Verdict: A light, charming royal fauxmance: Princess Alice, the first out member of the British royal family, clashes with outspoken anti-monarchist Sara at a school event — then needs her expertise for her nephew, and they end up fake dating. Readers enjoy the humour, the low angst and Sara’s daughter Libby; some found it slow … Read more
Verdict: A well-written, entertaining opposites-attract romance between Monaco’s bookish, introverted princess and the first woman fighting for a Formula One podium. The racing scenes win over even non-fans; the flaws are a slightly preachy start, some F1 inaccuracies and an ending that stops short. Best for: Readers who want royalty, motorsport and two strong-willed heroines … Read more
Verdict: A light, funny royal romance with a sweet, mature couple and a sapphic fairytale feel. Fans find it swoony, and one likens it to Red, White & Royal Blue; critics found it instalove-heavy, low on tension and bland, and several downgraded it over its AI-generated cover. Best for: Readers who want a royals-meet-sport fairytale … Read more
Verdict: A likeable butch/femme royal romance with a motorbike-riding undercover reporter and a princess-adjacent idealist who has real chemistry, undercut by a thriller subplot that dilutes the love story and a spin-off structure that leans hard on books you may not have read. Best for: Readers who already know Queen Roza and Lex from Jenny … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A lush, fiercely voiced reclamation of Egypt’s last pharaoh with genuine emotional weight and a superb audiobook, undercut by a narrator who foreshadows everything and a queer thread far quieter than its reputation. Best for: Readers who want mythic historical fiction told by a woman taking her story back, … Read more
Updated on October 8, 2026 Verdict: One of the genuinely great queernormative fantasy worlds, in a book too short to use it — and the lowest-rated instalment of a series that only gets better. Best for: Readers who want an arranged marriage between two princesses in a world where nobody has to come out, and … Read more
Updated on October 7, 2026 Verdict: A time-slip sapphic romance that drops a modern PhD student into a Mughal emperor’s harem and sets her against the woman who rules it — warmly received by its early readers, but with only six written reviews we are not giving it a score yet. Best for: Readers who … Read more
Verdict: A warm, fast, explicit age-gap fairy tale about a retired soldier and a runaway princess, undercut by a protection plot that barely exists. Best for: Readers who want a three-hour age-gap comfort read with real heat, and who are willing to accept that the danger on the cover is decoration rather than plot. Heat … Read more
Verdict: A spice-forward sapphic court romantasy with genuinely painful second-chance angst and 5/5 heat, let down by a plot that reruns book one’s shape and a timeline that does not add up. Best for: Readers who want maximum spice with real yearning underneath it, who like a hidden-heir court plot with a masquerade and a … Read more