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sarah_moynihan's review
3.0
First the things I did like, I enjoyed being able to read about Rose and 'Robert' again, meeting Stanhope and Eleanor. I actually look forward to reading what will happen in regards to Eleanor in the next novella, she was sweet and genuinely kind and deserves to be happy. I appreciated that Diana was brave enough to bend the oppressive rules of mourning for women by adding brightly colored accessories to her wardorbe. Standing up for herself in this small why when she knew it would just make her more unpopular with the ton.
This is a good novella, just not quite for me.
Diana, however, is an absolutely miserable character. Just a complete and utter toxic, black cloud of a character. It's great that she finds her happiness and won't have to miserable for the rest of her life, but she was not enjoyable to read about. I liked every single other character in this book more than I liked her. I didn't like her in the second in the series when we met her and I didn't like her now. She did not grow at all from the end of that book to this one. She is petulant and whiny. She doesn't appreciate her cousin in the least! Rose is constantly just trying to make her life better and cheer her up and all she does is snap at her and complain in return.
She has completely created her own misery, making no attempt to draw herself out of her misery and look for things to be happy about with what she has. She has a son and refuses to love him just because he was fathered by her deceased husband, a man she hated.
She just continues dwelling on a past imagined slight. All her troubles started on one night four years ago when she jumped to a naive conclusion and tried to unwittingly trap a man into marriage. The propsal was not forthcoming and her reputation suffered. She saw that as crushing bretrayal even though she invented the whole romance in her head. She comes to this realization in the second book, but I gues she finds it easier just to blame everyone else because she isn't moving past it.
I was able to sypthize with her more in this book from know more of her perspective and feelings, but I wasn't able to sympthize with her enough to like her. She does somehow come around by the end of the novella, but it's not because of any real growth on her part. Although I admit she did follow through on spending an entire day with her son and was attempting to bond with him. Stanhope was definitely way too good for her, he believed in trying to do the right thing and judging things based on their own merit. She almost ruins everything for herself again because she jumps to yet another conclusion, this time regarding Stanhope. But luckly he is willing to brave her fury and set the record straight to try to fix things between them.
Thank you to Bree Wolf who shared this book with me, this is my honest review.
This is a good novella, just not quite for me.
Diana, however, is an absolutely miserable character. Just a complete and utter toxic, black cloud of a character. It's great that she finds her happiness and won't have to miserable for the rest of her life, but she was not enjoyable to read about. I liked every single other character in this book more than I liked her. I didn't like her in the second in the series when we met her and I didn't like her now. She did not grow at all from the end of that book to this one. She is petulant and whiny. She doesn't appreciate her cousin in the least! Rose is constantly just trying to make her life better and cheer her up and all she does is snap at her and complain in return.
She has completely created her own misery, making no attempt to draw herself out of her misery and look for things to be happy about with what she has. She has a son and refuses to love him just because he was fathered by her deceased husband, a man she hated.
She just continues dwelling on a past imagined slight. All her troubles started on one night four years ago when she jumped to a naive conclusion and tried to unwittingly trap a man into marriage. The propsal was not forthcoming and her reputation suffered. She saw that as crushing bretrayal even though she invented the whole romance in her head. She comes to this realization in the second book, but I gues she finds it easier just to blame everyone else because she isn't moving past it.
I was able to sypthize with her more in this book from know more of her perspective and feelings, but I wasn't able to sympthize with her enough to like her. She does somehow come around by the end of the novella, but it's not because of any real growth on her part. Although I admit she did follow through on spending an entire day with her son and was attempting to bond with him. Stanhope was definitely way too good for her, he believed in trying to do the right thing and judging things based on their own merit. She almost ruins everything for herself again because she jumps to yet another conclusion, this time regarding Stanhope. But luckly he is willing to brave her fury and set the record straight to try to fix things between them.
Thank you to Bree Wolf who shared this book with me, this is my honest review.
kristin's review
3.0
I would like to thank the author Bree Wolf for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the fifth book in the A forbidden Love Novella series. All of the books deal with two protagonists who end up switching places with some interesting effects.
This wasn't one of my favourites in the series, but it is interesting and well written none the less.
This is the fifth book in the A forbidden Love Novella series. All of the books deal with two protagonists who end up switching places with some interesting effects.
This wasn't one of my favourites in the series, but it is interesting and well written none the less.
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