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Koninklijke Verrassing (2012)

by Melissa McClone(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Romance

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Harlequin Bouquet

review 1: It was a good book. I loved the long lost princess theme and the heroine's personality was amazing. Unlike most harlequin romances, she didn't instantly fall for the hero. She stood up for herself and went as far as to insult him. Also, she wasn't a polite, broken girl. She was improper, driven, and down-to-earth. I feel like she thinks more like someone in this day and age than most other romance novels. The prince was getting married to a princess at the start of the book. The only thing that was keeping Niko from Princess Julianna was the customary box he would present his wife with when they get married. The King reveals that it's missing because he had already presented it to his wife... when he was a toddler. The King tells him not to propose to Julianna because Niko... more has never been in love with her, which utterly confuses him. He didn't want to marry for love but for the good of his country. So Niko flies to the USA to get the box back from his wife who had been swept out of the country twenty years before. His wife, Izzy, is a car mechanic in a small mechanics shop in Charlotte, Carolina. Having been raised by her uncle, she grew up more like a boy than a girl. Her dream was to become a professional pit-stop mechanic in a NASCAR race. It was her uncle's dream, but he turned down many chances to fulfill it to be with her, and when an aneurysm killed him she thought she could fulfill it for him. I feel McClone did a great job with this book. It wasn't my favorite, but she kept my interest peaked throughout the entire book. I highly recommend that you read it.
review 2: This review is from: Expecting Royal Twins! (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)It is kind of ironic that I was reading "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" about the influence of the "princess" phenomena on girls at the same time I was reading Melissa McClone's latest Harlequin Romance. I was conflicted. Here I was reading a modern princess story and worrying about what kind of princess the heroine might be. Would she be a sheltered wallflower? Slightly spoiled? A bad influence? Thankfully, the author gave me a princess who didn't make me feel guilty at all about reading her story!Niko and Izzy's story travels from Nascar country in North Carolina to a Balkan nation that has been through civil war and terrorism. As a North Carolinian, I was pleasantly surprised McClone was able to write a realistic story about a wanna-be female race mechanic and a prince brought together by unusual circumstances. The author's ability to combine Nascar, terrorism, a modern take on what women can do, and fairy tale castles made a story I could literally picture happening and yet helped me escape the world for a little while. That takes a lot with my news obsessed mind.Another review used the word "fresh" as a descriptor for this book and I must agree. Not because I am a North Carolinian either. The hero and heroine had a believable attraction and tension in their relationship. The secondary characters exuded a warmth I really needed. I appreciated the fact that another female character, an obstacle between our hero and heroine, was a genuinely nice person and not a selfish brat to be tossed aside. Not having that sort of tension was a relief for a change and made the book an even more pleasant diversion. It was just such fun to read this budding romance between a fish out of water and a stiff royal who needs his world shaken up a bit.Can't wait for the sequel! less

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