I cannot believe I've finished this... It was the cover that got my attention and it sounded so cheesy I was sure I would NEVER gonna ask for it on Netgalley. But then I got curious and checked the reviews. All over 4,75/5? The heck, that's good! And everyone seemed to love it!
Ok now I was intrigued.
A huge thank you to Netgalley for approving me.
(Spoiler Alert: This story is over the top, so my review is as well. I love to exaggerate, so please don't take every word all too serious here)
Now to the story: It's a Prince Harry meets a half mexican boy from America. Fanfiction style and oh Prince Harry is gay... but ah yes, sorry, Henry not Harry.
For the first 25 % I thought this was quite cute, but also assumed that Alex was known bi or gay or whatever. He is quite the flirty sassy flamboyant shit (in my eyes), so when it came down to him realising he might be bi or gay I couldn't believe a 21 year old behaving like he does, would still wonder about his sexualtit. He is also half mexican.
Sorry but you lost me there. Cherry on top is him reflecting on his highschool time and make out sessions with his gay buddy Liam. These could NEVER give any indications? Nope, all totally hetero OKAY.
Beside this way over the top naïveté, I really really dislike him cursing non stop. I love a good curse, don't get me wrong. But here it just came down to:
"Hi Alex
Oh fucking shut up you motherfucker you annoy me so much
Ok great to see you too
I gonna kill you, you motherfucker, if you don't kiss me right the fuck now!
Alright... talk soon!"
And I mean he isn't even annoyed? It's his way of talking or flirting?! I would not be thrilled having my boyfriend say "Bitch shut up and kiss me or I punch you" which it basically almost always comes down to. Just why?
After the realisation that Alex is kinda liking Harry, ehm I mean Henry, there is a long string of sex scenes put in several countrys as background. Storyline? Not important, let's see when they could meet again and have blowjobs.
The humour got me sometimes, but unfortunately most of the time it crossed with some more cursing and I lost the mood for the joke.
So this is a story of a maybe bi midtwenty something half mexican boy with tourette who falls in love with a moody stiff prince with no real surprises but oh so much diversity because DIVERSITY! In order to be a popular writer you cannot have more than 1 hetero caucasian character feature in your book these days.
Here you get it all; all sorts of ethnicies, all sorts of gender and sexual attractions. The only hetero caucasian character here is Alex mother, the divorced President of the US. Divorced from a mexican man. Alex is half mexican btw.
After 40% of the book I considered stopping. Let's see; what could happen further? The sexy emails and Snapchats are not so secure than they think and they will be published, they get caught and Harry, I mean Henry isn't allowed to ever see him again.
Alex will receive more sympathy from his family, but for the sake of this mothers campagne we will keep his dick in his trousers and stay put.
Drama drama drama. Some misunderstandings and a happy end.
BUT I kept reading. Guess what? I was right. kinda.

What happens when you fall in love with a prince when your the president's child?
This book had me going from one end of the emotional spectrum to the next. The author did a fantastic job of realism. Adore this New Adult age, m/m romance.

*Received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a light read that dapples ain a mixture of modern relevance aimed towards a mashup of political and popular culture, The writing would adapt very well into a romcom movie.
The story of a boy meets boy on a global stage is sure to delight gay men and straight women and anyone with a modern open mind who would enjoy a light beach read or sitting by the pool with a cocktail or two.

This book was not for me. Not because of the m/m-romance, I'm absolutely fine with it.

I could not connect to the protagonists and I had a hard time with the constructed problems that get the two of them together.

This book was so fun! The romance was sweet and read ALMOST like William, Harry, etc fanfiction. The blend of American politics with British royalty was the perfect mix for me.

I loved this book. It was sweet' funny, and poignant. A great look into political romance. The passion between Henry and Alex is so well done. You want them to succeed and I love their banter. I love that they batter together through hard times and make it work. A perfect romance. Would recommend.

This book is pure entertainment-frothy fun along with serious issues and plenty of romance. The two main characters are Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the female President of the United States, and Prince Henry of Britain, and how they reach their happy-ever-after is a story I will be recommending to all! Alex and Henry are to die for, and I also thoroughly enjoyed every one of the supporting characters, whose own individual stories contribute to the plot and help make this a remarkably heartfelt novel. Highly recommended!

This book is so cute - laugh out loud funny (Literally, me, snickering at work while I read it!), heartstoppingly painful and absolutely adorable. I recommend it a thousand times over. The perfect romance novel to escape into.

This book was full-on delightful. A sweeping romance chock-full of feelings, politics, and characters to root for. It was also very cathartic to read this after living through the past two years of Trump and Brexit. I wasn't expecting to be quite that emotionally affected by a sweet romance, but it made me cry.

This was recommended to me by a coworker who hadn't even read it yet. I was skeptical, but the cover was cute, so I thought, what the heck. I am seriously so so so excited about this book. It has the right amount of cheesy romance with a dash of politics, a heaping spoonful of a characters coming into their own and a huge cup of awesome. The characters are well fleshed out and honestly you can't help but love them all. Added bonus: the excerpts from all of the old letters or poems. They make the story so much more amazing- I was brought to tears multiple times, my heart was just so full. I would 100% recommend to everyone I know and everyone I come across.

A fantastic read. The romance between Alex and Henry was well developed and lovely to follow and both were well written and wonderful characters. Full of humor, emotion, and a whole lot of fun this is a must read.

Frenemies Alec, first son of the president and Henry, prince of England are forced to act as buddies. Explicit sex scenes. Some amusing moments. Although I have nothing against homosexuals, I am not quite ready for reading about homosexual sex.

It's super cute! A fun romcom read that I'd recommend to romance readers, especially if you're looking for more LGBT representation in your romance novels.

I really enjoyed reading McQuiston's take on a love match between the royal spare and the First Son of the POTUS. Lovely helpings of sass and snark, strong feelings, sexual chemistry and real stakes for the two heroes. I was invested, amused, delighted and affected by this book. Recommending it to all readers of good taste.

(Also, please pitch an adaptation to Netflix. Please.)

This book was an absolutely slice of perfection, It's everything we need in post-2016 election world. I cannot recommend it enough.

Mixed feelings ahead. I have read the other reviews and can agree there is a lovely, uplifting feel to this novel. The worries lie with me rather than the book, I think, and maybe because I didn’t realise what I’d signed up for. The is a new adult romance and as such has a lot of explicit sex in, which, I can live without. There’s nothing wrong with it, just not for me. Having said that, it’s not the main focus of the book. I did like the main characters but I never managed to stick with who was who in the rest of the cast, making me feel that these could have been fleshed out more (though not strictly necessary). And it was moving. I don’t often enjoy reading love letters between characters - a bit intrusive perhaps. This is hard to get right and the author did well here. A few tears shed. I do, I hope not idealistically, strongly question the Daily Mails entire role, but won’t say more here.

This was simultaneously maddeningly unrealistic and completely fucking adorable. (Maddening mostly because it's this awesome better world that I wish we lived in right now, dammit. It's a romance novel, so frankly, I don't really care about reality in general. BUT DAMMIT this world was so much better than the craphole we're dealing with right now.)

Anyway, I totally bought the adorable love story and I loved the supporting characters (please let us have their love stories next please please I want Bea to fall in love) and I'm a sort of royals obsessed girl anyway so this was my sweet spot.

(It's pretty explicit, in terms of the sex, so if you can't handle that, avoid.)

I was given an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review, thank you to the publisher.
I really looked forward to reading this book once I read the blurb, even more so when I saw one of the reviews had come from Christina Lauren. Unfortunately, due to no fault of the author, it was just one of those books that just doesn't gel with me. Don't get me wrong, I think the premise of the story is wonderful, and hopefully our world will one day accept and celebrate a gay leader, male or female.
I struggled to get in to the story primarily because of the tense, I didn't feel the characters. I am British, and so seeing so many familiar, current names amongst the Royal family kept chasing me away from the story. Also, and this is *entirely* on me, I can't deal with British speak in books - I will actively avoid books if it is mentioned in the blurb.
What I did really like though, is the end of the book, once the moment happens that we all know will come. Henry's mother inparticular has a great moment, and I adore Alex's sisters. Whilst overall it was not for me, I would quite happily read a book along these lines in future.

When Alex's President mother Ellen is up for re-election, he knows he must do what he can to stay out of trouble. So when he accidentally causes a scene with Prince Henry at the royal wedding, Alex and Henry's relationship as tentative enemies changes into pretend friendship in an attempt at damage-control. As their relationship unexpectedly changes into something else entirely, Alex and Henry grapple with how their actions impact their countries and their own legacies.

This book hurts because it reminds us that this is not the political reality we live in, but it heals that hurt a thousand times over with its optimism that manages be both grounded and liberating. It successfully convinced my black heart that love like this exists, that we do have some power over our legacies, and that we can all shape the future by doing good. I love Alex and Henry and June and Nora with all my heart.

A+ romcom! This ended up being so much more than I expected, and it's pretty much THE ULTIMATE escapist fantasy for liberal millennials right now.

I mean, there are things I could nitpick, but who flipping cares when my heart is a gooshy puddle on the floor.

First of all, it's got this beautifully executed love story that's so much deeper than the cover might suggest. It's also this look at an alternate reality where, basically, Hillary won (this is not a spoiler, it happened 3 years prior to the beginning of the book). It's a world I found myself relishing in and also mourning the lack of.

This just had me completely wrapped up- I (unexpectedly) sad cried and happy cried over the adorable love story, and I happy/sad cried for all that might have been. I laughed my ASS off, and felt positively giddy through it all.