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prationality's review
4.0
I won this as part of a RWA prize pack from a recent contest on Anna DeStefano's blog and was a little puzzled at first. This is a slim volume, just at 95 or so pages long and from a publisher and author I had never heard of before. Still, regency short stories peak my interest always!
The stories are, to put it simply, magical. Arguably the easiest to believe is 'Siren's Daughter', since its about two once upon a time lovers and a big big misunderstanding, but I found I liked 'Blue Figured Silk' more because I could feel Shaftesbury's shock and jolt of awareness from Hanbury's writing. And it also has one of the cutest, if silliest, jokes at the very end.
'A Scandal at Midnight' was cute, and I think if it had been longer would have been extremely pleasing. Its the shortest story of the three however and has the least depth. The running theme of a 'misunderstanding' drawing the lovers together is stretched to its limits this time I think.
This does however make me sad that a fellow reviewer comrade of mine read her full length novel, Ice Angel from Robert Hale for Romance Readers at Heart. These samplings of her writing are very good and have a definite charm to them that makes me eager to try longer works of hers.
The stories are, to put it simply, magical. Arguably the easiest to believe is 'Siren's Daughter', since its about two once upon a time lovers and a big big misunderstanding, but I found I liked 'Blue Figured Silk' more because I could feel Shaftesbury's shock and jolt of awareness from Hanbury's writing. And it also has one of the cutest, if silliest, jokes at the very end.
'A Scandal at Midnight' was cute, and I think if it had been longer would have been extremely pleasing. Its the shortest story of the three however and has the least depth. The running theme of a 'misunderstanding' drawing the lovers together is stretched to its limits this time I think.
This does however make me sad that a fellow reviewer comrade of mine read her full length novel, Ice Angel from Robert Hale for Romance Readers at Heart. These samplings of her writing are very good and have a definite charm to them that makes me eager to try longer works of hers.
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