red, white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston

Sixty-third book of 2020

Reading period: Aug 04th 2020 – Aug 07th 2020

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?

Rating

Review

This book was one of the best books I read this year so far.

I wanted to read this book after I read a lot of good reviews. I don’t regret it at all!

I like how the romance takes place. The fact that they aren’t directly a “real” couple, but they learn about each other through emails and messages is well done and makes you have a lot of different emotions. Also, they learn a lot about themself, and you have an evolution of their couple but also them.

The fact they both help each other with their struggles is fantastic and make the link between them more robust. Mainly, that they are public people and the image they should give to the population and which they indeed are is different but so important for other people.

This story was funny, heartwarming, sexy and especially hopeful. I didn’t want to put the book even if I finished it.

Liz.