Saturday, February 22, 2025

Book Review: "Royal Scoundrel" by Saxon James

Saxon James’ “Frat Wars” series was really enjoyable (and very hot), but in my opinion, it was too short. I definitely wanted more than three books!

Royal Scoundrel is a prequel which takes place about 20 years before the other books in the series. Dash is a scholarship student at a school where the rich legacies rule. And the Rho Kappa Tau fraternity is the worst of them.

“They’re all rich, all entitled, and ninety percent of them are white guys with generations of being told they’re God’s gift to the universe.”

It figures that the one guy Dash can’t get out of his mind is Archie—Archibald Levine III, to be exact. Archie always has women hanging all over him, so he’s way out of Dash’s league, right? Then why did he stop Dash from a random hookup during a Kappa party?

It turns out Archie is interested in Dash, but he’s totally closeted. Archie’s father expects him to marry a suitable woman and become a lawyer; he certainly wouldn’t accept a gay son. But as much as Dash can’t stop thinking about Archie, Archie feels the same about Dash. Maybe if they fool around a bit (in secret, of course), Archie can get Dash out of his system and go about pursuing what his father expects of him.

This was such a steamy book. Even though I knew where the plot would go, I couldn’t get enough of the chemistry between Archie and Dash, as they both tried to reconcile what they feel for each other with what is expected of them. What’s cool is that these characters are actually the fathers of a character in the third book, Frat Wars: Presidential Chaos.

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