Rome in love
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"When Amelia Tate is cast to play the Audrey Hepburn role in a remake of Roman Holiday, she feels as if all her dreams have come true. She has a handsome boyfriend, is portraying her idol in a major motion picture, and gets to live in beautiful, Italian city of Rome for the next two months. Once there, she befriends a young woman named Sophie with whom she begins to explore the city. Together, they discover all the amazing riches that Rome has to offer. But when Amelia's boyfriend breaks up with her over her acting career, her perfect world begins to crumble.While moping in her hotel suite, Amelia discovers a stack of letters written by Audrey Hepburn that start to put her own life into perspective. Then, she meets Philip, a handsome journalist who is under the impression that she is a hotel maid, and it appears as if things are finally looking up. The problem is she can never find the right time to tell Philip her true identity. Not to mention that Philip has a few secrets of his own. Can Amelia finally have both the career and love that she's always wanted, or will she be forced to choose again?"--provided by publisher.
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Summary
Amelia is a newly discovered movie star, playing the title role in the remake of the beloved movie Roman Holiday. Amelia has everything that a girl could ever want: a gorgeous, rich fiancé who lives in San Francisco, a burgeoning acting career and more money than she can use. One evening, while Amelia is on location in Italy filming Roman Holiday, she decides to escape the media and slips out the back door of her fancy hotel, only to end up strolling the beautiful streets of Rome. There she meets Philip, a struggling journalist from New York who refuses to work for his father's stock brokerage company. When things start to go sour for Amelia, she finds herself more and more drawn to the outdoors of Rome where Philip takes her out for dates across the city.
Review
I was attracted to this book due to its premise and backdrop; however, I was disappointed to discover that it lacked good writing. The book was boring to me, with all of its tedious descriptions of food and clothing. Page upon page, the descriptions took over the majority of the book. As a consequence, the plot was seriously lacking. Amelia's late night escapades, interspersed with sessions of lounging in her lavish hotel room left little room for character development. The characters weren't interesting in the slightest, and I felt nothing towards their struggles and misadventures.
I thought the book was pretentious and self-important with all of its designer names thrown in for good measure. The grammar in the book was appalling, full of run-on sentences, lack of punctuation, and general mistakes. The only French sentence there was in the book had a spelling mistake in it and to me, that is absolutely unacceptable. If the author wanted to include a few sentences in a foreign language, she should have researched it properly before publishing it.
In the end, Rome In Love was boring, pretentious and riddled with bad grammar. If these things don't bother you too much, then by all means, try it out. For me, I couldn't look past them and soon found myself hoping to reach the end.
