A review by friends2lovers
Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare

lighthearted medium-paced

2.0

I don’t have much to say about this novella. It was fine, nothing special. I usually laugh out loud while reading Dare, but this wasn't very amusing and veered too silly at times. Most of the books in this series have been pretty meh. A part of me is wondering if I should just give up on it? But, I’ve heard books 4 and 5 are favorites for a lot of people. So, I’m going to hang in there and keep reading.

Series: Spindle Cove #3.5
Genre: Historical Romance
Setting: Regency era, March 1815? (a specific year isn’t mentioned but A Week to be Wicked was set in April 1814 and A Lady by Midnight was set in summer 1814)
Hero: Aaron Dawes, the village blacksmith, age 27
Heroine: Diana Highwood, age 24
Point-of-View: 3rd person, past tense, alternating between Aaron and Diana
Tropes/Themes: class difference, secret relationship, pining hero and heroine, working class hero
Format/Edition: ebook (borrowed from MCLS via Hoopla), published in 2013
Length: novella, 162 pages, 47k words (or about 104 pages, 30k words if excluding the excerpts from other Tessa Dare books at the end)
Read Date: July 3, 2022

Heat Index: 3 🌡️🌡️🌡️
2 moderately explicit sex scenes — slow burn!
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