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Review of ALEX & ELIZA

Cover art taken from http://melissa-delacruz.com/book/alex-and-eliza/.
Miss Elizabeth Schuyler is American nobility – descended from two of the most prominent New York families, she is an intelligent, beautiful, and spirited young woman. The dashing Colonel Alexander Hamilton is General Washington’s most trusted aide de camp, but he comes from nothing. He is immediately smitten with Eliza, but his role in her father’s court martial for the loss of Fort Ticonderoga thwarts any possibility of romance between the pair until their paths cross again two years later. As romance finally blooms between Alex and Eliza, Eliza discovers that her family’s fortune has been lost, and her parents are insisting on a marriage to the boorish son of New Jersey’s wealthy and powerful governor. Will the Schuyler family’s financial woes keep Alex and Eliza apart, or will love find a way?
“There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies… That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.” – Mrs. Schuyler
Melissa de la Cruz has stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that she was inspired to write Alex and Eliza after seeing the wildly popular musical Hamilton with her daughter, who developed a fascination with Elizabeth Schuyler and begged her mother to find out more about her. What began as research to appease a curious child soon became a passion project for de la Cruz herself, resulting in this novel. If you are likewise obsessed and want to immerse yourself in the world of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, here are some recommended YA books (both fiction and nonfiction) for further reading:
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Cover art taken from http://melissa-delacruz.com/book/love-war-alex-eliza-story/.

Love and War: An Alex and Eliza Story by Melissa de la Cruz 

de la Cruz, M. (2017). Alex and Eliza: A love story. [Audiobook]. Listening Library. Retrieved from https://www.overdrive.com.

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