Book Review: California Holiday

Book: California Holiday or, How the World's Worst Summer Job Gave me a Great New Life (Beach book #2) by Kate Cann

Rating: 2 stars

Review:

In the beginning, this was so funny. I really couldn't stop laughing. When British girl, Rowan was so tired of dealing with all of the pressure from her parents and especially tired of her younger brother, she decided to take a break before she starts university (and to get away from her family). She ended up taking a nanny job in Seattle, WA.

Once she arrived, she had to deal with an extremely high strung and uptight mother of the child she was caring for. I felt really bad for her because not only was she dealing with the crazy mom but at first the little girl Flossy was a bit of a terror but she eventually started to behave better. And to pile on even more problems, the crazy mom's lecherous husband was trying to hit on her. This was truly an awful and stressful job.

So after having enough, Rowan (with a little help from Flossy's grandmother) came up a plan for her to get away. She was going to take a bus down to San Francisco for a job at a hotel. By then I thought Rowan had finally decided she didn't need to put up with all of that and was moving on. I was proud of her.

But my positive attitude didn't last for Rowan once she ended up meeting a guy at the Greyhound bus depot on her stop to change buses. She instantly feel in love with this guy Landon and after he told her about where he was going to be working for the summer. He also told her she should work there too. She immediately exchanged her ticket (after manipulating the ticket person) from San Francisco to Tuckee. She barely knew the guy yet she just changed her plans.

When they turned up at the hotel, she found herself working in the nursery working long hours and dealing with even more awful children. She didn't care because all she could think about was Landon.

But Landon turned out to be a bit of a flake because he quickly dropped her for Coco, a girl he dated last summer once she showed up for work. Instead of Rowan trying to get over him, she instead devised this pathetic plan to get him back but decided it wasn't worth it once she saw the two of them together. But after those two broke up, Rowan was there to pick up the pieces like the desperate idiot that she was. I was just so disappointed in the character because she couldn't move past all that and meet a guy who actually liked her.

I didn't like the outcome of the story. I guess I was expecting something different. It's hard to imagine this independent headstrong character turning into that obsessive insta-love one. But it happened.