eh not the best but a wild ride that i mostly enjoyed
i do wish that this had engaged with the idea of “should there even be a monarchy?”, seeing as how james is so reluctant to be king and people seem to constantly be protesting the monarchy in this book it felt like a really missed opportunity to have a king at least acknowledge “hey, maybe a monarchy shouldn’t exist”
instead this mostly just insulted the monarchy protestors which from the perspective of james being kinda a bratty teen i get but STILL the idea could have been engaged with !! wouldve added a lot to this book