly still holds true to this day. I will say the book isn't bad, it's just honestly not for me, I can appreciate the writing and imagination that comes with creating this alternate reality, which major props to author for committing to doing that. Overall rating, not for me but for someone else out of ten. Even though I said I wouldn't continue to read the series if someone has a really good pitch I'll perhaps give it a shot but you have to do some serious convincing.
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Rivals - Katharine McGee (American Royals #3)
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Beatrice is queen, and for the American royal family, everything is about to change.
tw: discussions of: racism, gender roles, privilege
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dianawonder · 2 years
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my thoughts on the "american royals" series
*spoilers for book 2: majesty
i'm rereading the first book (because queen elizabeth ii's death has sent me on a royalty spiral) and with the knowledge i've gained from reading the entire series so far, it feels a bit strange.
unpopular opinion - i actually liked the relationship roulette that happened in book 2 (ask me why i think connor is a loser and teddybea is endgame) but still..... if mcgee had the intention in book 1 to shake up everyone's love interests in book 2, i think she could've done a better job of planting those seeds. like how nice would it have been if marshall/sam had a scene together in the beginning during the queen's ball, or if teddy/beatrice have at least one romantic date. give these characters something to hint at their eventual coupling up.
maybe she wanted the satisfaction of ~subverting expectations~ but in my observations, audiences don't like being played like that. reviews for majesty are the lowest in the series, and i think it turned a lot of readers off entirely. it ended up working for me, but i think the lack of tactfulness in how things unfolded in book 2 held this series back from being truly great.
i think i'll make another post detailing how i would "fix" the series, but with the power of hindsight i would definitely start by switching the events of book 3 and book 2 (beatrice steps up as a leader quicker, connor sticks around longer to see he doesn't match with beatrice "the queen", sam matures more and falls out of puppy love with teddy).
anywayyy i'm really curious to see how mcgee wraps things up in book 4. tbh i'm kinda nervous she's gonna try to subvert expectations again or retcon everything from book 2. whatever happens i'm gonna need a netflix adaptation announcement by the end of it!
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mooncrvmbs · 2 years
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american royals shouldn't even be a book, let alone a book of 464 pages, let alone a book with 2 sequels of another 400 pages each
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