The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Book Review. Thank you to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for the free eARC; all opinions are my own. Picking up where The Royal We leaves off, we’re back in the lives of Bex, Nick, Freddie!
Summary from the publisher…
After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca “Bex” Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world’s judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance.
But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they’d placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick’s brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten — nor forgiven.
Review…
Surprisingly, I didn’t originally read The Royal We because it’s a twist on Will and Kate, but I picked it up because it was set in Oxford. I listened to it with very low expectations before my first trip there and I unexpectedly fell in love with the book. I adored the characters, the setting, the romance, but mostly the friendships. In The Heir Affair the friendships are still there, but we don’t get as much of them or the Oxford setting (although I didn’t expect that) and I missed both!
The Heir Affair is a bit heavier than the first book (trigger warnings at the very end of the page) and missed some of the joy from the first one. It once again tugged at my heart, but also felt a bit repetitive at times. The characters seemed to be a bit more of caricatures than in The Royal We and the balance of heaviness with over-the-topness sometimes didn’t mix well for me. This could be due to feeling a little on edge because of some of the subject matter or maybe just because I’m a bit of a British Royal Fam snob, haha!
This all might sound super critical, but I did still really enjoy it! I love the characters in these books and I genuinely felt sad when I finished it knowing I probably won’t get to “hang out” with them again. Well… until I reread this via audiobook, because I’m absolutely going to be doing that and giving it another go. 4 Stars – I really liked it, but also have mixed feelings!
By the way, I’ve listened to the audio for The Royal We twice, it’s so fun! The Heir Affair will have the same narrator! Links for the audiobook below.
For my review of The Royal We, click here.
The details…
For The Heir Affair….
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Rating: 4 Stars
ISBN: 9781538715918
Get the hardcopy at: Bookshop.org or Amazon or Book Depository
Get the audiobook from: Audible or Libro.fm (use my code lfm122316 to get your first audiobook free from Libro.fm!)
Publication date: July 7 2020
For The Royal We…
Rating: 4.75 Stars
ISBN: 9781455557103
Get the hardcopy at: Bookshop.org or Amazon or Book Depository
Get the audiobook from: Audible or Libro.fm (use my code lfm122316 to get your first audiobook free from Libro.fm!)
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The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Book Review. Thank you to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for the free eARC; all opinions are my own.
Trigger warning: Miscarriage, infertility.
