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I read this book as I ordered it in early from the Library. I gave it 4 stars. It was inspired by the Cinderella story which is my all time favourite fairytale. There are some similarities but this is a completely different story. It has some lusty love scenes, playacting, thievery, traitorous acts, privateering, serial killer, fairytale dance, proposal and wedding. Here is a link to my goodreads review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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For the first 40% of the book I was wondering whether we were going to read anything other than lots of lusty sex scenes, but then the plot started to unfold and what I thought was going to be smut with a poor excuse for a plot became a little more complex. I think the book would have been better had DaPasqua spent more time with plot development rather than lust development in that first 150 pages. I found the beginning of the book rather implausible, struggled for the first 200 pages and then devoured the rest.
It was good to read a book set in a different time in history based in France. It covered a period called the Fronde which I had not heard of before. Very interesting and had me googling for more informaton.
As Maureen has said above - lots of smut, thievery, treachery, some rather blood curdling murders...along with some romance. I enjoyed the ride in the end (although more for the intrigue and melodrama than the romance). It went from 2 stars at the start to 4 stars at the finish.
....and it had a great epilogue.....
This was a re-read for me. And I liked it as much as I did the first time...A link to my review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I finally read this book !! Better late then never. unfortunately, it was not the book for me :( I was truly bored
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A Midnight Dance by Lila DiPasqua
Synopsis:
Inspired by the tale of Cinderella, an erotically charged historical romance that offers a glass slipper, a dangerous deception, and an impoverished beauty determined to find her handsome prince...and make him pay.
Born into wealth, Sabine Laurent and her twin sister lived a life of luxury, their father’s prestigious theater frequented by royalty and aristocracy alike. And Sabine dreamed of her own prince charming—the devastatingly handsome Jules de Moutier.
That was before the loss of her sister and her family’s fall from grace—a disaster Sabine blames on the Moutier family. Now, with her father’s death, she’s inherited his sizable debt and the responsibility of caring for his spoiled long-time mistress and her two wastrel daughters. But with the help of Sabine’s eccentric friends—the balance of her father’s acting troupe—she plans to get very close to her old infatuation, seduce the rake—and make away with a fortune.
Resisting Jules’s skillful mouth and tantalizing touch is not as easy as Sabine supposed. And soon she must decide whether her desire for vengeance is greater than her desire for her one and only prince…