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Santa Fe Fandango

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Matti Glover is thrilled to learn that hot Hollywood heartthrob Antonio Reed is not only filming a movie in Santa Fe, but staying in the exclusive complex where she's housesitting.  She rescues him from a busload of teenage girls, and grateful and intrigued, he asks her for a date. Matti's caught up in a Cinderella dream come true—until midnight hits and it's pumpkin time.

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Release dateJun 21, 2011
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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Also, it contains spoilers.At first, I thought this was going to be a cute little chick lit story. In an ideal world Matti, the main character, was going to discover that Antonio, the man she lusted after on the screen, was a great guy but she really was going to fall for his bodyguard. Instead, the bodyguard ends up being boring and unpleasant. Antonio ends up too good to be true, accepting the discovery that she really had been an obsessed fan and forgiving her the next day. Ultimately, there is no lesson learned, and thus no point. Nothing happens during the course of the story, and the cuteness of the main characters actually acts as a detriment to this being an interesting story.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Okay, granted, I requested a book that sounds like a silly young adult romance, but I’ll admit it: I absolutely adored Meg Cabot’s Teen Idol. I was hoping for a fluffy bit of ridiculous fun. I mean, even the cover looks appropriate for a twee little novel.Matti, an artist, is house-sitting for a friend of hers in an exclusive Santa Fe community. Both she and her extremely flaming BFF (so Hollywood-stereotypical that it made me want to barf- I don’t know a single gay man who actually acts like that in real life) are obsessed with an up-and-coming actor named Antonio Reed.When I say obsessed, I mean that she has cardboard stand-ups, posters, all two of his movies that she’s watched more than twenty times, and uses his image as a reference in countless drawings. She’s filled notebooks and canvases with his picture. She gets flustered and self-conscious thinking about him. She’s so goofy over this heartthrob that I honestly thought this girl was 17 and doing a family friend a favor, but noooo. She’s in her late twenties. My age.…and then it turns out that Antonio is there. In Santa Fe. Staying in the same community. Matti sees him walking around, and has the presence of mind- despite her twitterpated response- to warn Antonio about an incoming horde of teenage girls. When she runs into him again at the only restaurant this place apparently has where movie stars are willing to eat, he asks her out, charmed by her lack of crazy-fan-antics.In the meantime, Matti is constantly freaking out over how to not have frantic fan freakouts, because she (rightly) thinks that he doesn’t want to be romantically involved with someone who is only interested in the characters he played and his extremely attractive face.And that, folks, is the entire conflict of the book. She tries to hide it, his bodyguard tries to convince him that she’s one of the nutcases, she gradually becomes less of a crazy fan, they fall in love and WHOA HOLY COW SURPRISE EXPLICIT SEX SCENE.Turns out, not a young adult novel. This is an actual romance novel, fulfilling the expectations of the genre.And then the book just… ends. He finds out she’s a crazy fan, decides he doesn’t care, and they live happily ever after. Within the last 5% of the book. Least interesting climax of all time.However, as I read, I began to put pieces together. The end clinched it.I was reading fanfiction. One of the fanfics written by a girl obsessed with an actor to the point that she writes fiction about the life of a real human being to give greater life to her fantasies about a hot guy. A piece of fiction meant to give the obsessed girl hope that the hot actor will fall in love with her despite the creepy things she’s written about him.And the guy in question? Orlando Bloom. The character’s name is “Antonio Reed.” They are both English, the physical description matches, and their first big movie role was that of the hot, young, supporting character in an ensemble cast (Legolas in Lord of the Rings vs Will Scarlet in Robin Hood). That single role thrust the previously unknown young actor into a whirlwind of interviews and paparazzi. The more I read, the more obvious it became. The whole thing reads like the author’s fantasy about herself and Orlando Bloom. It was honestly a little sad by the time I finished.If you can read it as just a light fantasy romance novel, it’s not terrible. It’s definitely not good, as the poor pacing clearly shows, but it could be worse. But if you’re a person who keeps accidentally finding the trainwrecks of fanfiction about celebrities… eesh.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was a very light read and fairly predictable, definitely a "beach read." The characters were likeable but not as well developed as I had hoped. The ending was a little contrived since the "problem" in the story was very abrupt.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a nice story. It is about Matti who is a painter and also works as a commercial artist to support herself. Matti gets to speand a few days in an exclusive community house-sitting for a friend who is a hollywood designer. Here she runs into her favorite actor and gets to rescue him from a group of teenage fans. The actor asks her to dinner to thank her. Here starts a romance which Matti finds hard to believe. She is afraid that any day he would find out that she was as much of a fan as others. Will they be able to find love??On the whole this is a fantasy all of us have and the author captures it perfectly.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was a quick read and the story line was fairly predictable from the beginning to the end. The characters were likeable, but seemed one dimensional. I would classify it as a "beach book" and recommend to anyone looking for light summer reading.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The plot was predictable and well-worn, and the dialogues left a lot to be desired, but the situations were described quite well and though the ending was obvious from the start, I did read the last page with a smile.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    When I first started reading this book, I was hoping for a nice fluff read. You know those romance books that are by the numbers but are still fun to read. Santa Fe Fandango just didn't have enough interesting characters to fulfill that criteria. It wasn't a horrible book, but it was so mundane that I really couldn't get into it. Usually with these kinds of books I can at least enjoy the characters if not the plot, but the characters just seemed so uninteresting and really, does there always have to be a gay best friend in these books? To be honest, I was hoping that the author was going to flip the switch on me and instead of the main character of Mattie falling for the movie star, she would fall for his bodyguard Rick. Oh well.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A romance novel about a local Santa Fe artist, Matti Glover and the movie star she's had a crush on forever, Antonio Reed. That is the only description I think I should give because if I tell too much more the book is so predictable that you will know immediately how it ends. For fans of Harlequin romance novels, this is the book for you. For everyone else, you will be disappointed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I enjoyed this book; it was a fun light read. The chance meeting of Matti and Antonio grew into a sweet romance until the artifacts of fangirl were revealed. I would have liked more of an ending with a bit more drama. The book seemed to just end when the crises was resolved. This book is a nice summer afternoon read.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    LibraryThing Early Reviewers copy.Romance. Professional woman gets all giddy over a hot moviestar and 'saves' him from a busload of teenaged girls. They then semi-accidentally meet for dinner and, despite his bodyguard's hostility, manage to snatch a quick conversation. I presume a romance ensues but I stopped here. I'm uncomfortable with portraying teenaged girls this way, I'm uncomfortable with the main characters, with the lavish descriptions of hair and clothes and the underlying flavour of hostility to women (those women are evil but I'm not like them).It's quite possible this will appeal to others but I've drifted pretty far from traditional romance novels and this wasn't working for me. It should be acknowledged that Cinderella was never my fantasy :)
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    While housesitting for a friend in an exclusive gated community, Matti Glover rescues teen heart throb Antonio Reed from a troop of Girl Guides. Matti is suddenly living the fangirl daydream of having an actual relationship with the film star. But dating a Hollywood star comes with its own complications.Definitely a fluffy romance novel that shines in some places but falls flat in others. Matti is a perfectly likable heroine, if a little on the passive side, and the descriptions of her artwork are very well done. Antonio is an interesting hero but his character was not given enough depth to satisfy me. The plot is unsurprising and follows the basic pattern of a romance novel but with very little conflict. The necessary conflict that does exist felt contrived, unoriginal, and the explanation for the catalyst of the conflict was hazy. I also felt the supporting characters could have used more depth, particularly Antonio's bodyguard, Rick, who seems to hate Matti for no real reason. However, Groves does an excellent job in terms of the setting of her novel. She gives beautiful descriptions of Santa Fe and the New Mexico desert, and she's also done some research into film making which shows in the details she includes. While predictable and not particularly deep, the novel was enjoyable until the ending. The resolution of the "conflict" was extremely quick, the ending felt patched on, and the "Afterward..." section put too neat a bow on the whole book giving resolutions for characters who were given minimal consideration in the body of the novel. Not a wholly bad book, but the ending was a little too happy and saccharine, even considering the genre.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Fairly predictable romance book where the couple falls for each other and then has a misunderstanding that gets worked out in the end.Matty "saves" Antonoio Reed from a gaggle of school girls in a hotel lobby and when they run into each other again they get together. Bodyguard plays devil's advocate and his publicist appears to have a thing for him.It kept my attention til the end but I just couldn't wrap my head around an englishman with the name of Antonio -- just threw me off every time I read the name!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I got this book from the Early Reviewers Program, but I probably wouldn't have bought it myself as I don't read a lot of "chick-lit". However, I enjoyed reading this book, and would recommend it as a nice, fluffy, in-between, beach read. The plot is very predictable, but that is probably exactly why it's such an easy read. I do see this becoming a great romantic comedy, starring a hunky Hollywood star!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Maybe I was just in the right frame of mind, but I enjoyed this book a lot more than other reviewers I've seen did. You have to realize what it is going in... It's a romance novel. Does that mean it's overly predictable? Of course. So?If you're looking for a light summer read, this one is enjoyable. Just about everyone has had a crush on a star at some point in their lives (even if it was back in high school). The lead character in this book lives that dream for a bit and I was entertained for a couple hours. It's a fun, light read.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Sante Fe Fandango is a really light quick read. The story and characters are very likeable-I wanted to finish the book to see what happened to them. That said, the book was in need of further editing which made it difficult to read at times. Also, the graphic sexual descriptions were not necessary for the story. If you want something to read quickly on a day off, this book is for you. Despite what I said about the writing, I am glad that I read it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Okay, granted, I requested a book that sounds like a silly young adult romance, but I’ll admit it: I absolutely adored Meg Cabot’s Teen Idol. I was hoping for a fluffy bit of ridiculous fun. I mean, even the cover looks appropriate for a twee little novel.Matti, an artist, is house-sitting for a friend of hers in an exclusive Santa Fe community. Both she and her extremely flaming BFF (so Hollywood-stereotypical that it made me want to barf- I don’t know a single gay man who actually acts like that in real life) are obsessed with an up-and-coming actor named Antonio Reed.When I say obsessed, I mean that she has cardboard stand-ups, posters, all two of his movies that she’s watched more than twenty times, and uses his image as a reference in countless drawings. She’s filled notebooks and canvases with his picture. She gets flustered and self-conscious thinking about him. She’s so goofy over this heartthrob that I honestly thought this girl was 17 and doing a family friend a favor, but noooo. She’s in her late twenties. My age.…and then it turns out that Antonio is there. In Santa Fe. Staying in the same community. Matti sees him walking around, and has the presence of mind- despite her twitterpated response- to warn Antonio about an incoming horde of teenage girls. When she runs into him again at the only restaurant this place apparently has where movie stars are willing to eat, he asks her out, charmed by her lack of crazy-fan-antics.In the meantime, Matti is constantly freaking out over how to not have frantic fan freakouts, because she (rightly) thinks that he doesn’t want to be romantically involved with someone who is only interested in the characters he played and his extremely attractive face.And that, folks, is the entire conflict of the book. She tries to hide it, his bodyguard tries to convince him that she’s one of the nutcases, she gradually becomes less of a crazy fan, they fall in love and WHOA HOLY COW SURPRISE EXPLICIT SEX SCENE.Turns out, not a young adult novel. This is an actual romance novel, fulfilling the expectations of the genre.And then the book just… ends. He finds out she’s a crazy fan, decides he doesn’t care, and they live happily ever after. Within the last 5% of the book. Least interesting climax of all time.However, as I read, I began to put pieces together. The end clinched it.I was reading fanfiction. One of the fanfics written by a girl obsessed with an actor to the point that she writes fiction about the life of a real human being to give greater life to her fantasies about a hot guy. A piece of fiction meant to give the obsessed girl hope that the hot actor will fall in love with her despite the creepy things she’s written about him.And the guy in question? Orlando Bloom. The character’s name is “Antonio Reed.” They are both English, the physical description matches, and their first big movie role was that of the hot, young, supporting character in an ensemble cast (Legolas in Lord of the Rings vs Will Scarlet in Robin Hood). That single role thrust the previously unknown young actor into a whirlwind of interviews and paparazzi. The more I read, the more obvious it became. The whole thing reads like the author’s fantasy about herself and Orlando Bloom. It was honestly a little sad by the time I finished.If you can read it as just a light fantasy romance novel, it’s not terrible. It’s definitely not good, as the poor pacing clearly shows, but it could be worse. But if you’re a person who keeps accidentally finding the trainwrecks of fanfiction about celebrities… eesh.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This romance follows a fairly standard plotline: woman meets handsome hero; they are attracted to each other; have some good sex; fall in love; encounter problem; resolve problem and walk off into the sunset (or in this case, London). It is obviously aimed at readers the same age as, or younger than, the protagonists but to my middle-aged outlook some of the incidents occur in the wrong order. The pacing is also odd: the Problem is encountered at the 95% mark (I read it on my Kindle so I can’t quote page numbers) and at 98% Our Hero apologises and the problem is resolved, or rather brushed aside, and the story stops. So 95% of the book is spent in setting the scene and building up to not very much. It’s as if the author wrote it under exam conditions, spent too much time on the introduction, and only had the last five minutes to write what should have been at least the last third of the book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    When I started to read this book, I expected a young adult novel. Afterall, the plot is kind of Cinderella-ish, with a popular moviestar falling in love with a common girl. To my surprise there was a detailed sex scene all of a sudden. I was reading this on the train, with lots of people sitting beside me, so I blushed and decided to continue reading later. The storyline itself was rather unbelievable. I couldn’t see why Antonio, a famous moviestar, would fall in love so easily with Matti, a girl who isn’t even exceptionally beautiful, who is shy and silent. Moreover, he frequently suspected her of being a crazy fan (which she actually was a bit). I really couldn’t feel the connection. And then they made love, way too soon in my opinion. The fact that he flirted with his co-star after he first met Matti didn't really help.Now, about the grammar: I’m not a native English speaker, but I noticed some typing errors (Antoinio, "Your in today’s issue" ...). This is probably because I didn't read the final version of the book but an ARC.It was not all bad though. It was interesting to read how a star acts in real life, how he deals with fans, how much work is put into one single scene of a movie etc. It is obvious the author researched it thoroughly. I also liked the switching perspectives: one chapter was seen through Matti's eyes, the next through Antonio's.But overall, I was disappointed. I wanted to put it away after the first chapter actually, but since it was the first book I’ve won through Librarything Early Reviewers, I felt I had to read it until the end. And that ending was in my opinion the best part of the book, because it finally touched me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Fairly predictable romance book where the couple falls for each other and then has a misunderstanding that gets worked out in the end.Matty "saves" Antonoio Reed from a gaggle of school girls in a hotel lobby and when they run into each other again they get together. Bodyguard plays devil's advocate and his publicist appears to have a thing for him.It kept my attention til the end but I just couldn't wrap my head around an englishman with the name of Antonio -- just threw me off every time I read the name!