This pretty much a cinderella type story, but it starts with her waking up married in Vegas with no memory of the day before.I loved Max and his confidence of who he was and of his destiny. I liked Phoenix but it took her ages to get her memory back and was a little annoying at times.I liked that Max was always there for her, he was the strong one, willing to do anything to keep them together forever. Phoenix has a fun warm nature that brings people out, a remnant of having to make friends quickly as she was on the road a lot with her parents.As a pair they compliment each other perfectly and give the story a new twist of happiness. 3/5A cute but pretty bog standard royal romance. If you like easy-to-read royal romance chic-flicks (like I do) then this won't disappoint. But it won't set any heather alight either.Plot: Comical idea about waking up in vegas, without memory of the night before. It gives the novel a little edge, a funny humour to it. But lets be honest here, amnesia in romance flicks is hardly unheard of; what makes it slightly more original and useful for this novel purposes is the insertion of 'royal' into play.Only problem was the repetition (SPOILER ALERT!), especially in the she-runs-away idea twice. I mean, once is a charm, twice is an author running dry on fresh ideas to shift the plot along to a conclusion!Characters: explored, and largely consistent. But they seem to fall slightly flat. Not because they don't have back-stories to be explored, they really do! Its more because the author insists on 'telling' rather than 'painting/revealing' those back-stories to us. It makes them feel more flat than otherwise may have been. But they do work, they are fun and human. Generally the fairy-story element was well developed, and you could really picture this European Arch-Duchy as being as real as Luxembourg or Lichtenstein. The back-drop worked very well, and kept the novel alive when the novel may have stuttered in the final third.All in all, if the royal romance, or just general romance genre is your thing, this is definitely a book you must read. It ticks all those boxes. Although I shall say, for the record, £4.99 I paid for this on my kindle was a bit too steep...
What do You think about Waking Up In Vegas (2013)?
Just an okay read. Wish I had known it was a royal book, not really a fan of prince/princess books.
—darnellanderson66
