Book Review: Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Book: 27/100

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary: [From Goodreads] What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic.

Thoughts: I really loved this book! For this political nerd, it's a perfect mash-up of romance and politics. The dialogue and banter between Alex and Henry was so fun to read, and great to see this modern day 'fairy tale' and the contrasts between the Crown and the White House.

As much as I loved it I wasn't able to give it five stars because I reserve my five stars for books I just can't put down. The size of this one was a bit daunting, so I did put it down often. All in all, this was such a fun book, I can't believe it took me this long to read it!