(Alex is an Aries sun with a Leo rising.) She also recently debuted a series of Spotify playlists dedicated to each of the characters. Essential details like their Hogwarts houses, zodiac signs, and Myers-Briggs types. McQuiston actively engages the book’s loyal followers by doling out Easter eggs about her characters on Twitter. After one editor raved about the book, a staff-wide waitlist sprang up as we circulated one dogeared copy around the office.)įor now she’s reveling in her runaway success. (I saw the power of that first-hand at Glamour. With seven printings and 100,000 copies in circulation, the book’s popularity was fueled the old-fashioned way: by word of mouth. Without an Instagram endorsement from Reese Witherspoon, a shout-out on Today from Jenna Bush Hager, or any major traditional publicity pushes, Casey McQuiston’s debut romance novel about the First Son of the United States and the Prince of Wales managed to do what few books in any genre manage-it went viral. Red, White & Royal Blue is the little novel that could. First there was Twitter chatter, then came the New York Times best-seller list, and soon a film adaptation was in the works.
But while we’ve reclaimed the rom-com in film, these books are still often relegated to being “guilty pleasures” or considered “mommy porn.” This week we’re discussing these overlooked, often powerfully feminist books-that just so happen to have a happy ending. In 2016 these novels made up 23% of the overall fiction market, and they consistently out-perform all other genres. 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.Romance is a billion-dollar industry. 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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