The Prince of Keegan Bay
Veronica Helen HartMystery
Available from Champagne Books
ISBN: 9781928881863
March 2011
| The prince of Kushawa has been born in secret to an American mother and a dead Kushawa prince. He must live at least five months to take his place in the royal family. Until then, it's open season on him. The current nineteen princes want him dead to keep him from sharing in oil money. Desperate to keep him alive, his mother is trying to keep the royal family from finding out that he exists. Moira comes to stay with her mother, who lives in a seniors only manufactured home park. When she thinks she sees the bad guys hanging around, she heads out to try to draw them away, leaving the baby with her grandmother.
Given the premise, I thought this would be a fun book. I didn't really find it to be. It could be, but it feels like many potentially funny situations aren't carried through. Others might feel differently. It flows well, though slowly. There are a lot of switches between two different situations which is handled well. I thought the main characters were fleshed out well, but there are a lot of secondary characters, many that we see just once. Its hard to develop a character in that small of space. Once the seniors find out about the baby it triggers a course of action that eventually involves most of the inhabitants of Keegan's Bay. The system they set up has one half that make sense, and one half that seems like over kill. The cooperation between the various people is nice to see. Several relationships are started, but none get very far. The ending is good, lots of people running around in a lot of different directions including operatives from two different organizations, a security company, lots of seniors and the reunion of child and mother. Overall I just wasn't crazy about this book. It feels like a good book without the spices it needs. Just a little bland.
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Reviewer: B. McBride |
