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If you love reading, chances are you’ve already either read or heard of this book. I’m talking about none other than Casey McQuiston’s 2019 debut book titled Red, White & Royal Blue.
I’ve heard a lot of great reviews about this book. Reportedly, it’s an “instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller.” Moreover, it also won the Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Debut, and Best Romance of 2019, and it is the Best Book of the Year for Vogue, NPR, Vanity Fair, and many more.
Needless to say, this book piqued my interest so I’ve been wanting to read this for the longest time, but unfortunately, I’m currently into LGBTQ manhwas and mangas (the last one I read being No Moral by Tehanu, but I’m digressing).
But no matter because we’re in for a treat! Amazon Prime Video is bringing this beloved novel from page to the screen and we don’t have to wait long either as we can all start streaming Red, White & Royal Blue on August 11. Check out below the book’s synopsis and the reviews here if you wish to read it before the movie drops.
What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn’t always diplomatic.
Annnd, here is the first look at the Red, White & Royal Blue:
Alex Claremont-Diaz is played by American actor Taylor Zakhar Perez who’s best known for portraying Marco Valentin Peña in The Kissing Booth 2. He is the handsome 21-year-old son of the first female president of the United States (played by actress Uma Thurman), he stands five foot nine and has dark, curly hair and brown eyes.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Galitzine plays the role of Prince Henry. The actor is best known for playing Prince Robert in Cinderella (2021) and Luke in Purple Hearts (2022).
Red, White & Royal Blue also stars Stephen Fry, Thomas Flynn, Sarah Shahi, and Clifton Collins Jr. to name a few.
Another, prime example, of mindless and pointless literature which serves no purpose other than it is out-there?
Read its plot? Predicated on the machinations of the Defunct Royals who now serve no purpose since Elizabeth II died.
It’s all “Anti-Climatic and predicated on the tabloids..
Someday, a book, a play, a TV program, or a movie will be created where the Gay characters are intelligent, sensible, reliable, and strong. Instead of whimsical oafs who make poor, impulsive decisions and live lives lead by their broken hearts and sexual impulses to such extremes that they are laughed at (not in a good comedic way) by society. “Red, White and Royal Blue” regrettably is not it.
“Thumbs-up” shallow, adolescent boys, so I guess it figures.
My Beautiful Launderette.
Hunter0500:
What you espoused is a depiction of a normal, male Homosexual – not unlike his Heterosexual counterpart.
However, to depict a Homosexual as a wholesome, God-fearing, contributory Human Being is to deprive Homosexuality of “Gay.”
Gay is what the Media prospers to America not Homosexuality. And that is why we have “The Gay Flag” not “The Homosexual Flag”!
It sounds incredibly stupid. Why is gay thinking always so shallow? And all about appearances? Pathetic. It’s like a porn movie plot with no porn.
You can say that again!
These folks are, as if they’re ordering steak; looking for physical perfection, regardless of their mental state or character; when they, themselves are miles from being such, in any way shape or form. . . how fucked up is that; mentally, spiritually, etc.?
Is this what porn has led to? Is this what it is to be typically gay . . . you can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy? It’s completely dysfunctional, no wonder certain conditions exist.
Obviously another slow “no news” day…
It happens daily!
It happens weekly!
It happens monthly!
It happens yearly!
Big Eden. The BEST gay themed movie EVER ! ! ! Real emotions. Real characters. Real resolution!
Big Eden is a great film. I agree with you. Real emotions. Real characters. Real resolution! But with one unbelievable flaw. No where will you find a podunk town where everyone is pro gay. That is my only problem with Big Eden.
wish i could TOUCH these two hotties, honey
I think that’s why I liked “Broke Back Mountain” a movie with obvious substance; characters that had substance.
I read the novel, and it’s a sweet tale of two teenage boys who fall in love. Complications ensue. It is what it is, and I’m looking forward to seeing the movie.