And yet the book also recognizes that there are people who think they are doing the most but are part of the problem. In Red, White & Royal Blue the main characters are rich and successful and come from marginalized communities but are framed as always keeping those communities top of mind. And I do not mean that in an entirely figurative sense either, this book is not erotica but some of these scenes were very steamy and I kinda liked it. It’s a world with romance and stakes that feel high, but without the same tension as our world because look, there’s a female president and she her biracial kids are successful millennials and the whole book is just a shiny happy look at the world, one which is a certain brand of white liberals wet dream.
Inside the world of Red, White & Royal Blue I found a marvelous and somewhat escapist version of the world, one that was difficult to live in, sure, but so much brighter than the one I feel I’m in now. I wanted fluff, I wanted romance, and I desperately, desperately, wanted to escape the pressures of my internal life, the world around me and the weight that 2020 and the increasingly worse years before it have cast upon myself. And when faced with the prospect of reading another article about how screwed we are and how the end is nigh because we’re destroying the planet I finally picked it up off the shelf and threw myself into it with a vengeance.
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