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2.0 out of 5 stars
So very bland...no life in this book, February 7, 2011
I took a gamble on this one because there were no reviews here on Amazon and I had to search and finally found one or two on other sites and they said good things. But I'm indifferent.
Valentina is the crown princess of Chantaine, a principality that sounds like a made up version of Monaco. She went to school in Texas of all places and visits her old college roommate in Dallas for a weekend at a party. Valentina is the face of her country. The responsible royal who's the go to for appearances because her 4 siblings are some of the most selfish individuals on the planet. Her brother is useless as the reigning monarch and would rather punk out and hide behind his sisters skirts so he doesn't have to make appearances and her sisters are mini Paris Hiltons who just want to party hardy and let Valentina shoulder ALL the scrutiny and burden of traveling and appearances.
Valentina finally doesn't something for herself in visiting Keely in Dallas and meets Zachary Logan and she's just intrigued by a handsome guy who doesn't know she's a princess. They sleep together and she leaves the next morning to finish helping her sister plan her wedding but with the world watching the ultimate party/former rehab royal finally setting down they can't help but notice the good girl princess's growing waistline. Zach notices a gossip magazine, recognizes his mysterious Tina from months before and puts two and two together.
It WAS good but then it wasn't. I like to read romance novels for just that...the romance. Zachary Logan the "hero" in this story is a strange character. He's kind of hard to like. You like him at first, taking charge and coming to Valentina's rescue but you HATE him keeping mum on his dark past. It wasn't THAT big of a deal but he keep mum and kept Valentina at a distance except to have sex with her.
SPOILER(and trust me, you may as well read it because it's SO minuscule it's not really spoiling anything you care about).
Zach's big secret is that his wife and unborn baby died. His wife had bipolar and he didn't know it until the pregnancy heightened her high and low moods and her parents didn't tell him and he feels guilty thinking he could control her moods as if he REALLY could.
END SPOILER
So, he made a big deal out of nothing. What's more it's awful that Zach NEVER reveals his secret. Valentina has to hear the truth from her friend Keely and Zach's nosy housekeeper who realize that she should know his past since she's having his baby.
He keeps asking her to marry him and he's cold and detached and adamant on not being in love with Valentina but just wanting to get married because it;s the right thing to do.
It was good for about 20 pages then it was just running in circles and no real progresses of a love story and the ending just ties it up all quickie like they REALLY fell in love when there was no build up to it. Zach is an okay character at the beginning then he nosedives and Valentina is bland as the heroine. She does good community work but she's like plain yogurt. Just bland. No passion, no energy.
Overall, eh.
I'm disappointed because I didn't feel these two fall in love. Not even falling in lust. Just two people needing sex and the sex scenes were SO passionless just like this story.
Just bland. No passion, no energy is the sum of Royal Holiday Baby
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