About Author Casey McQuiston (Author)Ĭasey McQuiston is the author of Red White and Royal Blue Book PDF, she was born on January 21, 1991, and grew up in the United States Baton Rouge, Louisiana. if you are looking for a funny, love, political drama novel full of suspense then, Red White And Royal Blue PDF is a highly recommended novel for you. The ending of this novel is awesome as it reveals all the suspense and thrill in the very last part of the novel. The writer keeps the characters and story very simple but it was also highly entertaining throughout the whole story. Its superb characters are believable and tempting. This wonderful fiction book has an excellent power to entertain the reader no matter what age and who is reading. The main character is Alex who’s the younger of the two siblings and is the first son of the United States America’s first female president, he starts out hating but later falls in love with the Prince of Britain Henry. It’s set in the fantastical alternate universe in which the 2016 election was won by a woman who is divorced her ex-husband is Mexican-American and a congressman so their two children are biracial.
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To a certain degree, that is a valid stance to take but, ultimately, if you continue that way, you won’t have (m)any readers. I am reminded of Will Self who famously said I don’t really write for readers. I felt that it did not work in her first book. Experiment is good but, when it does not really work, it is not. But good authors use language in various ways to make their point and some succeed and some do not. Using language in various ways is, of course, one of the hallmarks of twentieth and twenty-first century literature and there are quite a few books on this site that do so. Difficult to read? Must be great and original, then. I found its main use was to make the book difficult to read without adding anything to it. McBride used her disjointed style throughout the novel. Joyce used, for example, baby talk at the beginning of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to good effect but only for a short section. It was not, not least because Joyce had done it a hundred years ago. 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