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Room Service
Maid service was something she required...
Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and her cushy life back. Meanwhile, having no way to pay the enormous bill she racked up at the Royal Palmetto Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, poses a slight problem-and the manager has the gall to suggest the that she pay off her debt by working at the hotel-as a maid...
Not something she ever expected to provide!
Alex Sheridan, the hard-working general manager of the sumptuous Royal Palmetto hotel, doesn't much care for the spoiled Ms. Morgan-at first. But when she dons the uniform and proves her mettle as a housekeeper who cares about more than cold, hard cash, he begins to change his mind. He's got plenty to distract him when a rash of disasters befalls his beloved hotel-disasters that could be the result of a saboteur. It isn't long before Katya finds herself in imminent peril just as Alex is starting to fall for the once-spoiled brat who's acting more and more like a real woman every day...
Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and her cushy life back. Meanwhile, having no way to pay the enormous bill she racked up at the Royal Palmetto Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, poses a slight problem-and the manager has the gall to suggest the that she pay off her debt by working at the hotel-as a maid...
Not something she ever expected to provide!
Alex Sheridan, the hard-working general manager of the sumptuous Royal Palmetto hotel, doesn't much care for the spoiled Ms. Morgan-at first. But when she dons the uniform and proves her mettle as a housekeeper who cares about more than cold, hard cash, he begins to change his mind. He's got plenty to distract him when a rash of disasters befalls his beloved hotel-disasters that could be the result of a saboteur. It isn't long before Katya finds herself in imminent peril just as Alex is starting to fall for the once-spoiled brat who's acting more and more like a real woman every day...
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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November 6, 2012
Katya Morgan was raised to believe that money equals love. Sent away to baording school upon the death of her mother at age 10, her father has always been absent in every way but one. He's always provided her with every material possession that money can buy. And when he dies and disinherits her, even having her stepmother Jillian take back everything that his money ever paid for, Katya is not only devasted, but broke. When sexy Alex Sheridan, the general manager of the premier Royal Palmetto hotel in Arizona, offers her a job in the housekeeping department, Katya knows she's sunk to a new low. Once a guest, now a lowly housekeeper, Katys is truck with the realization of just how much money it takes to survive. Throw in a saboteur trying to take over Alex's job at the hotel, the hotel owners dimwitted son Chris, a slew of Alex's family, and a drooling dog named "Daisy", and you've got a story you're not likely to forget.
I loved ROOM SERVICE. Whether it's due to the fact that Ms. Brandt obviosly did her research on the daily runnings of a hotel, or just the fact that the story is a wonderful one, this is one book you won't be able to put down.
I loved ROOM SERVICE. Whether it's due to the fact that Ms. Brandt obviosly did her research on the daily runnings of a hotel, or just the fact that the story is a wonderful one, this is one book you won't be able to put down.
May 24, 2011
I am so very confused, lol. The blurb associated with this book is nothing like what I read, but I'm glad someone else who reviewed it read the same story as I did.
Katya Morgan's father has just died. She's been coddled since she was young, at least in terms of money. Her mother died when she was ten, and she looks so much like her mom that her heartbroken father can't deal and sends her away. She thinks it's because she cried over her mother's death, and that's what she believes for many, many years. Her father never gave her anything else to believe.
When her father dies, Katya assumes she'll be taken care of like always. She wants something? She whips out a credit card and it's hers. She's never had to really consider how much something costs or where the money is coming from. But her father leaves her nothing, and I mean NOTHING. Not even the clothes he paid for. If it was a gift, it was hers to keep, but otherwise, she had to leave it behind. That includes her car.
Katya returns to the hotel where she's been staying and her credit card accounts have been closed, so she has no way to pay for the room. Her life quickly nosedives and she finds herself in situations she'd never considered. She also learns some valuable lessons.
Along the way, Katya grows quite a bit, finds love, finds acceptance without money. It was an interesting thing to see. Her father's tough love, which he wasn't able to administer while alive according to his wife, ultimately turned her into a likable person. It was a good read. Or listen, as was the case with me.
Katya Morgan's father has just died. She's been coddled since she was young, at least in terms of money. Her mother died when she was ten, and she looks so much like her mom that her heartbroken father can't deal and sends her away. She thinks it's because she cried over her mother's death, and that's what she believes for many, many years. Her father never gave her anything else to believe.
When her father dies, Katya assumes she'll be taken care of like always. She wants something? She whips out a credit card and it's hers. She's never had to really consider how much something costs or where the money is coming from. But her father leaves her nothing, and I mean NOTHING. Not even the clothes he paid for. If it was a gift, it was hers to keep, but otherwise, she had to leave it behind. That includes her car.
Katya returns to the hotel where she's been staying and her credit card accounts have been closed, so she has no way to pay for the room. Her life quickly nosedives and she finds herself in situations she'd never considered. She also learns some valuable lessons.
Along the way, Katya grows quite a bit, finds love, finds acceptance without money. It was an interesting thing to see. Her father's tough love, which he wasn't able to administer while alive according to his wife, ultimately turned her into a likable person. It was a good read. Or listen, as was the case with me.
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March 23, 2011I was listening to but have stopped to listen to Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I was expecting Room Service to be more of a light, funny chick lit type novel. So far, it's not. It's been rather sad.
August 27, 2011
2.5 not available but i just can't give it a 3 so predictable
April 4, 2013
It kept making me cry.
February 12, 2016
Not bad for a romance novel.
August 2, 2020
Words cannot explain how much I did not enjoy being tricked into reading this story. It’s so hard to find a truly interesting and well developed contemporary story nowadays. It’s like this story was written in the 1990’s and not 2003. I saw some reviews and they mentioned how sex positive and outgoing the heroine was, but it was painfully obvious she was just using sex to detach herself from the emptiness of her current life. Not to mention avoiding any kind of attachment to anyone as she has been abandoned and rejected by both of her parents, one by dying and the other by projecting some very unhealthy rejection onto the h cuz she reminded her father of her mother. Not gonna even go into how unhealthy that was and no one in his life ever suggested therapy cuz he was alienating his only daughter cuz of his own issue, but everyone just accepted it – even her stepmother who was a seemingly ok person who cared for his and his daughter’s wellbeing. They were all living in their own created world of delusionville and they just had enough money to keep on going. Even when the heroine is taken out of that world by her disinheretment (I know it’s not a word, don’t care enough to look for the right one) we are promised some cosmic smackdown so she learns how the real people live and suffer and have to live within the limitations of their circumstances. It all lasts about a minute and it's just filled with so much whining. I mean like begging for stuff from her stepmother. Using her pitiful circumstances to extract sympathy from strangers who probably have it worse off than her just because she is new to this whole reality of the world. Just wanted to smack the author for trying to make me care about this privileged spoiled princess.
Ps. If you don’t believe me, let me just say this. At the very start of the book when the heroine learns that her estranged father that has systematically pushed her out of his life has died, her first thought to that news was “I’m an orphan.” BITCH YOU ARE A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD-GROWN-ASS-ADULT. KIDS ARE ORPHANS, NOT GODDAM SPOILED LITTLE RICH ASS-HATS LIKE YOU THINK YOU ARE. It was so prominently ridiculous that it my mind as the single worst way one can show their character reacting to bad news (even if the author was trying to show the h’s emotional immaturity, this was just beyond ridiculous) that I have saved it in my memory banks. And now whenever someone points out how badly this person or that person reacted to getting some bad news I can always say, “well they may have reacted that way in shock, but let me just tell you how much more stupid they could have been.”
Note to self: Stay away from this author, she does not show much potential in developing any believable worthwhile characters or stories.
Ps. If you don’t believe me, let me just say this. At the very start of the book when the heroine learns that her estranged father that has systematically pushed her out of his life has died, her first thought to that news was “I’m an orphan.” BITCH YOU ARE A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD-GROWN-ASS-ADULT. KIDS ARE ORPHANS, NOT GODDAM SPOILED LITTLE RICH ASS-HATS LIKE YOU THINK YOU ARE. It was so prominently ridiculous that it my mind as the single worst way one can show their character reacting to bad news (even if the author was trying to show the h’s emotional immaturity, this was just beyond ridiculous) that I have saved it in my memory banks. And now whenever someone points out how badly this person or that person reacted to getting some bad news I can always say, “well they may have reacted that way in shock, but let me just tell you how much more stupid they could have been.”
Note to self: Stay away from this author, she does not show much potential in developing any believable worthwhile characters or stories.
April 7, 2021
3/5. Ponesrečen slovenski prevod, ko se npr. reka Vltava (nem. Moldau) spremeni v reko Moldavijo, je izbor (malce tuhtajoče razvlečenih) bizarnih anekdot iz Swartzevih dopisniških let po Vzhodni Evropi, gledanih skozi "zahodne oči"; Mož Slavenke Drakulič bralstvu ni želel servirati povzetkov svojih revidiranih prispevkov, raje se spušča v intimnejša ozadja že tako neverjetnih zgodb; o praškem profesorju, ki je bolj užival v vlogi pritlehnega partijskega aparatčika kot akademika, Swartzevo "slastno" brskanje po lastnem dosjeju, ki so si ga za njegovo diskretizacijo dobesedno izmislile vzhodne varnostne službe, do pogovora z osebno maserko romunskega diktatorja Ceausescuja.
May 4, 2008
I'm surprised the English edition doesn't pop up. Published by New Press in 2007, a strange and entrancing collection of essays about a quiet man's life in Central and Eastern Europe.
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