Red, White & Royal Blue
From Goodreads:
- 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.
I picked this book up in the LGBTQ+ section of my local Barnes & Noble on an impulsive book sun, and glancing through the summary I could tell that it had a number of things I like:
- Cute romance.
- International relations.
- Presidential campaigning.
- Not ten books I'd need to read after it.
So yeah. I bought it. I don't read a lot (not because I don't like reading, but because it's historically effed with my sleep schedule and that's something I need to avoid doing) but I was hooked on this book from the moment I opened it!
General Questions:
- Did you enjoy the writing style and third-person POV of the book?
- Do you think a relationship like this is plausible in the "real world", and if not, did it bother you in the novel? Or did you just accept that it was a piece of fiction?
- Am I the only one who thought the pacing was a little off? I never really questioned the time-jumps, but at times I found them hard to identify in the passage.
- Which character resonated the most with you?
Spoiler-y questions:
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— set by MJ <3 —