Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dec 7-14
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.
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. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you
Review : I absolutely loved this book I love all the characters but I love Alex and Henry. Alex is the first son of a woman president and they are going to a royal wedding and Alex kinda hates the prince Henry but he gets drunk and they end up falling on a very expensive cake so to do damage control they have to pretend to be best friends . But it starts not being pretend and they start to actually be friends . On new years June invites Henry to the new years party and Alex and Henry kiss and Alex is frozen cause since the kiss he can’t stop thinking about it and Henry he finally realizes he’s Bisexual and him and Henry start hooking up and then Alex starts to really fall for him but its complicated cause Alex isn’t out to public and Henry doesn’t think he could ever be out cause he’s a prince .Henry tries to ghost him but Alex goes to London and calls him out and tells him he loves him and that they will make this work . Then he’ll breaks loose Alex and Henry emails leak the man Richards going against Alex mom caused a sex scandle to happen so he could win but it didn’t work his mom won again .
Quotes : 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.”
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?”
Alex snatches a shirt and boxers at random from the floor, shoves them at Henry’s chest, and points him towards the closet. “Get in there.”
“Quite,” he observes.
“Yes, we can unpack the ironic symbolism later. GO.”
“I am the First Son of the United States, and I’m bisexual. History will remember us.”
Oh my God, I thought you were getting into international relations or something.”
“I mean, technically—”
“If you finish that sentence, I’m gonna spend tonight in jail.”
I don’t know who YOU think you’re kidding you Hufflepuff-ass bitch”
Hi,” he says, when he reaches Henry’s eye level. “Hello,” Henry says back. “I’m gonna take your pants off now,” Alex tells him. “Yes, good, carry on.”
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