Saturday, 30 August 2025

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

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I got this from the library because I wanted to know what the fuss about Red, White & Royal Blue was all about, but they didn’t have a copy of that.


This is a story about the “Europe” I think Americans imagine – the context is this food and wine coach tour which takes you to the best artisan bakery, the little family run winery, the cheese shop that has been in the family for 14 generations – where everyone has a creative flair. It is a tour that would cost ten probably twenty thousand pounds plus – and maybe because Theo and Kit both come from very wealthy backgrounds maybe they would have booked this tour when anyone else in their early twenties would be Inter-Railing on a 50 Euros a day budget…


At some point in each chapter the story diverts from the descriptions of the fine wines to descriptions very fine sex, I am a sex positive person and maybe if I hadn’t been reading it on a plane then turning a page and finding myself emerges scenes of pegging would not have got me flustered.


It is a turn pager, but it didn’t click for me.