Reviews with content warning for Homophobia - The Unlikely Heir

I loved this book, it's a wonderful romance story! Both Callum anf Oliver where such lovable characters and their friendship and romance very believable. The writing style was fun, and the dual POV well written with the different voices of the two characters. Callum is a wonderful character, and I loved how he was interested in everything and happy to talk and learn about new topics. I have no idea how realistic this storyline is, but I found it well done with all the discussions about politics and royalty.

There was only one thing that bothered me, and that was how the plot twist in the end was handled.

I'm fine with this person being the traitor, but overall it could have been built up better and the way it is written does not send a good message in my opinion. Over the whole book, injustices like poverty, entitled royals, injustice against LGBTQ+ people, colonialism and racism are addressed and discussed. The one that is not really discussed is gender inequality and misogyny. It is only squeezed into one sentence, when Amelia explains why she did what she did. In the next moment she is arrested for planned murder, so this very much plays into the storyline of feminic women being crazy and dangerous. I think this could be improved by introducing these topics before in the story, and show that the main characters also have this as a worry and on their agenda when talking about what to do about all the gender injustices. Or talk about it more after what happens with Amelia.

But overall I really loved the story so if you like queer contemporary romances with a royal character, go read this book!

Thanks to netgalley and thr publisherfor providing an arc in exchange for an honest review!

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