Type of read: Commuter Read

What made me pick it up: I've been binging 'The Crown' on Netflix and 'Unroyal' popped up on the available now list for my library.

Overall rating: 'Unroyal' felt like an end-of-the-year book report. It's a collection of the author's writing mixed with citations and references to other significant points in time that connect the dots between Simpson, Spencer, and Markle, attempting to share what qualities, triggers, and instances distanced them - and in some cases the men they loved - from the throne. I'm not mad at it, but I think I was expecting more. Again with the book report analogy, it felt like Lyall took the easy sources and used them to their advantage. That's not a bad thing, it just felt...fluffy.

If you choose to enjoy 'Unroyal,' I highly suggest the audio version as it has actual audio clips from the citations, which is always fun to hear the true voices.