Book Review: Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller

 

Release Date: March 28, 2023

Blurb: 

Diana Biller's Hotel of Secrets is chock full of banter-filled shenanigans, must-have-you kisses, and romance certain to light a fire in the hearts of readers everywhere.

During ball season, anything can happen— even love.

It’s ball season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family’s hotel, the Hotel Wallner, to its former glory. She’s not going to let anything get in her way - not her parents’ three-decade-long affair; not seemingly-random attacks by masked assassins; and especially not the broad-shouldered American foreign agent who’s saved her life two times already. No matter how luscious his mouth is.

Eli Whittaker also only wants one thing: to find out who is selling American secret codes across Europe, arrest them, and go home to his sensible life in Washington, DC. He has one lead - a letter the culprit sent from a Viennese hotel. But when he arrives in Vienna, he is immediately swept up into a chaotic whirlwind of balls, spies, waltzes, and beautiful hotelkeepers who seem to constantly find themselves in danger. He disapproves of all of it! But his disapproval is tested as he slowly falls deeper into the chaos - and as his attraction to said hotelkeeper grows.

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My Review - 4 of 5 stars - 

I enjoyed the matriarchal aspect of this story a lot and passing the hotel down to the daughter. Maria was proud to run the hotel and wanted to bring it back to its splendor of the past. The question remained as to who did not want her to succeed. Maria was definitely tenacious and very good at getting others to help her out. Eli came in the middle of all the machinations, plans, and danger. The attraction between Maria and Eli had him helping her out. There were moments I felt the story dragged, too much repetitive description, but overall, it was an interesting tale.

I received an ARC through Netgalley, and this is my unsolicited review.