Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz Review

 Hello Friends :)

I pray you're all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me for another book review here on The Preppy Book Princess.

I've been thinking of switching my blog up a bit in the upcoming months. I love sharing my book reviews, and I will definitely continue to do so. However, I'd also love to go back to doing some other features like tags, ranked and reviewed, checking back on old book hauls, etc etc. Since I go through so many books, especially lately, that would probably mean either adding an extra day to my three regular days of blogging, or perhaps doing a couple of weeks of daily blogging to get caught up with everything.

Not quite sure which route I'm going to take honestly, but you'll be the first to find out when I do.

My hubby and I have been spending a lot of time at home lately aside from working, and we've both been steadily working our way through our TBR piles.

I was finally able to get to a book that's been sitting on my shelves for quite some time, and today I'm excited to share my review of it with you all.

Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz:

Source: Christmas Gift from my Husband

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 

Publication Date: April 11th, 2017

Genre: Young Adult Fiction/Historical Fiction

Series: Alex and Eliza

Synopsis:

Their romance shaped a nation. The rest was history.

1777. Albany, New York.

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters—Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball.

Still, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington’s right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck—as an orphan, and a bastard one at that—to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.

(synopsis from goodreads)

My Review:

I was probably not the typical fan base for this book, as to be completely honest, I've never seen Hamilton nor do I really know anything about it other than the obvious fact that it's about Alexander Hamilton

However, the premise of this one really intrigued me, and I'm often a sucker for historical romances that are based off of true events. That being said, from what I understand, not much is truly known about Alex and Eliza's actual love story, and so the author took creative liberties to tell a story of what their romance "could" have been like that.

All in all, this was actually a pretty cute read, if perhaps a tad on the shallow side. I enjoyed both Alex and Eliza as characters, and although I found several of the side characters to be slightly obnoxious, I did enjoy the majority of the story. I especially enjoyed the bits about Eliza and her aunt doing their part to aid the war effort, and the interesting way that Eliza and Alexander come to first be acquainted in the first place. The author honestly makes it a bit more comedic than I was initially expecting when I picked it up, and that did take me a while to get used to. 

It was cute and sweet, a pretty quick read, and included a few bits of real historical events that I found interesting, especially the tidbits about the smallpox inoculations. I surprised myself by enjoying this one more than I expected to, although it definitely reads more like an entirely fictionalized story and didn't really feel like it was historically representative of the actual couple themselves. 

Final Rating: 3/5.

Enjoyable, but probably not enough so to continue on with the rest of the series but time will tell if I decide to do so.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day :)

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