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First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince.
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?
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My Review: 5/5 Stars
I LOVED this book! Absolutely adored it. This book has been popping up on my radar and I finally had a chance to read it and I wished I read it so long ago! It was adorable and romantic and swoon worthy and hilarious and so many great things I love to read. It just kept surprising me in the best way. From Alex's no filter to his family and to adorable and sweet Henry. It had it all.
So this book follows Alex, the son of the first woman president of the United States and Prince Henry and English royal. The book is in Alex's point of view only and he is such a character. For one thing, the guy wants to go into politics and he honestly has no filter at times and it cracked me up because I kept thinking he is too passionate and expressive to create a politician like mask. So when Alex was young he was really intrigued by Prince Henry. But later on after meeting him he feels that everything he believed about the guy is wrong. The dismissal and attitude landed Prince Henry as Alex's nemesis. And as Alex's mom is prepping to campaign for reelection, Alex finds himself meeting Prince Henry once again when the First Family is invited to attend Henry's brother's wedding. But at the wedding a little accident leads to American and British relations pulling together for damage control. They gotta make nice in front of the cameras until their little accident passes. But being close together leads to actually getting to know one another and in doing so feelings are sparked. At first Alex doesn't realize what he is feeling. But with a little time away from his constant political life goals, self-reflection, and perhaps a kiss from a certain royal, he learns more about himself. But a relationship will not be easy between the two of them. There are a lot of complications and rules and so much more. But the feelings they have toward one another...well, they are worth fighting for.
UGH, this book. The chemistry between Alex and Henry is unreal and so swoony and romantic and you can't help but cheer for them the entire way. Cheer for them to figure out how good they are together, how they feel about one another, and how you want them to find their happily ever after. I adored this story. And the humor was fantastic. Alex was great and Henry had so many great moments. But also their friends and family too. There were so many layers to this story. It was their romance, it was their lives as they figured out their future and who they wanted to be, it was Alex's mom reelection and the politics that followed it and complicated everything. Such a great book and I wish there was more! Loved, loved it.
