Book Review: Red, White & Royal Blue

Review by Prateek Sachdeva, BAJMC 2nd Year

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”

In 2021, I discovered ‘The Song of Achilles’ (thanks to Jack Edwards’ YouTube channel) and the book shattered my heart into million little pieces, and I loved every second of it. This was essentially the first book with good LGBTQ+ representation that I had read. But this also made me realize how little the community was represented in mainstream books and films, and how interesting queer stories are. So, in 2022, I promised myself to read more Achillean and Sapphic books and novels. However, I also got into a reading slump and I wasn’t able to finish any books I started this year until I discovered ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ by Casey McQuiston (thanks to Jack Edwards again), and I finished the whole book in less than 24 hours.