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The Royal Road (2013)

by Robin Saxon(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1623803055 (ISBN13: 9781623803056)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: I have to admit that when I first started reading The Royal Road, I got half way through Chapter One and put it down. The book started with two separate stories and I was confused. The next day I picked the book back up, and fell in love. There are parallel stories going on throughout the tale. And it is very fun.Weston is an artist who designs mascots. He dreams of being a writer. Problem is, what he writes is crap. Enter Sidney, a consultant hired by the firm where Weston works to improve productivity. At the same time, Weston begins having bizarre dreams about fictional characters that seem to have a little too much relevance in the real world.As I said, it was a fun read. This is Saxon’s first solo novel, and I sure hope it won’t be the last. The characters were we... morell developed and very likeable. The story moved well and kept me engaged.
review 2: I am deeply confused with this book. It was good, it was, but no one will ever say this is the classic, stereotypical romance. And how very ironic that is.As the blurb says, Weston, a designer by day aspired author by night, is having rough time writing. His attempts end up being all cliché and stereotypes. He has the ideas, but he fails putting them with words. And to top it all, Sidney, the new productivity consultant, invades his dreams. As Weston’s feelings for Sidney changes, so does the dreams, taking a more romantic route and changing Sidney from the near villain to an idol worth the worship. In the end Weston is feeling somewhat confused, because he let his fantasies raise expectations from Sidney, and that is not fair to the man. After all, like we all do, he has flaws and is not perfect. Unless Weston sees the perfection within the flaws.Now, nothing confusing so far right? Unfortunately for me, reading this book was like reading three short stories within the novel with the added addition of the novel itself. Weston’s dreams were very, very detailed, to the point where while this novel is categorized as contemporary, in reality you get a high fantasy shorty, a noir fiction and a sci-fi one. These are the dreams in order and after all that follows the actual story of Weston and Sidney. So in all honesty I kind of felt a bit bored in between start to finish. I read the dream this crazy author character had and I knew what was going to follow in the actual plot. It was indeed a tribute to Freud and Jung and although greatly pulled, it got a bit annoying. Made me feel like giving Weston a good shake so that he’d gather his wits about.Moving beyond the dreams though I had some difficulty liking the characters at the beginning. There was not much to them and Weston took much of the place with his crazed persona leaving no room for Sidney. But as the story unfolds we get to see an odd combination of a pair. Weston is this overthinking guy, whose fantasy is way overworking and that makes him usually the odd one, while Sidney is the very opposite. Shy and calm, he centers Weston and an admittedly beautiful balance is achieved. In the end they are just beautiful together and I was so very relieved, yes! relieved, to see Weston settle into a somewhat normal version of himself.Bottom end, while this story was a good one, it was also a bit tiresome with all the dreams and all. Calling this book a light reading will never do, but in the end it did left satisfied. It certainly was a well-worn romance told with a very unique and interesting way.Thommie less

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