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A review by northship
My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas
5.0
this book was so ridiculous, and yet i loved it so much. i mean the heroine's name is CATHERINE BLADE and she is basically a no-holds-barred badass, so i think that is a good indication of how the book is going to go. it has all of the usual reasons i read sherry thomas, namely angst, unresolved sexual tension and explosive resolved sexual tension, and fractured relationships between two damaged people who have to learn to trust each other again.
i probably should have given this less stars considering that, although it does stand alone, i can't imagine appreciating the payoff of it nearly so much reading it on its own, as opposed to following its prequel, the hidden blade. i'm not sure whether i would have forgiven the jumpy plot as much as i did (because i really wanted leighton and ying-ying to FINALLY have a happy ending).
as it was, between the two books, i was entirely satisfied with this series, although part of me wishes that they could have been published as one very long volume with a little bit of scene tweaking between them.
i probably should have given this less stars considering that, although it does stand alone, i can't imagine appreciating the payoff of it nearly so much reading it on its own, as opposed to following its prequel, the hidden blade. i'm not sure whether i would have forgiven the jumpy plot as much as i did (because i really wanted leighton and ying-ying to FINALLY have a happy ending).
as it was, between the two books, i was entirely satisfied with this series, although part of me wishes that they could have been published as one very long volume with a little bit of scene tweaking between them.