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A review by arieslofi
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Did not finish book. Stopped at 29%.
this is just genuinely one of the worst books i've read in a long while. i'm happy a lot of you enjoy this for the "fluff" and the "escapism" it brings you, i cannot read this without being reminded the white author is writing from a latino pov, making white people jokes that they've seen on twitter and tumblr, leaving horrid implications as the book goes on, such as the latino character excusing america and its colonial past because "at least" they don't have a monarchy. casey mcquiston's writing is insanely juvenile, making the sex scene (that i skipped to read out of curiosity like a teenager) read like someone who's afraid of sex wrote it—it's all just making out in detail and then being too scared of writing the word cock, or dick, or even penis, and instead using extremely vague language that left me wondering what the fuck they even did, since no one is said to be coming anyway, you just are supposed to know that from the moans and the "implications". they make usage of "tell, don't show" an insane amount of times (seriously, quit telling me alex deals with horrid shit for being half mexican, you never show it happening). they wrote a main character that is so annoying and unlikeable, mostly because this is a white author writing from their pov (genuinely, it sucks, they cannot pull this off), that it genuinely made me stop reading.
it pissed me off that alex didn't know he was bisexual. how do you write 28% of your book in the way you do, with the flirting and etc, and then suddenly give us three whole pages about how he never knew because he was a son of DEMOCRATS so he thought that was normal and he never questioned it, because he's the son of DEMOCRATS.
the overusage of american politics is annoying in and of itself, but when paired up with this fairytale about how democrats are the good ones (they're not, they're fucking centrists), it becomes a headache inducing paradox.
you can have a latino main character, but the president of the united states is a white woman! also the prince has an indian man serving him! that's not weird!!!
tl;dr.: congratulations, you managed to join nightbitch in books that make me violently angry. at least nightbitch was short and wasn't afraid of writing about sex.
it pissed me off that alex didn't know he was bisexual. how do you write 28% of your book in the way you do, with the flirting and etc, and then suddenly give us three whole pages about how he never knew because he was a son of DEMOCRATS so he thought that was normal and he never questioned it, because he's the son of DEMOCRATS.
the overusage of american politics is annoying in and of itself, but when paired up with this fairytale about how democrats are the good ones (they're not, they're fucking centrists), it becomes a headache inducing paradox.
you can have a latino main character, but the president of the united states is a white woman! also the prince has an indian man serving him! that's not weird!!!
tl;dr.: congratulations, you managed to join nightbitch in books that make me violently angry. at least nightbitch was short and wasn't afraid of writing about sex.