You Pop-Culture Loving Homosexuals Are Slipping: No Threads About Red, White and Royal Blue

I received an ARC of Red White And Royal Blue. Read and forgot it instantly. It's YA primed for a Netflix movie.

Sorry op, only old people read books now.

And who do you think posts on Datalounge R2?

This book is aimed at fraus, not gay men, that’s why, OP.

So was "Queer As Folk" R4, but that certainly gets discussed here enough.

It's aimed at 19-year-old girls

I liked it...

I just finished this book! I really like it!!! Highly recommend.

Megan Markle is just a castrating moll just as bad as—

I brought it up in the gay-themed novels thread. It sucks.

I liked it.

Which one is the bottom?

[Quote] This book is aimed at fraus, not gay men, that’s why, OP.

This is why Pete will win. He's popular with the women. They love Chasten too.

More neutered-gays light comedy for straights. Hated it. It got massive promotion because it's fluff. Corporate publisher knows how to churn out innocuous drivel.

It reads like BRF fanfic. I would bet you a hundred bucks the author has a Tumblr, or did.

[quote]It's YA primed for a Netflix movie.

It’s a little raunchy for YA, what with the prince jetting around with travel-size lube in his royal toiletry kit.

Is it like that stupid AnnE Hathaway movie where Julie Andrews was her grandmother? Except AnnE is played by a guy?

How are the sex passages?

Kind of, R17, but with more parental involvement.

written by a frauette

R18 Very tame! I am reading the book right now... I could barely figure out the two was fucking and it was over. It's like those rom-com movies where the couple make out a bit and next thing you know they are making post-coital small talk.

The author took her cues from the CMBYN “cut to the window” school of homosex.

It's pure politically correct frau fantasy with the half-Mexican first son, the Mary Stu, topping the big strapping white prince.

[quote]written by a frauette

That didn't stop DL orgasaming over Brokeback Mountain.

r1 Apparently Amazon already bought the rights.

Who do we think will be cast in this thing?

r26 Time travelling Tyler Posey and Will Mosely. Other than that I've no idea. Doubt it's going to be a project actors will be kicking the studio door down for. So they'll probably be pretty unknown.

The first son will be played by Noah Centineo. I pictured someone blond as the prince—not anyone famous, but someone as pretty as a young Charlie Hunnam or Alex Prettifer.

[quote]written by a frauette

Per her bio she’s bisexual/genderfluid. Or she claims.

[quote] she/they

Don't think I've ever seen that particular pronoun combo before.

Froy Gutierrez for half-Mexican Alex!

Little Charlie Stemp will play the British prince. It's time for him to become a breakout star.

For Prince Henry, British actor Harris Dickinson from gay film Beach Rats. He also played the prince in Maleficient 2.

This book SUCKED. The writing is super awkward and there are some very clunky passages and word choices. It almost is like this book was written by auto fill. It is as realistic as Lord of the Rings. And the frauette author insisted on making Alex bisexual which was a joke. He refers to himself as “bi” throughout the book and it’s super irritating. Fiction for total dummies.

Does she try to write them fucking or is it just a literary "camera pans to open window" ?

R33 Harris is delicious

R35 She writes about the foreplay but then glosses over the sex act itself by describing how the character feels during the sex instead of the physical sex act itself.

R35 She...tries? There’s a ton of talking dirty and foreplay and maybe a paragraph of not-very-detailed fucking and three pages of them smoking the proverbial cigarette.

Great minds, R37.

[quote]He refers to himself as “bi” throughout the book and it’s super irritating.

Also irritating: The fact that (SPOILER ALERT) he basically gets engaged to the prince at age 21. I don’t care how hot the sex is, that is way fucking young.

Five and a half months after my original post, I am getting some answers, lol.

Not surprised that the book is James Patterson novel-level awful. Most "beach reads" are.

[quote] he basically gets engaged to the prince at age 21. I don’t care how hot the sex is, that is way fucking young.

You mean too OLD, right?

The most over-hyped piece of tripe since goat milk soap.

[quote]Not surprised that the book is James Patterson novel-level awful.

Nothing is [italic]that[/italic] bad.

The prince is a thinly disguised, better-looking gay Prince Harry.

Best books of 2019? Really, VF?

Let me guess who will be in bed with the film version’s publicity team.

Their notoriously aggressive PR campaign included mailed boxes of chocolates, incessant emails and follow-up phone calls, and a flood of online ads and fake social media accounts lavishing praise on it. They also gave away hundreds of ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) to the frau denizens on GoodReads.

Corporate publishers love to promote neutered gay characters penned by women. It's safer than having to deal with gay male authors and ("eww!") actual gay sex scenes. OP is just another tentacle of their sprawling PR campaign.

I'd prefer George MacKay as the prince.

R48 He looks like an anorexic Ron Weasley.

Well, if you want somebody with some meat on him, there's MacKay's 1917 co-star, Dean-Charles Chapman.

After 400+ pages, we never even find out if the boys are cut or uncut...

Is he one of those "I was totally straight until I met the only guy in the world that got me hard" bisexuals or the "I am really gay but can't admit it" bisexuals? The frau really love the first type because the "one true love" myth gets them all wet (plus they secretly hope that hey can land some hot guy someday)...

You have odd tastes YMF.

[quote]Is he one of those "I was totally straight until I met the only guy in the world that got me hard" bisexuals

Ding ding ding. Plus he spends his high school days banging his best friend and yet somehow thinks he’s still straight.

[quote] Henry Fox-Montchristen-Windsor

r45 Thinly disguised is right.

Isn’t Harry’s given name Henry?

I picked the book up while browsing the gay fiction section. It sounded interesting, but I had no idea it was any kind of big hit with women.

Fan-made wiki that includes a (poorly written) plot summary.

r56 Henry Charles Albert David.

These days in publishing , only the worst shits float.

r58 If that summary is accurate, the plot seems both pedestrian and idiotic - like novel length fan fiction. I chucked at the line about his high school fuckbuddy - "Alex also contacts Liam, his friend from high school with whom he had sexual experiences that he did not understand at the time." - no red flags there...

R61 Novel-length fanfiction is exactly what this is.

Actually, it is like a fanfic inspired by a crossover of Madame Secretary and The Royals (that E! series). Her understanding of how the White House and the Royal Family work seems to come from watching TV shows anyway! LOL

So, I read a bit of it. I didn't care for the writing style and realized the subject matter is probably not for me. It's certainly better than the little bits I read of Twilight and 50 Shades, but that's not saying a whole lot. If you're looking for some light reading, and enjoy gay romances featuring young adults then it's probably worth looking at the sample on Amazon to see if it's your thing.

I’m a frau and it’s not on my radar. Not even my sister in law talked about it. She’s on some other book, some woke thing.

Actually this type of overly sweet rom-com novel appeals more to fangurls. Fraus into the m/m genre would want more hardcore stuff.

Fangurls of whom?

Fangurls of "cute boys in love" wherever they could find them in tv shows, movies, books, real life... The fangurls are even writing fanfics of this novel.

R66, most fraus aren't into "hardcore" - their idea if hardcore is Fifty Shades of Grey