I HAVE TO SAY…

SYNOPSIS

Lauren lost a job, her boyfriend, and her best friend all at the same time, so when she gets an opportunity to interview at the Buckingham Palace to be the second-in-command in the royal’s communication team. But during her interview, the director quits, and she ends up becoming the acting Director of Communications for the royals.

What could happen?

RECAP AND REVIEW

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for an arc! All opinions are mine.

Happy release day!

This is currently a standalone contemporary, women’s fiction book told in the third person from Lauren’s perspective.

This book is showing up as a romance on Goodreads and Storygraph, but I don’t recommend going into it as a romance book. There’s some romance elements, but I wouldn’t say it’s romance. This book is primarily about Lauren’s new job working for the royals and starting over after having her life wrecked.

Royal Spin is another book I have mixed feelings on. Parts of it I had a good time with, but other parts didn’t work for me.

There were times I was laughing or giggling and kicking my feet. The middle of this book was my favorite part. There’s some romance vibes and I thought Oscar and Lauren were cute. Some of the press conferences were cool.

I wasn’t a big fan of the pop culture references, the mini love triangle or the way that conflicts arise in the third act. The whole tone shifted and it just felt like Lauren was yelling at everyone, even though a majority of those people were trying to help her, and I didn’t understand where those feelings came from.

I think for how big of a deal the characters were making of what happens, seeing it resolve so easily and with nothing really done by Lauren herself to fix it threw me off.

Joy was my favorite character in the book, and was too forgiving in the end in my opinion. I know friends fight, but it was feeling like Lauren did the bare minimum to fix everything and it all, including their friendship, got resolved too easily.

The book ends a little abruptly, and it makes me wonder if there’s another book coming. It’s unclear what happens next, but what happens in the moment I was cool with.

Read for:

🇬🇧 American working for The Royals

🇬🇧 Starting over in a new country

🇬🇧 Palace politics

🇬🇧 Love-triangle vibes

🇬🇧 Closed door

🇬🇧 Life of a Communications Director

OVERALL

Overall, I give this a 3.25 out of 5 stars. Parts of it were really fun and if there’s a second one, I would probably read it.