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Happy Book Club Thursday, Paper and Glam Readers!

Here are our discussion questions for American Royals:
Ice Breaker - What are you reading, watching, and/or listening to this week?

1. What was your experience reading American Royals and how many 🎇 would you rate it?

2. American Royals is a novel told from the point of view of Beatrice, Samantha, Nina, and Daphne. Was there a particular PoV you enjoyed the most or character you related to? Did you find any of the four love stories more compelling than the others?

3. American Royals offers a thought experiment about how our daily lives would have been impacted if the founders of the current United States had remained faithful to the idea of constitutional monarchy? How successful do you think Katharine McGee was in painting this imagined world? How different is the life of Royals to those raised in the public eye (such as political figures or celebrities)?

4. Throughout the novel, there is constant pressure on Beatrice to pick a husband from a pool of "suitable" bachelors with the main reasoning being so that Beatrice has someone to lean on when the struggles of the monarchy get to be too much. Do you think that reasoning is valid or do you think it has more to do with the fact that America has never had a female monarch before and the "people" would feel better if there was a male figurehead at her side?

5. Even though Nina has been close to the royal twins since they were children, she strictly separates her life between being the royal best friend and being Nina, the college student, to the point of lying to her non-royal friends about her whereabouts and not having any pictures of her and Sam together. Do you agree with her reasonings for this or do you think that she was just being overly cautious?

6. What would you recommend for our readers if they enjoyed American Royals?

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