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  American Royalty   by Tracey Livesay This book is out TODAY! Read my full review of it  HERE . 👑  👑  👑  In theory, this is right up my alley. I love royal romances! I was excited that it was an interracial couple, intrigued by the similarities to Harry & Meghan. But in practice, I was bored stiff. Major yawn. I could not get into this. I ended up DNFing at 50%. I wanted to like the characters but never did, just didn’t enjoy the story, and thought the technical aspect of the writing could stand some improvement. It felt a little rudimentary and didn’t do anything to elevate the material. There were no romantic parts in the first half of the book and the sexy parts were… weird. I never got to a point where I wanted to root for these people to get together. Once they started having a sexual relationship, I still couldn’t understand why they were interested in one another. Circling back to the royal comparisons, if The Royal We gave us Will & K...

 American Royalty  by Tracey Livesay Pub date: June 28, 2022 🚫 DNF @ 50% 🚫 Because I did not finish this book, I don't want to call this a review, but I do have a lot of thoughts which I have constructed as coherently as possible below. If you read this book, I'd love to know your thoughts on it! 👑👑👑 So if The Royal We  gave us Will & Kate fanfic, this one is giving us Harry & Meghan - or trying to. In fact, the blurb on the back of the book makes a direct comparison to Harry & Meghan's royal romance. I just have to say that right from the very first page, there is little similarity between the book's FMC "Duchess" and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. The book is about a British prince who marries a Black American woman and that's pretty much the only similarity as far as I could tell. Dani "Duchess" Nelson is a rapper and hip-hop star who is more akin to Cardi B. Her lyrics are raunchy, her videos are lewd. But she's ti...

 As of right now, I have 6 ARCs waiting to be reviewed on NetGalley, all with release dates in May, June, and July, so I thought I would give you a heads up on what you can look forward to seeing here in the near future.  Each book is pictured below with its tentative release date so expect to see its review here sometime in the 4 weeks prior to that date.  Are there any here you’re particularly excited about?