Heather Cocks

Jessica Morgan

Making it up the aisle was the easy part: After marrying the heir to the throne, Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals as she adjusts to life in the glamorous British royal family, in this "highly anticipated" follow-up to The Royal We, the "fun and dishy" bestseller and NYT Summer Reading List pick inspired by Will and Kate's romance (People). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten -- nor forgiven.

The Heir Affair

Jacalyn Boggs

Ok this book was much better than the first and it made the first worth doing. If you like high drama and the British Royal family this is a fun fan fic where they are even more soapy than the British Royal family actually is (which is saying a lot since they really are pretty soapy).

Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "timely and positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid) After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten -- nor forgiven.

Karen Shimek

I enjoyed the first book, although it was “fluffier” than I usually read. This had no substance.

Mandy Picard

The drama was REAL with this one... I am glad that I finished this. again, a very good pallet cleanser. The narrator was amazing, I'm glad she did both books!

Kayla 

I DNF'd this about half way through. It was so slow moving, not nearly as addicting as the first. I felt like the Queen's character did a complete 180 in terms of voice/personality. I was also so tired of listening to Bex whine and complain about so much.

Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.

b.andherbooks

What a slog. The joy I experienced reading The Royal We all those years ago was in no way replicated by this experience. While the narrator had a lovely voice, the story itself did not capture and hold my attention.

I spent most of the book switching between the audio and the print copy I received for free from the publisher. Reading this today in 2020 made me feel not great.

The pregnancy plot point (CW: miscarriage, infertility problems, pregnancy) and subsequent way of dealing with the titular "Heir Affair" did not work for me at all. There's a lot going on with lies and secrets and the ending did not land at all with me. Let's not praise the rich and powerful for hiding their dirty secrets from the public. Why not abolish the monarchy instead?

Paige Morgan

I think that the fun of the Fug Girls' take on the romantic relationships within the British monarchy (begun with 2016's The Royal We) is that they're extraordinarily savvy about some of the dynamics within the "real" royals; and they're also entirely willing to depart from trying to capture that "reality," in order to go with something fun and unexpected. I wholly approve; I would certainly not have predicted some of the threads that develop in this sequel -- and those surprise dynamics are honestly the highlights of the book, outshining the stuff that I knew would be here (read: baby stuff -- though I appreciated the directions that they took with that arc.)

There are aspects of this second book that feel like the middle book of a trilogy -- many of the leads rely on the characterizations established in the first book, more than developing, though that makes room to develop both Eleanor and Marta further, and I am not a bit sorry. Some things are developed, others as yet unrevealed (who IS Xandra Deane? When WILL Clive get his comeuppance?) I don't know that this book will capture readers who start with it, rather than beginning at the beginning, but as an established fan who didn't realize that any series was possible, I was thrilled, and I'll be just as delighted for a third book.

The Heir Affair

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