A review by zoesallbooked
Royals by Rachel Hawkins

5.0

I honestly loved this book. It was a quick, easy read and that's all I was looking for. Granted, some things made me scratch my head, like the healthcare bit. You could tell it was written by an American. I'm Canadian, and it baffles me every day how much people have to pay for things in the States. I was looking up the other day how much it costs to give birth in Ontario, and from everything I've read and the people I've talked to, your biggest expense is paying for parking. Not tens of thousands of dollars for a procedure. I looked it up after reading that part, just out of the sake of curiosity, and no one would be in debt to anyone for medical bills in Scotland. It just seems presumptuous to assume that every other country is going to have the same insane medical bills without doing proper research.

Lack of research (on multiple things, it seems, given other reviews) aside, it was a cute book. I didn't want to read too much into it, because honestly, I know the bare minimum about Scotland. So unless I decide to research every bit of this book for accuracy, I'm going to take it at face value. I loved the romance, hated the queen, wanted to punch the main character a few times until she sorted herself out, and overall had a good time reading.