a great young adult found family adventure story that also is very informative! but some elements were too reminiscent of riordan’s other work

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an arc!

i like that in the conclusion, the author acknowledges the role that the people in the presidents’ lives contributed to their mistakes. i wish he had done that during each sections. this book was very informative!! it did feel slow at some points, despite not being too long. also, i think its CRAZY to conflate john adams with buchanan, johnson, wilson, and nixon!!!! like, john adams seriously messed up, yes, but in my opinion, he is nowhere near as bad as those others. i dont mind that he included adams, but the fact that he made comparisons to adams in other sections didnt sit right with me. 

possibly the best depiction of anxiety ive ever read. some of the lines were thoughts from my own head. the writing was also incredible. and i loved being with monty again <3 i would have loved to see percy and louisa’s reactions when they got back to london, but this was still pretty much perfect. 

this is my new fav harper st george!!! i really really enjoyed it. the couple was perfect for each other, and the book was hard to put down!

the romance in this was super sweet, and i didnt mind the pacing. i was just a bit confused about why she wasnt more upset about being kidnapped 

cw: threats of sexual violence

this was an impressively well-written book from a new author! i also enjoyed that it had political themes that didnt feel annoying, like overly political fiction books often do. 

i expected to love this but didnt :/ madeline miller’s prose is usually my fav, although this time i did not really enjoy it. it was also weirdly vulgar? i wasnt crazy about the story either. overall, not my fav.