The Santina Crown (9 books in series)
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review 1: 3 1/2 stars. An enjoyable character-driven romance. Princess Natalia and Ben Jackson both have painful issues with living in the limelight, but they've reacted in very different ways: Ben is carefully private, while Natalia puts on a constant scandalous public act, so that no one...
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review 1: Allegra Jackson refuses advances from her boss and she is terminated. She desperately searches for another job, and this leads to a chance meeting with Prince Alessandro Santina. She absentmindedly wanders into a private club to sit and gather her thoughts and is later confronted...
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review 1: Playing the Royal Game by Carol Marinelli 4 STARSPlaying the Royal Game is the last book in the The Santina Crown series I believe. It is the first one I have read and now I wish I had read the others. They sound interesting and fun.Allegra Jackson was having a rotten day. She ha...
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review 1: 3.5 stars -- it was interesting to have a heroine who felt unwanted not b/c of her looks, but b/c her upbringing all led to one event and when that didn't happen...well, she was kind of lost. It was different, I enjoyed it. Anna and Leo were an interesting pair, such opposites ...
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review 1: banal & overwrought. very little on actual action, the majority of the book is repetitive inner dialogue coupled with jagged POV jumps. like others, i only finished reading because it was the first in the series - i wanted to quit after the first two chapters barely got the cou...
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review 1: I agree with some of the other comments. There should be a follow-up, it kind of finished too soon! The final book of the series does have an "update" on them saying that they hadn't decided whether to have any children because they're working on their relationship first. It ...
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review 1: Hassan thinks Ella's family is rotten but he is still attracted to her. They meet at her sister's engagement party, they have a one night stand and a few months later Ella finds out she is pregnant. They get married but both are hard and unemotional and they avoid expressing thei...
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review 1: A nice enough story.Sheikh Hassan Al Abbas does not like the family, but Ella Jackson seems to be a glorified party girl. Of course, sleeping with her might have been a mistake, but finding out she is carrying his heir makes him determined to have her. Ella can not help what fami...
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review 1: In a few words, this is, in my opinion, the best book of the series, along with Playing the royal game.Izzy was a great heroine an Matteo, oh, Matteo...I read the whole series in both english and spanish languages, and I have to say that the story touched me deeply. Izzy is so un...