This is the second in Julia London's "A Royal Wedding" series. I had enjoyed the first book so much that I was looking forward the the second but it was a great disappointment to me.

The first book was delightful and introduced this book's heroine, Caro aka Lady Caroline Hawke. I kind of liked Caro in the first book (a funny and generous BFF character) but I did not like her at all in book two. The second book (the one I'm reviewing here) started out with Caro plotting ways to steal the spotlight from her best friend on her BFF's wedding day! And then for the whole first half of the book (except when she was sick) she was mostly just self-involved, overly full of herself and, at least to me, annoying.

Leo, aka Prince Leopold was also unlikable for most of the beginning of the book, although his redemption at least started earlier.

So basically Caro and Leo don't like each other then have a bunch of misunderstandings and get in a heap of trouble and then fall in love... but (spoiler alert) before their happy ending it seems like they are going to be "tragically" separated for good and then in the last couple pages they have their happy ending. Which is the least fulfilling romance ending I remember ever reading... especially when followed by the epilogue, which was the worst romance epilogue I ever remember reading.

Don't let this book throw you off Julia London though. She normally writes excellent and entertaining books. The first book is great. This one is terrible. I have to wonder if she was unable to write for some reason and someone else wrote it for her under her name so she could meet a deadline or something.

People who just want to read a royal romance and don't need to love the characters.

The cover is pretty.

Mostly covered in the summary.

Ask Julia London if she really wrote this book herself.

Frustrated. Incredulous. Disappointed.

Normally writes witty and fun historic romance books that I have enjoyed in the past.

From Amazon: "Julia London is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the popular Secrets of Hadley Green series, the Cabot Sisters series and The Highland Grooms historical romance series. She also wrote the Pine River and the Lake Haven contemporary romance series. She is a six time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award for excellence in romantic fiction, and RT Bookclub award recipient for Best Historical Romance for Dangerous Gentleman. She lives in Austin, Texas."

It's not a fun read. But I DO recommend the first book im the series. It was hilarious, fun and romantic.

I borrowed this book from my local library.

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