Review: Amelia gets her comeuppance--great fun!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2013
For readers who have enjoyed the Ugly Ducklings trilogy, "The Perks of Being a Beauty" is a fun follow-up novella. I feel sure that if one has not read the others, there's a great deal of subtext that is missing and the novella would be fairly mundane. However, for those of us lucky enough to have context, finding out what becomes of that little b**ch, Amelia Snowe, is a good read. Poor Amelia, after he monumental meltdown in the last Ugly Ducklings book, has lost her fortune and is now employed as a dramatically chastened companion to a truly lovely, kind girl named Harriet. Her childhood sweetheart, Quentin, rebuffed by the haughty Amelia, is now given the opportunity to reward Amelia for her change of heart. Manda Collins' style is very readable and her characters engaging.  But I'd recommend reading the trilogy first.