Rivals (American Royals #3) by Katharine McGee

e-Audio, 12:32:01
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Release Date: May 31, 2022
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: June 21-23, 2022
American Royals, #3
Source: Library’s Libby
TW: Toxic Relationship, Death of a Parent, Drug Use, Alcoholism, Car Accidents, YA
For Readers Interested In: Royals, Drama, Romance, Alternate History, YA

      The third book in the New York Times bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyone’s loyalty to the crown…and their own hearts.
     Beatrice is queen, and for the American royal family, everything is about to change.
     Relationships will be tested.
     Princess Samantha is in love with Lord Marshall Davis—but the more serious they get, the more complicated things become. Is Sam destined to repeat her string of broken relationships…and this time will the broken heart be her own?
     Strangers will become friends.
     Beatrice is representing America at the greatest convocation of kings and queens in the world. When she meets a glamorous foreign princess, she gets drawn into the inner circle…but at what cost?
      And rivals will become allies.
     Nina and Daphne have spent years competing for Prince Jefferson. Now they have something in common: they both want to take down manipulative Lady Gabriella Madison.           Can these enemies join forces, or will old rivalries stand in the way?

*MY THOUGHTS*

Ugh I know I said I hated the last one, but still, when I saw this one coming out I had to read it to redeem the last one. And of course, I didn’t really like this one either. And it’s all because one character. Every single time. But I keep reading because I don’t want to leave off when they get it all.

I can’t lie to you, if you hate or even at the very least don’t like drama, this is not the one for you. There is nothing about this that’s not drama filled lol Like so drama filled I forget that this is actually an alternate history kind of thing. I don’t think I’ve ever even thought about it until just now. I don’t think I’ve ever even cared to fact check or see what was different. Now of course, I’m about to go and look at everything. Because there is no effing way all this crap actually happened and McGee just made it more modern. Because Lawd if it is, what were people even doing back in the day if they really were doing this? lol

This one is also still super fast paced. I remember putting it on like 2.05 because I wanted to get through it so quickly. It doesn’t even have anything to do with it being a good story, it’s just the words are easy and the people are messy. Definitely something that will keep you interested. I found myself like eating up her words while I was doing everything.

The characters were all the same. I still hate one of them and they still got everything. And then there’s the one character who actually deserves everything, who doesn’t even bother to go for it. And then there’s the character who is my favorite who (in my opinion) just ruined her whole life, but then gets the chance to see what she’s been missing. Like I said, this book is alot lmao

This series is going to kill me. This one ends on another cliff hanger. And this one is a big one. Because it then causes a chain reaction to everyone. All of them end up with some sort of craziness. So basically every character has a cliff hanger and y’all already know how I am about those. I still feel like they’re annoying lol

I’m going to say it again…. I can tell from the ending there’s going to be another one, but I don’t know how I feel about it. I’m invested now, but I hate almost everything and everyone about this lol Everyone still except Beatrice. And yeahhhhhhhhhhhh…… Anyway, I’ll see how I’m feeling later on.

Overall, I give this

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