I wanted to like this, I really did, but my god was this a struggle. This book confirmed a few things for me.

Truthfully, I though this book would make me realize that I did actually like these things, but alas, here we are, almost a month after I started it begging for the book to end and put me out of my misery OR give me the payoff I was really aiming for.

I think what immediately turned me off to this book was that it was sold as a enemies to lovers, when that was honestly pretty misleading. By chapter like three they were already hooking up and I’m like….??? Ok.

I also think I heavily disliked how it was very Republicans bad, Democrats good. Like I find it really hard to immerse myself in the story when it’s trying to pretend that Democrats are much more progressive than they actually are. Pretty idealistic and I just couldn’t believe it, especially because of the timeline we actually lived and where we are in the world today.

There’s a chance I would have really loved this if I read this a few years ago, but it just really wasn’t for me.

P.s. - this could just be me but making Alex half Mexican didn’t add anything to the plot for me. I feel like their could have been an interesting conversation about immigration reform or how fucked that system is, or even how Latine and other historically excluded groups live day to day and how the country contributes to that in a daily basis, but instead it came off more as pandering into diversity. I also realize it was meant to be a romance so maybe the idea was to steer away from these heavier topics, but if the choice was a romance about the First Son and the Prince of England, it feels strange not to include it.