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A review by bookish_kristina
Selina by S.M. LaViolette, Minerva Spencer
4.0
Pretty simple and straightforward story, not ground breaking but entertaining.
This one reminded me a lot of The Arrangement by Mary Balogh and Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare but with a lot more descriptive sex scenes, which is to be expected from this pen name.
This was a loose beauty and the beast retelling with an age-gap that didn’t really matter, and a disabled hero who didn’t get magically cured. The beginning of this followed lines of action from the previous book, it does read like a stand alone but the story is more enjoyable if you have read the previous ones about her sisters. I am enjoying this series, even if the plotting has been a bit weak, but this one was less ambitious and as a result, more fluid and well constructed. Small note, this could have used another pass over by the proof reader as there were lots of quotation marks in places where they shouldn’t be and often some were left out of where they should be, making me need to read dialogue twice sometimes.
But, as always, I enjoy this author’s rich language and research into interesting subject matter. I liked the updates from past characters which were done with a light hand through letter writing and felt organic and not like she was inserting past characters in her newest book.
Overall a good addition to the series and I look forward to the next one.
This one reminded me a lot of The Arrangement by Mary Balogh and Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare but with a lot more descriptive sex scenes, which is to be expected from this pen name.
This was a loose beauty and the beast retelling with an age-gap that didn’t really matter, and a disabled hero who didn’t get magically cured. The beginning of this followed lines of action from the previous book, it does read like a stand alone but the story is more enjoyable if you have read the previous ones about her sisters. I am enjoying this series, even if the plotting has been a bit weak, but this one was less ambitious and as a result, more fluid and well constructed. Small note, this could have used another pass over by the proof reader as there were lots of quotation marks in places where they shouldn’t be and often some were left out of where they should be, making me need to read dialogue twice sometimes.
But, as always, I enjoy this author’s rich language and research into interesting subject matter. I liked the updates from past characters which were done with a light hand through letter writing and felt organic and not like she was inserting past characters in her newest book.
Overall a good addition to the series and I look forward to the next one.