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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I admit that when I saw this in my Lit-Cube, I was skeptical. I just didn't see how the author could pull off a historical romance with a fairy-tale twist in an Old West town. It just sounded like a recipe for disaster. Well, I will admit, I was wrong. Yes, it was cheesy and fluffy, and I called the plot twist half-way through, but you know what? I still enjoyed the hell out of this book. It was cute and made me smile. Which is just really want I needed tonight. Some minor quibbles: The Beauty and the Beast retelling was less a retelling and more loosely based on. So if you came in expecting a full-blown retelling, this isn't it. I also felt that the Guild of Godmothers came out of nowhere, and didn't really add much, if anything. It felt a bit shoehorned in to give the book a fantasy feel, and just didn't fit. The characterizations were a bit shallow and I would have liked a bit more depth to the characters. But still a quick and fun read. I'll have to check out the rest in the series. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A faded matron and a blinded musician... but which is the Beauty and which is the Beast? Twice-widowed Arabella Mayor has made a place for herself and her son in Everland, selling and lending her beloved books to other bibliophiles in the sweet town. But she's running out of money, and ten-year-old Eddie is giving her fits, and their future is uncertain. Re-marriage might have once been an option, but Arabella knows she's past her prime, and isn't the Beauty she used to be. And as her beauty faded, so did her worth. What does she have left? World-renown violinist Vincenzo Bellini is at ease with his carefully cultivated reputation of a beastly recluse. After all, the fewer people looking at his hideous scars, the better. Ready to retire, he's trying to hide in Everland, but doesn't count on the townsfolk being so curious... especially a particular bookseller who reminds him of the life he abandoned long ago. Can he teach her that worth isn't tied to their appearances, or will he have to abandon his plans for a future here in Everland? *******************************The Brides of Everland, Ever After Step into Everland, Wyoming, where the people on the street are more than what they appear, and there's just a hint of magic in the air. From evil villains to mysterious godmothers, handsome cowboys to hidden princesses... welcome to Everland, Ever After. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Arabella has been taught by her late husband three rules. Be beautiful, be proper, don't share shameful secrets. To her beauty is worth, because this is what her husband has always told her. But then Vincenzo enters her and her son's life things change. He is not beautiful. He is horribly disfigured, and he's not proper but quite rude to her in the beginning. He hires her to read to him because he is blind. They develop a friendship that if they let it, could be more.
Likes:
~Beauty and the beast retelling
~Romantic
Dislikes:
~Insta-love that doesn't even make sense
So this is another romance in the Everland series. I do enjoy these books. They are short and sweet. The insta-love can get on my nerves sometimes though. I'm usually able to look past it decently enough, and rarely does it affect my reading. But this time was the exception. After talking to her for about 5 minutes and then her reading to him for a short bit. He was already apparently thinking about her all the time and dreaming of her. He's blind so it can't even be an instant attraction sort of thing. It makes no sense and annoys. The only defining thing that could have caught his attention in any way would have been her perfume which reminded him of his last wife.
Outside of the crazy insta-love. It was a sweet sort of story. This is the second book of the series where the MC was disabled in some way. It's nice when they aren't super hot and perfect all the time. Would be nice to see some more romances like that. Maybe where the female MC isn't a great and unique beauty, or is heavy set, or has some form of disablity. Just saying. ( )