The Royal Correspondent
May. 20th, 2025 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThe Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel tells the story of Blaise Hill starting a job in journalism in Australia in the late 1950s but moving to the UK to cover a royal wedding, with a dangerous secret dogging her heels.
Started out really fun, though a lot more thriller-y than I was expecting, with organised crime and spies thrown in with the royal wedding and upper class events. I loved all the stuff about newspaper production in the late 50s and early 60s, as well as all the discussion of gender politics and class inequality. The main plot doesn’t start until a third of the way in, but I enjoyed all the build-up.
The romance aspect started to go badly awry in the second half, as well as the thriller aspects really ramping up. But once I stopped being annoyed that the book wasn’t what I’d expected and just leaned in, it was a lot of fun and the ending brings everything together pretty well.
Started out really fun, though a lot more thriller-y than I was expecting, with organised crime and spies thrown in with the royal wedding and upper class events. I loved all the stuff about newspaper production in the late 50s and early 60s, as well as all the discussion of gender politics and class inequality. The main plot doesn’t start until a third of the way in, but I enjoyed all the build-up.
The romance aspect started to go badly awry in the second half, as well as the thriller aspects really ramping up. But once I stopped being annoyed that the book wasn’t what I’d expected and just leaned in, it was a lot of fun and the ending brings everything together pretty well.
