Many thanks to Usborne and NetGalley for my proof copy. Phew, what a wild ride! I did not expect to be in tears at the end… I also didn’t realise it’s part of a trilogy so excited to read the next two parts! Perfect for fans of American Royals by Katherine McGee and would also suggest this for fans of AGGGTM and Karen McManus. Nice short easy chapters to read and also appreciated the little snippets of extra information at the beginning of each chapter - expanding the story through texts, transcripts of phone calls and interviews,, and scandalous gossip magazine excerpts. Bit of romance, bit of enemies to friends, intrigue and twists - all makes this a happy YA reader!

I thought I have read some good books before but this book ia absolutely amazing. It has some realy eye opening twists and teaches you not to trust someone you just met and to not judge a book by its cover. This book is absolutely gripping and you can't put it down. I would highly recommend. Xx

I adored Royal Blood. I read it one day, staying up late to finish it. There are secrets, a murder mystery with a few twists, a bit of romance, but also more serious themes, like sexual assault and mental health that made for an engaging and thrilling read. In the last seven years, Evangeline “Evan” Bright has been expelled from several boarding schools. After inadvertently causing a fire in the last one, she is forced to spend the summer in London with her father who is none other than the King of England, but that’s the last place Evan wants to be. Born from an affair eighteen years earlier, very few people know of her illegitimacy and she’s never met her father. Until now. Their first meeting is not the warmest and things are not better with the Queen and her stepsister Mary, who despise her very existence. As she adapts to life in the palace, she finds a few friends in the King’s secretary Jenkins and his partner Louis, in the determined assistant Tibby, and in the charming nephew of the Queen, Kit. And Evan needs friends when the truth about her birth is revealed by the press and she becomes the focus of vicious comments and lies. Also, after a party, a body is discovered and Evan was the last person to see the victim alive, so she needs to find out the truth and fix her reputation, leading her to uncover other secrets inside the palace. I loved the character of Evan. Bold, smart, and fiery, she grew up with her grandmother because her mother suffered from mental problems. After her grandmother’s death, she learned the truth about her birth and she spent the following years in different boarding schools where she was never able to make friends because of the secrets she had to keep. Her relationship with her father is as central to the story as the murder mystery and I loved how it developed. Royal Blood is gripping, intriguing, and very well-written and it has a terrific ending that makes me really look forward to the sequel.

Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book! I really enjoyed this one. It somehow managed to be fun whilst dealing with some pretty heavy topics. The chapters were short which made for very easy reading, I devoured it during a long car journey. I loved all the characters, the enemies to friends aspect was great and not something that I’ve read a lot of in the past. I was definitely getting Gossip Girl and Red, White & Royal Blue vibes which was absolutely fantastic. All in all it was a very good YA read and I can’t wait for the next part in the trilogy!