Red, White & Royal Blue

By: Casey McQuiston

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Casey McQuiston's royally romantic enemies to lovers bestseller. Now a Prime Original movie starring Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Uma Thurman, and Stephen Fry.

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?

Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic, a genius – pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House ever since his mother first became President of the United States. There’s only one problem. When the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between Alex and Prince Henry, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.

Heads of family and state devise a plan for damage control: stage a truce. But what begins as a fake, Instagrammable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon they are hurtling into a secret romance that could derail the presidential campaign and upend two nations.

©2019 Casey McQuiston (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Critic reviews

"Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty and thrilling. I loved every second." (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of Daisy Jones & The Six)

A heartwarming love story

This is a feel good book. It tells the story of love overcoming prejudice against all odds.

Amazing

This is the 15th time I've listened to this book and I'll keep coming back to it. I absolutely adore it.

Excellent queer rom-com book!

As a rom-com book, it's great, a sweet story, relatable human characters, and a good pace. Has to be read with that on mind, since in reality we know the monarchy will never accept a gay prince, they even struggled with a mixed race marriage!

It's great to see queer and specially bi visibility in mainstream media, loved the Amazon film as well. it makes me happy that the new generations have books and films they can look after, growing up, where they can see themselves represented, something that was unthinkable for older millennials and above.

The narrator was good, he made a good effort to try the British and Mexican Spanish accent, although in the latter he struggled a bit (not all rs are rolled in Spanish), but overall he did a good job in differentiate character voices.

Excellent Naration

I like the story mostly but the narrator makes it pop and come to life. Instead of the bubblegum sweetness of the story just being that, it becomes more realistic, socially acute, and profoundly emotional.

My absolute fav read/listen

This book and the movie stole my heart and restored my faith in so many things. Thank you.