American Royals

“When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.”

“Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare. Each child knows exactly what is expected of them. But these aren’t just any royals. They’re American.”

The novel American Royals written by Katherine McGee explores the storyline if the United States of America was a monarchy instead of a democracy. The novel is told through multiple point of views of four prominent characters throughout the chapters: Princess Beatrice, the heir to the throne, Princess Samantha, Beatrice’s younger sister, Nina Gonzalez, Samantha’s best friend, and Daphne Deighton, ex-girlfriend of Prince Jefferson.

This story has so many different things going on at the same time. Beatrice is preparing to take the throne once her father dies, which includes finding someone in the small number of possible suitors to spend her life with. Samantha is dealing with being the more forgotten child out of the three Washington children and the most disliked by the press in America. Samantha quickly falls in love with one of the men that she can’t have which leads to more emotional turmoil and the worsening of the relationship between her and her older sister, Beatrice. Nina is struggling with hiding her relationship with the royal family from her friends at her university, then it becomes more difficult when her relationship with Prince Jefferson grows into more than a friendship. Finally the story follows Daphne in her social climbing schemes and her quest to regain the love of Jefferson and eventually marry him.

I had a massive love-hate relationship with a lot of the plots and character developments of the book. This book was rather massively messy and there was so much drama throughout the entire book and I liked it, but at times it was so frustrating. The whole mess with Beatrice not telling Connor that she was engaged to Teddy just so she could feel what love felt like before getting pushed into an arranged marriage pretty much; that just made me angry because Connor deserves better than that. There were so many love triangles and adults acting as if they know their children but they never spend time with them. One my favorite things I love about this novel is how they explore family dynamics and feelings associated with sibling hierarchies through the growth of the damaged relationship between Beatrice and Samantha due Samantha feeling as Beatrice gets everything due to her being the oldest and heir leaving Samantha feeling left out by her family.

I honestly would recommend this book to anyone, this was an amazing read and I read this book in less than two days. This was a whole lot of drama, romance and love triangles, also this was one of favorite young adult novels that I have read so far.

About the Author

Katharine McGee is the New York Times bestselling author of the Thousandth Floor series. She studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. She’s been speculating about American royalty since her undergraduate days, when she wrote a thesis on “castle envy”: the idea that the American psyche is missing out on something, because Americans don’t have a royal family of their own. Katharine lives with her husband in her hometown of Houston, Texas.

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