A review by happi_mess
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

5.0

This is an emotional rollercoaster! I absolutely loved this and the audiobook is so great! It was the first book that I actually finished just by listening.

I was laughing, then I felt in love, then I was CRYING, and then I was cheering. Oh! Just how much I loved this novel! It was perfection!!

Alex and Henry... my precious boys!! The words they used to express how much the other means to them... I felt like my own heart could burst! ❤️

Oh, have I already stressed enough how much I love this?! Yeah. More below:

Red, White & Royal Blue
Oh, the love, the love, the love!!! How do I even begin? I super loved this book that I don’t even want to say so much. Haha.

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Red, White & Royal Blue in a sentence:
Mortal enemies Alex, First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry, His Royal Highness, were forced to spend time together for damage control a photographed confrontation.
I wanted to say more but that’s all I could really say. HAHA.

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The Review:
I had long been over reading romances after some disappointing reads. But somehow when I saw this book and its beautiful cover I just had to pick it up. I listened to this in an audiobook and thought that this could possibly not hold my attention.

Boy I was wrong.

Alex is so punchy and funny that I couldn’t stop listening to all his remarks and what would come out of his mouth next. I have tabbed so much and I haven’t even reached page 50.

Here’s one that I highlighted in my ebook:

“What? she says. “I wanted to be prepared for my first-ever royal wedding.”
“You went to prom, didn’t you?” Alex says. “Just picture that, only in hell, and you have to be really nice about it.”
I was cracking up in the whole of the first few chapters! This book made me feel so many emotions. I found myself laughing, smiling, hopeful, sad, and CRYING. This is the first time in a long, long time that I had cried over a book!

I so loved the diversity and the time that was given to any side characters so that we know enough about to care about them. For a romance novel in third person’s POV? This is really good. I felt closer to the characters than the other books that I have read written in first person POV.

The tension between Alex and Henry was greatly built up and the steamy scenes...

I. AM. SO. HERE. FOR. IT.

And the love! Oh, the love!! This be me throughout the most of the novel.

Final thoughts: I really love the plot, the built up, the background, the characters--this is all just so great! And I just found out that this was a debut novel! Plus points for it!

YOU JUST HAVE TO READ THIS AND LIVE IN THE MAGIC OF IT ALL.

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Some favorite quotes:

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
“You are", he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had.”
“Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?”
I can, of course, cite some more, but this would be too long. And of course, the quote from the picture.