Madam President was an enthralling fiction read following 3 female White House staff members on one of the most traumatic days of their careers-- the president, the Secretary of Defense, and the press secretary. I found this book to be very refreshing, as it follows female characters in high-power settings rather than their male counterparts.

While the writing was slow at some points in time, this book had me glued to the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next. I want to go back and reread it already in order to catch some of the things I might have missed! 4 stars.

Shoutout to the publisher, Atria Books, for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

For a book about women in power and a mass terrorism event it's incredibly boring.

I love reading about Presidents, real or not, and the library's app recommended this audiobook to me. I had no idea until after I'd listened to it that this is book 3 in a series of books about a woman president, written by Nicolle Wallace, of whom I had no clue who she was until reading some other reviews.

This book was good, but some of the situations were so convoluted that I could not suspend disbelief to really enjoy it. The author worked in The White House at the time of the 9/11 attacks and brings their insider experiences to the incredible story of FIVE terrorist attacks on American soil in one day.

At times, I felt like all these strong and capable women who are holding some of the most important jobs in the country were out-of-place because of their reliance and worrying about men so much.

I'm going back to read the other books in the series; maybe I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read the preceding two books prior to picking up this book. Publishers, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put book numbers on series books! You do it for children's books, so I don't see why it's so hard to do it for adult series books!

Boring. Another reviewer said it best... it’s kind of a book about nothing. A book about the first female president could have been much more.

I understand the writer worked in the WH on 9/11, and it almost is as though she used writing this book as a way to cope with that experience.

Disappointing.

An enjoyable, easy read. I like stories that involve or center around strong women and Ms. Wallace writes them well.

Please, Nicolle Wallace, Write More Novels

I’m so sad to have finished all three of the Charlotte Kramer trilogy books. The characters are so well developed, relationships so realistically detailed, and story arcs believable. As a 30 year DC area resident not involved in politics, it’s fun to imagine real people in these characters, which have been developed by someone who knows of what she writes.

This was my favorite of the three, even if it caused me to feel that as a country we are more vulnerable than ever (Trump aside)

NDW you are the most direct and fair person on MSNBC, but please, please, start writing again.

I found Wallace's Charlotte Kramer series interesting for the insights shared about what it's like to work in the White House. The writing is adequate, and the plotting is okay (with some churning, that is, circling around and around certain points). Wallace tries hard to represent politicos of both parties as decent, hard-working, generally well-intentioned people. Her cast of characters are mostly white, heterosexual, and mostly female.

I didn't love this one as much as the first two. I wish Wallace had gotten to the rising action earlier, after the opening tease. This book also jumps timelines, if that bothers others it's good to know that it stays consistent in large chunks, rather than changing chapter by chapter.

Overall, a solid work and a fast read. I just wanted more!

it took me quite a while to finish this book. the writing was really slow. most of all I was disappointed in the way that these "strong" female leads were portrayed. Yes they were women in power positions but in no way were they feminist. To say it simply a man would not have been written in the same way.

The book almost follows too many characters and has too much going on but none of it is given much depth. There were multiple different plot arcs but none were very well developed and it was all anti-climatic. And much of the plot and story arcs felt overly contrived.