* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller *
* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *
* BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! *
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.
I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy--this book had everything I crave. I'm jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time! - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners
Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second. - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
After a reread spurred on by the movie - which also made me buy the book physically -, I'm tired of pretending this book isn't a standard for romance. There is so many things that I realize I still love in this book even if I remember a lot of it. In fact, I think that the book only got better in this second read-through, because I understood a few of the politics a bit better.
The banter is immaculate, the build-up, while I could definitely mention that it's a tad short, is quite nice, and that TikTok mentioning how the thing that is hard to read in public isn't smut but the fluff really hit the nail in the head.
I don't know if I'll pick up other books by the author, as I've heard they're not as good, but the fact I've had to update this rating to 5 stars really urges me to do exactly that. This is exactly what I want from Achillean Romance.
Also, the fact that Verity lost the Goodreads Choice Award for Romance because of this book? Iconic. Immediate legendary status.
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