Status Updates From Red as Royal Blood

Fun. Breezy. Sort of a love triangle. Could hand this to a lot of readers.

Like Rowan I am an anti-royalist so while this was fun wish fulfillment (the maid becomes the queen!) I wanted to see Ruby taking steps to tear town the monarchy in the final chapters or epilogue. Oh well.

Love interest who possibly wants to kill MC is my least favorite trope(?) and this book didn’t change my mind. I liked Asher in the end but wanted a little more about why tf he thought it was okay to try to strangle Ruby in the beginning. Wtf?

I liked a lot of this. I don’t like how often Ruby is doing Hot Girl S*** (finding clues) while in a dressing gown. Some twists were contrived and others heavily broadcast but overall fun and imo rewarding to close readers in catching things early but not to the point of being frustrating.

I’m having a hard time getting past how much time Ruby is spending in dressing gown here. Like …

Not shocked

Hate has never been our problem.

Ooooh

So her birth parents are Garrick the Betrayer and this commoner Esme?

Leaving the castle to follow someone in her nightgown and dressing gown seems really dumb.

Nothing is more dangerous than a crown.

So she’s playing chess with Asher? I thought it would be the king.

This is fun but I have a hard time buying a reverse harem when one of the guys already tried to kill Ruby. Like … not great.