Episode 146 – American Royals

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Katharine McGee's novel American Royals dares to ask: what if the United States had a royal family? And what if the modern-day American royal children were a little bit horny? The Bellwether Friends, Anna and Alene, joined us to discuss this book's baffling structure, insufficient world-building, and potential Wawa sponsorship.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about King George, no, the other one, so you don't have to.
0:17.8	I'm Kate.
0:18.7	And I'm Renata.
0:19.8	And for this episode, we read American Royals by Catherine McGee.
0:24.3	Joining us to discuss this why a royal romance are the Bellwether Friends, Anna and Aline.
0:30.6	Hello.
0:31.4	Hello.
0:33.3	Welcome back to another episode of Worst Best Friends.
0:38.1	Thank you very much for having us.
0:43.0	In case you don't know, Bellwether Friends is not only the kind of friends they are,
0:48.1	but also is the name of their podcast, which we also have appeared on because we're podcast friends.
0:54.6	Yes.
0:55.3	Soon to appear once we get our episode edited will be an Abba Fest featuring Renata.
1:03.6	That's exactly what we need in these trying times.
1:06.5	It really is.
1:08.3	All right.
1:09.1	So American Royals, we read it.
1:12.9	We did read it.
1:14.1	I feel like I liked it more than you guys as a whole.
1:21.9	I mean, to be fair, like my notes are intentionally nitpicky because that's like what's fun to talk about.
1:27.5	It was fine. Like, that's to talk about. It was fine.
1:29.1	Like that's my hot take.
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