Our friend Melinda @melindaedits, is here with a review for The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan.

This is a follow up to The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of The Fug Girls, fashion bloggers who I follow and really enjoy. The Royal We, and now The Heir Affair, is a thinly disguised alt fan fic of Princes Harry, William, and Kate Middleton. The Royal We pre-dates the arrival of Meghan Markle on the scene so there’s really no fictionalized version of her that appears in either book.

I loved The Royal We so I was excited about The Heir Affair, however, there has been around 5 years between these books and this one picks up almost immediately after the last. That was rather jarring to me as a reader who is used to romance authors doing the heavy lifting of either integrating excellent synopses into the stories for those of us who don’t re-read or just make a series about different couples. I spent about 25-35% stopping and looking for spoilers from the first book until I just gave up on that part and kept reading obliviously.

But I finally bailed on the whole book because I could not handle how the potential triangle between the three from the first book – which ended in MARRIAGE – continues. Bex and Nicholas (William stand-in) are married now and he spends his entire time in a tense one-upping situation with Freddie (Harry’s counterpart). I hated them both by the time I DNF’d because they both come off as whining children. Freddie has no actual reason to be angry – he kissed his brother’s fiance previously and is mad they left for a bit…huh!?! And Nicholas HAS a reason to be mad but he is actually mad because Freddie is doing more than him for a few weeks? I don’t know what was going on there but I hated it.

And really, I’m glad I bailed when I did because what happens later is simply bananas, and not in a ooh FUN way, more in a wtf did I read and why kind of way. To be clear there is no cheating in the half that I read or later on between any of the MCs from what I gather. But I can’t deal with grown adults acting like children in romance these days. I borrowed these CWs from my reviewer friend Melanie at Love in Panels who *did* finish it and it’s a whole lot!

CW: On page miscarriage, inability to conceive, off page affair between minor characters in the past, death of supporting character, injury of major character sustained in military service, off page kidnapping of minor character in the past resulting in fear of going out in public, mental illness of minor character (not seen but referred to), allegations of cheating (untrue)

Grade: DNF

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