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A review by elliebeadle
Royal Bastard by Avery Flynn
1.0
It's a classic american man has to accept his place as an earl in a village in Yorkshire scenario...... happens to the best of us......
Nick, the main man, is literally one yeehaw away from whipping out his guns and flannels. He cites his 'american liberty' as a reasoning for his behaviours several times. He meets a Yorkshire woman who is prim and proper and there is romance and steamy bits etc etc u know the sitch. Tbh it's not really my sort of thing at all so realistically not surprising that i didn't enjoy it..... but i didn't manage to finish lincoln in the bardo and yet i finished this so what does that say about George Saunders? It says that Lincoln in the bardo is pretentious unreadble shite!!!! Anyway I digress
I listened to this on audio and for some reason the woman has constant shifts in accents..... one minute she is queens english chelsea raaah yas dahling and the next minute she's like oo arr wurrs meh cuppa then duck...... happy to stan an impersonations queen but ultimately i was just confused. Also Nick sounded like Batman (the Christian Bale one).
Aside from the romance there is a subplot where Nick (who is incidentally the mastermind behind DUSTER SLIPPERS) is trying to invent some kind of elite bionic dog collar and i very much struggled to get into this storyline. I could not tell you what the collar's purpose was other than being robotic in some way. Could he not have been inventing something a bit more...cool? Glamorous? Sexy? Although I suppose it could be sexy if ur into that. It culminates with him cracking the problem and succeeding in inventing his techy dog collar and she falls into his incredibly smart and flannel-clad arms and they dance to 500 miles by the proclaimers. Literally.
If u are into this kind of thing then maybe look at all the reviews cause some people did find it fun and sweet but for me....no. Although it did make me laugh
Nick, the main man, is literally one yeehaw away from whipping out his guns and flannels. He cites his 'american liberty' as a reasoning for his behaviours several times. He meets a Yorkshire woman who is prim and proper and there is romance and steamy bits etc etc u know the sitch. Tbh it's not really my sort of thing at all so realistically not surprising that i didn't enjoy it..... but i didn't manage to finish lincoln in the bardo and yet i finished this so what does that say about George Saunders? It says that Lincoln in the bardo is pretentious unreadble shite!!!! Anyway I digress
I listened to this on audio and for some reason the woman has constant shifts in accents..... one minute she is queens english chelsea raaah yas dahling and the next minute she's like oo arr wurrs meh cuppa then duck...... happy to stan an impersonations queen but ultimately i was just confused. Also Nick sounded like Batman (the Christian Bale one).
Aside from the romance there is a subplot where Nick (who is incidentally the mastermind behind DUSTER SLIPPERS) is trying to invent some kind of elite bionic dog collar and i very much struggled to get into this storyline. I could not tell you what the collar's purpose was other than being robotic in some way. Could he not have been inventing something a bit more...cool? Glamorous? Sexy? Although I suppose it could be sexy if ur into that. It culminates with him cracking the problem and succeeding in inventing his techy dog collar and she falls into his incredibly smart and flannel-clad arms and they dance to 500 miles by the proclaimers. Literally.
If u are into this kind of thing then maybe look at all the reviews cause some people did find it fun and sweet but for me....no. Although it did make me laugh