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A review by gems_31
A Midnight Dance by Lila DiPasqua
4.0
Ok, right off the bat I have to get something off of my chest that really annoyed me about this book, hence the drop to 4 stars.
The back states that the author took insperation from the story Cinderella... Apart from a few references Glass Slippers, stepmother and two stepsisters (who are not all that wicked nor horrid) a ball, and an unpredictable 'fairy godmother' who helps our heroine it was nothing like Cinderlla and it really annoyed me.
I have read Eloisa James [b:A Kiss at Midnight|6957682|A Kiss at Midnight (Happily Ever Afters, #1)|Eloisa James|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1294044185s/6957682.jpg|7193900], which also was inspired by Cinderella and had all the recognisable traites of the cinderella story in them, but James managed to give it an excellent twist which made it fresh but also very recognisable compared to the source material.
DiPasque did not and I kept waiting for the magic and those little recognisable traites from the orginal source material to pop in. When they didn't, it frustrated me.
So in the end I had to divorce myself from the fact that the author states that it is inspired by Cinderella and look at it as a Regency/Historic romance with some erotic elements in it and only then did I manage to see it for what its worth.
A very good story about a young woman who makes the decision to put her good name aside for the sake of her family. This results in her falling into the arms of the man she dreamed about when she was a girl. What starts off as a purely sexual relationship blossoms very well into something much more in a very good and natural way. It never seems forced and both the hero and heroine don't fall into the normal cliches.
I'm not going to spoil it other than say they do get their happily Ever After and the sex scenes sizzle.
Ignore the quote about it being inspired by Cinderella for what litlle references there is are not vital to the story.
I'm not sure if I would read any of the authors other books, but it was a nice distraction.
The back states that the author took insperation from the story Cinderella... Apart from a few references Glass Slippers, stepmother and two stepsisters (who are not all that wicked nor horrid) a ball, and an unpredictable 'fairy godmother' who helps our heroine it was nothing like Cinderlla and it really annoyed me.
I have read Eloisa James [b:A Kiss at Midnight|6957682|A Kiss at Midnight (Happily Ever Afters, #1)|Eloisa James|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1294044185s/6957682.jpg|7193900], which also was inspired by Cinderella and had all the recognisable traites of the cinderella story in them, but James managed to give it an excellent twist which made it fresh but also very recognisable compared to the source material.
DiPasque did not and I kept waiting for the magic and those little recognisable traites from the orginal source material to pop in. When they didn't, it frustrated me.
So in the end I had to divorce myself from the fact that the author states that it is inspired by Cinderella and look at it as a Regency/Historic romance with some erotic elements in it and only then did I manage to see it for what its worth.
A very good story about a young woman who makes the decision to put her good name aside for the sake of her family. This results in her falling into the arms of the man she dreamed about when she was a girl. What starts off as a purely sexual relationship blossoms very well into something much more in a very good and natural way. It never seems forced and both the hero and heroine don't fall into the normal cliches.
I'm not going to spoil it other than say they do get their happily Ever After and the sex scenes sizzle.
Ignore the quote about it being inspired by Cinderella for what litlle references there is are not vital to the story.
I'm not sure if I would read any of the authors other books, but it was a nice distraction.