I fell so, so deeply in love with this book and this story right from the beginning. I was already in love with it having watched the recent movie adaptation and finally decided to pick up the book having had it sat on my shelf for literal years. It just has absolutely everything I want in a book - incredible romance (with some smut peppered in), beautiful writing, a truly believable love story and conflict within that, exquisitely developed characters and storylines, I couldn’t go on…

I loved the background context of the royals vs presidency and the necessity to challenge assumptions and pushbacks within that, and overall the storyline of the election flowing through. There were amazing family dynamics and of course so many beautifully written and integrated elements of queerness throughout. I honestly can’t say enough about this book, I just loved it so much. 

I’ve not read a book like this in a while where I literally could not put it down, which for me is really telling, especially given that it’s over 400 pages. Please, please give this one a go, I’m so glad I finally got around to it. Such a solid 5 star read.