Red, White & Royal Blue

12:15, 448 pages

English language

Published May 14, 2019 by St. Martin's.

ISBN:
978-1-250-23395-0
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Goodreads:
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Length: 12 hours 15 minutes First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret …

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"A whole ass crudite platter with yogurt dip"

I didn't like this book. Sorry.

I should have known better, it's not my first Casey McQuiston. As with One Last Stop, this was less of a romance novel and more of a greatest hits of queer history factoids with a romance plot kind of tucked in around the edges. It's got a lot of queer trauma in present day, which I find difficult to read - I read romance for escapism and relaxation, not depressing realism. Romance is junk food, a little potato chip you can finish in one sitting - this book was a crudite board ;)

The last half of the book slows down way more than I'd like, and instead of getting on with the plot, we slog through a ton of flowery, increasingly ill-advised emails that have me cringing just knowing the leak plot twist is going to come. And it does! But then it's …

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Subjects

  • Romance
  • Contemporary
  • LGBTQIA+