Review: Good wrap up to an excellent series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
"The Perks of Being a Beauty" is a novella that follows up the three excellent books in her Ugly Ducklings Trilogy.  Miss Amelia Snowe was definitely the villainess of those three books, making life miserable for the heroines by her cruel behavior.  In this book she has fallen upon hard times and finds herself reduced to being a companion to the young daughter of a middle class couple.  Into her life comes an old friend and onetime beau, Lord Quentin Fortesque.  Years before, Amelia had turned down his proposal with an eye to a better catch and he later married someone else.  He is now widowed and Amelia knows she is no longer eligible to marry him.What I liked about this book was the theme of second chances and being able to redeem oneself for past behavior. Usually when a bad character gets their come-uppance in a book, we never see what happens after or find out why they behaved as they did. In this book, Amelia gets a chance to make amends for her nastiness by helping her charge and others in the household and also to explain to Quentin why she really turned him down.  The romance between them is hot even as they both try to protect their hearts. If you read the previous three, you have to read this one.  You will also enjoy it even if you didn't read the others.There is a brief glimpse of the heroine of Ms. Collin's new series in this book.  That book, "Why Dukes Say I Do" is due to be published on July 30.  I can't wait for this series to start!