TITLE:  American Royals IV: Reign

AUTHOR: Katharine McGee

PUBLISHER: Random House Children’s

RELEASE DATE: August 29, 2023

GENRES: YA contemporary, royalty
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Book Review – 5 ✨ Read!

Katharine McGee blessed us American Royals fans with a very satisfying conclusion to a fun series. I was hooked on these books from the opening pages of American Royals, and that never once changed throughout the four books.

Every book in the series has ended with a lot up in the air, if not an outright cliffhanger, and I am really happy that this book wrapped everything up so well. The character growth and relationship development for all of our main characters – Bee, Sam, Nina, and Daphne – were all so well done. Sam and Nina were my favorites from the beginning, and that didn’t change, but I am totally impressed at McGee’s ability to get me to care about Daphne so much when she was such a villain in the first couple of books.

I loved this journey, and cannot recommend this series enough for fans of romance and YA contemporary. It’s such a fun history twist to imagine America with a royal family. The drama, the unforeseen twists and turns, the political maneuverings. I really loved it all.

✨✨✨✨✨/5

Book One Synopsis:

What if America had a royal family? 

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.

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.