I got this novel to write an honest review, so here I am.
Honestly it isn’t my first Karen Hawkins so I kind of new her style and everything. Lately I read mostly newbie authors, new to me at least. I am open minded and I read a lot. I loved most of the “MacLean Curse” series by Hawkins a lot that’s why I wanted to give it a try.
The storyline is rather easy to be told.
Bronwyn Murdoch, eldest daughter of the family is about 24 and had a horrible season back than in London because she had no clue about society and everything connected to it. But her two stepsisters who are beautiful and very different from her shall marry an earl or prince. Bronwyn prefers to spend time with her father, an innovator, read romantic novels and she accepted that she probably would never marry because marriage would only be an option when she would fall in love.
Prince Alexey Romanovin, the prince of Oxenburg, likes his carefree live. He doesn’t intend to marry a woman, he wants his fun. He’s in Scotland with his grandmother, the Great Duchess Natasha – a gipsy. His only goal in life is to become the leader of the gipsy and not to rule his country mostly because he has four brothers who can do the job pretty well too.
Bronwyn’s stepmother pretty much offers her two daughters in every possible way to the prince but the man is only interested in the oldest daughter. He had met her days before thinking that she’d be a maid and the young woman thought he’d be a hunter. They have many things in common – both do not want to marry, both like to read and there is some tension between them … at least every time they kiss.
Of course things aren’t that easy. Because one night Bronwyn overhears the prince talking to his companion about courting her but not to get married but have fun in private. She isn’t sure what she shall do but she keeps her knowledge to herself and allows him to see her nonetheless.
+
It’s a new version of the classic Cinderella story. It’s nice and very slowly developing. At 60 percent I started to think that this story may never end. There is something missing – the passion? Tension? I don’t know.
I really liked Bronwyn, a typical bluestocking who doesn’t look too perfect. She’s short, curvy, dark haire
d and with some bust. Her sisters are slender and blond.
But honestly I never felled a connection with Alexey. He’s tall and probably handsome and he seems to be the “Roland” from Bronwyn’s romantic novels – the knight in shining armor. But I don’t feel any sympathy for him, no connection.
It’s a novel that is okay but not thrilling that’s why I can only give it 3 stars.
Rating: 3*** stars
Buck is reading .... 