Review: Three Moving Stories of Seperation, Loss, and Second Chances
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2012
Midnight Scandals features three novellas by three different authors with stories that are loosely interconnected by a small English property called Doyle's Grange. Carolyn Jewel's story is set during the Regency period and features two lovers who were cruelly and tragically separated due to their differences in social standing. Courtney Milan's contribution takes place in the 1850's and features two lover's driven apart by the scandal of suicide and embezellment. Finally, Sherry Thomas delivers a story set in the late 1800's in which a lonely widow mistakes a handsome widower in the neighborhood for the lost sweetheart circumstances made her give up years earlier. Each of these stories deals with seperation and loss and is reconciled quite nicely. I am a Regency lover but found that I most enjoyed the novella by Sherry Thomas due to her eloquent handling of two characters who have each quietly suffered the loss of a spouse and can't seem to enjoy life until they befriend one another after a case of mistaken identity on the heroine's part. I have read Carolyn Jewel and Courtney Milan books before, but I am now anxious to read more by Sherry Thomas because her story was the most emotionally moving of the three in this anthology.