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Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
3.0

This book didn't live up to the hype.
Was it a fun read? yes.
Did it have moments where I genuinely enjoyed it? yes.
Would I recommend it? eh...?

I found this enjoyable for the same reasons I often find fanfiction enjoyable. I'm more wrapped up in the events of the book then the characters per say. I have my cookie cutter mold of what these characters are and don't need it to be expanded upon.
This is where this book fell short for me. Everyone outside of Alex (and honestly Henry) felt like interesting and unique individuals.

More then once I found myself thinking about how much more interesting it would be to be on the periphery of these events rather then from Alex's Point of View. I know at the end I was thinking about how much more entertaining this book would have been through Shaan and Zahra's point of views.
Like legitimately the whole Climax could have been Zahra learning that Shaan had known they were dating all along and had been helping them sneak around behind her back.

This was a fun listen, it just wasn't as good as it could have been.