Heir, Apparently

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Heir, Apparently
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13+
Release Date
July 09, 2024
ISBN
978-1250873071
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An American teen learns she may have accidentally married the King of England, only to end up stranded on a tropical island with him in Kara McDowell's high-stakes rom-com, Heir, Apparently.

Freshman year is stressful enough without accidentally being married to the King of England. Of course, Wren Wheeler can’t tell her Northwestern classmates about that; after surviving a narrowly-averted apocalypse over the summer, everyone’s had enough excitement for one lifetime. Wren knows she needs to move on from Theo, but she can’t forget the look in his eyes when he left her on that island in Greece―and also, he took her dog.

When an ill-fated attempt to rescue Comet the Apocalypse Dog turns into a chemistry-fueled reunion with Theo that’s caught by the paparazzi, Wren finds herself under the royal spotlight. Suddenly, she’s a problem for “the firm” to solve, and in order to be protected from the rabid press, she’ll have to fly back to London with Theo. Along for the ride are Naomi and Brooke, as well as Theo's siblings, including Henry, the brother he's spent his life being compared to. But because the universe can’t let these two maybe-newlyweds have one conversation in peace, their plane goes down over the Atlantic, crashing on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere.

Stranded with no sign of rescue, the group will have to band together against poisonous animals, catastrophic injuries, a brotherly rivalry, and an ill-timed volcano if they’re going to make it out alive. And, scariest of all, Wren and Theo will have to face their feelings for one another and decide what they want their futures to look like―and if that future will be heartbreak, or happily ever after.

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The Sequel we needed
Overall rating
 
4.7
Plot
 
4.0
Characters
 
5.0
Writing Style
 
5.0
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N/A
Heir, Apparently is the sequel we needed after that cliffhanger ending of The Prince and the Apocalypse. It has been months and Wren’s life feels untethered. She is operating without a plan and is about to start college with an undeclared major. Prince Theo is about to become King because his mother passed. When Wren finds out he’s touring Canada she grabs her best friend Naomi and sister Brooke and drives straight there to find out if their marriage certificate is valid.
The ‘firm” is less than happy to see Wren show up and the tabloids are rabid for details and pictures. Prince Theo is aloof trying to convince everyone including himself that Wren needs to go home and that there is nothing that can develop between them. If things went without a hitch there would be no way to change his mind. Therefore, the series of events gets increasingly more perilous, and as a result more farfetched to ensure they have plenty of time to get close again. I understand the motivation for putting our characters through this scenario but it doesn’t have the same believability that the apocalypse scenario did even though it was a fun read.
The chemistry between Theo and Wren is so well done that it checks all the boxes of a great book. I stayed up late and read it in under a day so who cares that the plausibility is a bit out there! It was interesting that instead of the isolation to develop their relationship like in the first book we now have Wren and Theo’s family involved. This allows them to all get to know one another and to see that our couple is a fated pair even though they are from such different worlds.
The resolution was surprising and contained a few twists that I didn’t expect. Overall, I enjoy these characters and am thrilled there was a sequel. Kara McDowell is joining my watchlist of authors I want to read more from in the future. The chemistry between these characters was a chef’s kiss and a pure delight to read. I wouldn’t mind if she wanted to stay with this world and make companion novels of Theo’s siblings finding love (please!?!).
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