Red, White & Royal Blue

"Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some."

Some books have a power of rendering you utterly speechless and powerless. They have the ability to flip you inside out. They can break your heart and mend it simultaneously. They can melt you into a blubbering mess. Red, White & Royal Blue did all of it. It cracked my soul and healed it by leaving little pieces of itself in it.

About the book:

Red, White & Royal Blue is a queer romance by Casey McQuiston. The novel centres around the character of Alex Claremont- Diaz, the First Son of the United States, and his relationship with Henry, a British Prince.

Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of first-ever elected female President of The U.S hated Prince Henry right from their first meeting. When the tabloids caught an altercation between them during Prince Philip's wedding, both the heads family and state conjure up a plan to salvage the situation. You guessed it, it's fake friendship! What could possibly go wrong by their pretending, right? Probably, everything. Long story short, they catch feelings and hide their forbidden affair. With Mamma Claremont's reelection campaign going on full swing, things could get messy if their relationship got out.

A Prince charming fantasy written in a modern pretext, this book is so wholesome. As a non- American, the political jargon was a bit arduous in the beginning but once I got the hang of it, it didn't matter. The witty banter between Henry and Alex had me either outright laughing or grinning like a lunatic the whole book. Both are literature nerds that are destined to make history. The emails they write to each other! *sigh* Henry and Alex are my OTP. To sum up their relationship in a single sentence it would be- childhood crush to enemies to fake friends to real friends to friends with benefits to an established relationship. I read this somewhere and I couldn't agree more.

This book checks off every criterion of a reader.

✨Badass female characters? Check.

✨Representation of different sexualities? Check.

✨Diversity? Check

✨Millennial comedic gold? Check.

✨A wholesome coming out scene? Check.

✨Inner turmoil about sexuality? Double-check.

I have so much to gush about this book that a single post falls quite insufficient for my rant. The layering of comedy over politics with a ton of romance that is disgustingly cute, this book is just immaculate.

"To every person in search of somewhere to belong who happened to pick up this book, I hope you found a place in here, even if just for a few pages. You are loved. I wrote this for you. Keep fighting, keep making history, keep looking after one another."

- Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue.

Honestly, if this isn't already on your TBR, you should add it immediately!