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Red, White & Royal Blue

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Red, White & Royal Blue

By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
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* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *

One of
AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019; an Instant New York Times bestseller; a *Must-Read Book* for Us Weekly, Vogue, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Oprahmag.com, and more!

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Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly hopeful love story...Listeners will be swept up as Alex and Henry face questions of identity and coming out amid familial duties and political machinations." — AudioFile Magazine

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.

Praise for Red, White & Royal Blue:

“Effervescent and empowering on all levels, Red, White & Royal Blue is both a well-written love story and a celebration of identity.” — NPR

"I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of Love and Other Words and Roomies

"Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Maybe in Another Life

©2019 Casey McQuiston (P)2019 Macmillan Audio
Romance Romantic Comedy Royalty Funny Feel-Good Heartfelt Fiction

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AudioFile Magazine Editors' Pick

"Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly hopeful love story." -AudioFile Magazine

"I tore through Red, White & Royal Blue as if it were a pint of Ben & Jerry's. By turns hilarious and angst-ridden, buoyant and strikingly real, this novel is a surefire bull’s-eye for any devotee of classic romance, slow burn fanfiction, or heartfelt storytelling. A political love story too timely and too genuine to miss." - Lyndsay Faye, internationally bestselling author of Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham

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I loved this so much. The voices and the characters and the plot own my heart. <333

This legit made me cry

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I loved it the whole way through.
do you know the feeling when your whole body is grinning, that's how I felt reading this book.
beautifully written piece of art.

always worth a reread and definitely one I'll hold dear to my chest for the rest of my life.

love is worth fighting for

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Loved it, finished it in like two days because I couldn't stop! Super sweet and raunchy at the same time. lol

Awesome!

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I’ll start by saying that being half-Hispanic-half-Brit, both the English accents and the Mexican (or Mexican-American) Spanish were very, VERY, difficult to tolerate. Others mentioned the English accents, and I have nothing to add to those comments, but the Spanish words were mispronounced so horribly it made me cringe when the book should’ve made me laugh. If you don’t speak Spanish, let me tell you, we strongly roll our Rs but not every single one of them, there are rules. The narrator rolled all of them like he didn’t know the rules for the strong and soft Rs.
I could’ve accepted the painful English accent if at least the Spanish pronunciation had been OK, but it fails spectacularly in both. I’m usually not tough on narrators because I know I could never do their job, but still… this was so painful to listen! So at one point I stopped and just switched back to reading it.

So, it speaks volumes about how good I found the book that I decided to put up with the cringe-inducing narration when I got so hooked that I couldn’t wait to have the time to read it. It wasn’t enough. If I didn’t have kids or a job, I would’ve finished the book in a day. But those days are behind me (and hopefully also ahead), so I went back to the audiobook, so I could listen to it at times when it would’ve been impossible for me to sit down and read.
The story is uplifting and, from a personal perspective, very relatable. Alex’s character goes through things I went through myself, and the author managed to put into words things I felt but couldn’t express. I loved every minute of this book.

The book is brilliant, the narration just horrible

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Love this book with all my heart. I could listen to it over and over again

Great

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