Book Review: American Queen

• Book Blurb

  It starts with a stolen kiss under an English sky, and it ends with a walk down the aisle. It starts with the President sending his best friend to woo me on his behalf, and it ends with my heart split in two. It starts with buried secrets and dangerous desires…and ends with the three of us bound together with a hateful love sharper than any barbed wire.

  My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

  This is the story of an American Queen.

  It starts with a stolen kiss under an English sky, and it ends with a walk down the aisle. It starts with the President sending his best friend to woo me on his behalf, and it ends with my heart split in two. It starts with buried secrets and dangerous desires…and ends with the three of us bound together with a hateful love sharper than any barbed wire.

  My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

  This is the story of an American Queen.

• My review

  American Queen is unlike anything I’ve read before—so masterfully woven it completely blew my mind.

  I resisted reading this book for a long time. The whole “President of the United States” angle put me off—politics is usually the last thing I want in my escapist reads. But the political layer here feels more like court intrigue in a royal fantasy than real-world news, so it totally works. And wow… this book is like nothing I’ve read before.

  A Story That Hooks You From the Start

  Sierra Simone has this way of feeding you just enough pieces of the puzzle to keep you dying for the next one. The story even begins when Greer is seven years old, and I thought, “Oh, this will be boring until she’s an adult.” Wrong. It was fascinating from page one.

  The narrative switches between past and present—something I normally hate—but here it flows like it’s meant to be, each flashback sliding into place like a missing puzzle piece.

  This series feels like 30% plot, 70% romance, but the two are so intertwined you can’t separate them.

  Buildup + Erotism = A Masterpiece

  American Queen is this delicious mix between slow burn and long buildup, with kink, erotism, and only a few sex scenes—but when they happen? They’re intense.

  This book isn’t about the characters finding constant release; it’s about making the reader feel the tension until you can barely stand it.

  This is the first book I’ve read that manages to be erotic without being a fast burn. Erotic books tend to have little to no buildup—but here the buildup lasts years. Ash is so good at seducing both Greer and Embry.

  “Tell me what I have to do to make you as twisted up over me as I am over you. I’ll do anything. Anything.”

  It’s exactly the kind of erotic storytelling I love: the kind that seduces your mind first. To me, that’s truly erotic.

  A Three-Way Dynamic Done Right

  MMF romances can be tricky—you risk one character feeling like a third wheel. Not here.

  Ash (Mr. President), Embry (the martyr), and Greer each have their relationships with each other, and none of them fade into the background.

  • Greer struck me deeply as a character. She’s the woman I wish I could have been in her approach to love and sex—free, self-aware, knowing what she wants. She’s insecure, emotional, naive in some ways, yet internally screaming for something that makes her feel alive.
  • Ash is the capable, reliable, tortured hero.
  • Embry is the self-sacrificing one—though maybe unnecessarily so (we’ll see in book two).

  And the three of them together? Electric. 

  An excellent read—10/10—would recommend, repeat, and reread.

  American Queen is unlike anything I’ve read before—so masterfully woven it completely blew my mind.

  I resisted reading this book for a long time. The whole “President of the United States” angle put me off—politics is usually the last thing I want in my escapist reads. But the political layer here feels more like court intrigue in a royal fantasy than real-world news, so it totally works. And wow… this book is like nothing I’ve read before.

  A Story That Hooks You From the Start

  Sierra Simone has this way of feeding you just enough pieces of the puzzle to keep you dying for the next one. The story even begins when Greer is seven years old, and I thought, “Oh, this will be boring until she’s an adult.” Wrong. It was fascinating from page one.

  The narrative switches between past and present—something I normally hate—but here it flows like it’s meant to be, each flashback sliding into place like a missing puzzle piece.

  This series feels like 30% plot, 70% romance, but the two are so intertwined you can’t separate them.

  Buildup + Erotism = A Masterpiece

  American Queen is this delicious mix between slow burn and long buildup, with kink, erotism, and only a few sex scenes—but when they happen? They’re intense.

  This book isn’t about the characters finding constant release; it’s about making the reader feel the tension until you can barely stand it.

  This is the first book I’ve read that manages to be erotic without being a fast burn. Erotic books tend to have little to no buildup—but here the buildup lasts years. Ash is so good at seducing both Greer and Embry.

  “Tell me what I have to do to make you as twisted up over me as I am over you. I’ll do anything. Anything.”

  It’s exactly the kind of erotic storytelling I love: the kind that seduces your mind first. To me, that’s truly erotic.

  A Three-Way Dynamic Done Right

  MMF romances can be tricky—you risk one character feeling like a third wheel. Not here.

  Ash (Mr. President), Embry (the martyr), and Greer each have their relationships with each other, and none of them fade into the background.

  • Greer struck me deeply as a character. She’s the woman I wish I could have been in her approach to love and sex—free, self-aware, knowing what she wants. She’s insecure, emotional, naive in some ways, yet internally screaming for something that makes her feel alive.
  • Ash is the capable, reliable, tortured hero.
  • Embry is the self-sacrificing one—though maybe unnecessarily so (we’ll see in book two).

  And the three of them together? Electric. 

  An excellent read—10/10—would recommend, repeat, and reread.

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