Cannonball Read 18

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I think I loved it even more on a re-read

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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My original, and extremely enthusiastic review of this book, can be found here. This was my first re-read (of what I’m sure will be many) and this time, I chose to listen to the audio book. When I first listened to the sample available on Audible, I was honestly not sure if I liked Ramon de Ocampo’s narration, but after seeing the audio book of this highlighted on a bunch of best of the year lists, I decided to give him a chance. Of course, the […]

How do you know it will be any different? Because it has to be.

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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I had a lot of expectations going into reading Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue and the good news is that it was even more delightful than I expected.  In times like these, it was wonderful to be able to immerse myself in a slightly more positive alternative universe (think Great British Bakeoff meets Madame Secretary) and truthfully, I did not want to leave. For those of you who haven’t read it or read one of the many Cannonball Read reviews of it, the […]

In order from most adored to least

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Three romances to start off my reviews for the year. I ended 2019 with at least ten books I never got around to writing up, so I am going to try to keep on top of it better this year. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston: 5/5 I don’t know that I have much to add about this book that hasn’t been said by other Cannonballers. The adjective that repeatedly comes to mind for this book is ‘fizzy’. Each of the books in […]

We’re all obsessed with this, right?

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Like, 100%, right? I’m in a Slack group and all the book club channel can talk about is this book so then it was on Kindle sale and I don’t even like romance but whatevs I bought it and then it was just supposed to be a mindless book in between Big Important books from the library but fuck it I wanted to read Red, White & Royal Blue ALL THE TIME because this book? Is the most adorable thing in the world. McQuiston manages to balance pop culture […]

“And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Can you believe it? Sometimes, even now, I still can’t.”

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Next up on my Diverse Romance reads is Red, White, & Royal Blue. McQuiston wrote Red, White, & Royal Blue with the intention of making it queer, and making it queer in the way she wished she had read for herself as she was finding her own identity. Her care shows in every step of the novel and its going to be tough for another book to be better than this one this year. Red, White, & Royal Blue has a great premise – what […]

All Y’all’s Rave Reviews Finally Got Me

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Red, White, & Royal Blue had been on my radar for a few months now, but when I picked up a copy at the bookstore and flipped through the first few pages, I thought it was a case of misplaced hype. Alex acts like such a dick to Henry in the first chapter, for seemingly no good reason, that I was turned off by the whole dynamic. Not to mention, the adult son of the president should know better than to get drunk at an […]



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