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A review by shaun_trinh
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
5.0
This book is HORNYYYYY! ITS HORNY! ITS HORNY! It's so unapollegetically horny and I'm here for it. I finally got to reading this book because the movie adaptation is coming out soon and I knew if I didn't read it before watching then I never would.
When I heard that the movie was going to be rated R I was surprised because I thought the book was considered YA. But now I know, now I kno why this movie is rated R because its HORNY!!!! What makes this funnier to me is that I was first introduced to this book my senior year of high school in 2019 by my english teacher who definetly didn't realize what the book was like. I returned it to her with only reading the first 10 pages or so because I didn't feel like reading a 3rd person POV but Ms Wydra I SEE YOU. YOU ARE AN ALLY.
This book is truly an idealistic gay mans wet dream with how HORNY the first 66% of the story is and how every adult talks and acts the way every closeted gay person wishes their parental figures would act. Would real adults and royals talk, behave, and get overruled the way they did in this book? No. But the gays are WINNERS today, so I don't care. I had so much fun reading this book even if the last quarter was pretty unrealistic with how a gay prince royal and first son scandal was handled by both families. That didn't ruin shit for me!
I was a little worried with how much I would enjoy this book since there were a fair bit of people who called it overrated trash, which in some regards I can see why with how cartoonish and idealistic the conflicts were handled, but other then that everything was amazing and fun for me.
Alex and Henry were great characters and their romance was so sweet, wholesome, cheesy, and surprisngly very HORNY. Their characters were very well defined and I honestly BELIEVED in their relationship. I can see why they fit together like a pair of gloves and I loved how they had and visciouly pursued their own passions and dreams.
All the side characters were great and never felt out of place, and I'm really glad this book didn't force the whole "we don't mind that your gay but it's too inconvenient" or "how dare you not tell me about being gay or your taboo relationship with the gay prince" storylines on both Alex and Henry.
The only thing I wish there was more of was genuine conflict between Alex and Henry. Yeah we had the first 20% of them not liking eachother, but they got out of that and into scandalous romance and gayness pretty quickly. This could very well be me being toxic and being one of the rare few that are okay with 3rd act relationship conflicts, but I just wish we actually saw Alex and Henry face an internal conflict with each other and not just external.
Otherwise, everything was *chefs kiss* and I'm super glad I got this Barnes & Noble edition with the extra chapter from Henry's POV.
When I heard that the movie was going to be rated R I was surprised because I thought the book was considered YA. But now I know, now I kno why this movie is rated R because its HORNY!!!! What makes this funnier to me is that I was first introduced to this book my senior year of high school in 2019 by my english teacher who definetly didn't realize what the book was like. I returned it to her with only reading the first 10 pages or so because I didn't feel like reading a 3rd person POV but Ms Wydra I SEE YOU. YOU ARE AN ALLY.
This book is truly an idealistic gay mans wet dream with how HORNY the first 66% of the story is and how every adult talks and acts the way every closeted gay person wishes their parental figures would act. Would real adults and royals talk, behave, and get overruled the way they did in this book? No. But the gays are WINNERS today, so I don't care. I had so much fun reading this book even if the last quarter was pretty unrealistic with how a gay prince royal and first son scandal was handled by both families. That didn't ruin shit for me!
I was a little worried with how much I would enjoy this book since there were a fair bit of people who called it overrated trash, which in some regards I can see why with how cartoonish and idealistic the conflicts were handled, but other then that everything was amazing and fun for me.
Alex and Henry were great characters and their romance was so sweet, wholesome, cheesy, and surprisngly very HORNY. Their characters were very well defined and I honestly BELIEVED in their relationship. I can see why they fit together like a pair of gloves and I loved how they had and visciouly pursued their own passions and dreams.
All the side characters were great and never felt out of place, and I'm really glad this book didn't force the whole "we don't mind that your gay but it's too inconvenient" or "how dare you not tell me about being gay or your taboo relationship with the gay prince" storylines on both Alex and Henry.
The only thing I wish there was more of was genuine conflict between Alex and Henry. Yeah we had the first 20% of them not liking eachother, but they got out of that and into scandalous romance and gayness pretty quickly. This could very well be me being toxic and being one of the rare few that are okay with 3rd act relationship conflicts, but I just wish we actually saw Alex and Henry face an internal conflict with each other and not just external.
Otherwise, everything was *chefs kiss* and I'm super glad I got this Barnes & Noble edition with the extra chapter from Henry's POV.