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title: "God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness #15)"
description: "Summary: Georgie and Darcy are \"invited\" to spend Christmas with the royal family.  This past fall, I reread the Inspector Gamache book to prepare for the 18th book in the series. I enjoyed reading..."
url: https://bookwi.se/god-rest-ye-royal-gentlemen/
date: 2023-01-06
modified: 2023-01-06
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
type: post
lang: en
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# God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness #15)

[![God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen cover image](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-2-199x300.jpeg)](https://www.amazon.com/Rest-Royal-Gentlemen-Spyness-Mystery-ebook/dp/B08S6ZHFLJ/)**Summary: Georgie and Darcy are “invited” to spend Christmas with the royal family. **

This past fall, I reread the Inspector Gamache book to prepare for the [18th book](https://bookwi.se/a-world-of-curiosities/) in the series. I enjoyed reading the series back to back instead of once a year because I saw subtle connections between the books I missed when I read them a year apart. But the other part is that the Inspector Gamache books have a depth to them that allows for rereading and the quality across the series is high enough that I want to reread them all.

I have continued to read the Royal Spyness series (which I originally started about the same time I started reading the Inspector Gamache series) because it is light cotton candy. A bit of fluff is enjoyable now and then. I read this in print in two days. The books are not long, and they read quickly. But I can’t imagine rereading the whole series or reading more than two or three in a year because they don’t hold my interest well.

I am reading this one more than a year after it was released because I didn’t want to pay full price for a book I will not reread and do not care about that much. The $1.99 I paid was worth it, but I wouldn’t have paid much more because the series has stalled.

Georgie, after having solved over a dozen murders and protected various members of the royal family many times, still is unsure of herself. And while Darcy is a good loving husband, he still isn’t including her in his work even though she is just as skilled at being a detective as he is. The “naive girl that happens to solve a murder” schtick is getting a bit old.

I enjoyed the book as I read it, even if it was a bit frustrating. But it is hard to recommend the books without plenty of caveats about them not really being all that good. I like the characters, even with their weaknesses. And Bowen has decent plots. But they are still fluff, and it has been a while since I thought the series was worth recommending.

God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness #15) Purchase Links: [Paperback](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440000084/), [Kindle Edition](https://www.amazon.com/Rest-Royal-Gentlemen-Spyness-Mystery-ebook/dp/B08S6ZHFLJ/), [Audible.com Audiobook](https://www.amazon.com/God-Rest-Ye-Royal-Gentlemen/dp/B091V7455K/)