The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Red, White & Royal Blue
AUTHOR: Casey McQuiston @casey.mcquiston
Publisher: St Martins Griffin #stmartinsgriffin
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: May 14, 2019
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw:
- So many people love this book so when the book club I am in was reading it, I decided to give it a go.
What I liked:
- Really complex love story with a twist at the end.
What I didn’t like:
- A lot of sexy scenes. I felt like the middle portion of the book didn’t have enough plot and got slow.
What kept me reading:
- The relationships between the characters were great.
The Characters:
- Henry and Alex were both really fun.
The Ending:
- A little mystery I did not expect!
Narrator:
- He was fine, but I think I would have preferred more uniqueness between the characters.
Consider if you like:
- The Royal We.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Small Summary:
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 relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. And Henry throws everything into question for Alex, an impulsive, charming guy who thought he knew everything: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?