Catriona’s Reviews > Red, White & Royal Blue > Status Update

“…he reaches out to touch his face […] and thinks about holding the Bible at his mother’s inauguration with the same hand.”

So you don’t have to like the book that’s 1000% okay but I defy anyone to say that the way Casey writes so viscerally about love doesn’t feel like a sucker punch straight to the solar plexus holy shit

“You are good.”

‘And there Henry is, in the flesh, as classically handsome as ever in his three-piece suit, all tousled sandy hair and high cheekbones and a soft, friendly mouth. He holds himself with innately impeccable posture, as if he emerged fully formed and upright out of some beautiful Buckingham Palace posy garden one day.’ 🫠❤️

I’m annotating an old copy and I definitely just highlighted an entire page of beautiful metaphor. 🙏