Same with the worldbuilding: The first chapter is about the US president's son going to a royal wedding where he sees his rival, the prince, and little time is spent on the royal wedding itself or the supporting characters one might find at such a gathering or the political dynamics or anything else, it's just the main character being reminded he has to go to the royal wedding this weekend, and then thinking about how much he hates his rival and then they're meeting and bantering again. Meeting the characters felt more like a fanfic where the author assumes you know who these people are already, rather than giving a lot of history or physical description. Things that read as giveaways: the pacing, amount of dialogue, and type of banter feel like a million popular slash fics. The rest of the book might not be as blatant, but it didn't take long at all to pick up on it. I've only read the first chapter so far and it was so obvious that the author wrote fic. This was confirmed by readers of the book-for better or for worse!
When the synopsis for the book was released, people in fandom quickly began noting that many aspects of it were strongly reminiscent of fanfic and fanfic tropes. 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?Ĭasey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond.
Handsome, charismatic, genius-his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
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