Review: A Fun Adventure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Roman Holiday: The Complete Adventure by Ruthie Knox, is the entire 10 chapter serial in one book. You finally get to read all of Roman and Ashley’s adventure as she tries to convince Roman to not demolish the home she knew only to build a resort that will not keep anything of what she loved growing up.Now you will go through the entire trip with Roman and get to meet all of Ashley’s crazy friends who live in the Georgia Swamps, have Roman get scared by an alligator he thinks is going to attack him while there, but is in fact domesticated and likes to play ball. How Ashley and her friend Mitzi come up with a plan and a lie to keep Roman from building as long as possible until she can change his mind.While taking a road trip with Roman pulling her Airstream behind his Escalade around the country while she takes him to visit the many regulars that would stay with her grandmother. But now Ashley will also learn many things she ignored about her friends and learn about what really happened with her grandmother and why she sold her home to Roman instead of leaving it to her as she has promised.Then comes in her father the politician whom she can’t seem to find common ground and is always an embarrassment to. But there is more behind the story than even she thinks, where she will learn how she was also responsible for the emotional separation between her father and her. And she will have to learn to give as well as receive.Not to mention the attraction that Roman has been trying to ignore in order to rise above his beginnings. And attraction that Ashley uses to her advantage and then doesn’t know how to take to the next level for what begins as a simple hookup which she is used to, grows into much more.I liked the Roman Holiday for it’s many facets and adventures, even if I didn’t like Ashley that much. She had no self-respect and self-value, which I really didn’t like. I don’t like to judge but I really idn’t like how she would not care about sleeping around just to scratch an itch. She never cared who she slept with or what would happen next, which is not the way Roman is. I understand following an attraction, but trying to sleep with him even though she knew he was in a relationship, and tempting him just devalued her in my point of view. I think it doesn’t matter where a person comes from or the family they came from, what truly matters is the feelings and values underneath it all. But regardless, I liked the story and it’s ending.Roman Holiday is an adventure waiting to happen and lessons to be learned along the way for both Roman and Ashley, a discovery of who they really are and where they want to go in life.