Review: Blinded by Grace Great Addition to the Cotillion Ball Series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Blinded by Grace, Becky Lower’s fifth book in the Cotillion series tells us the story of Halwyn Fitzpatrick. Halwyn is a loveable hero. Serious and responsible (how can you not be as the eldest son in a family of nine children?), Halwyn is the caretaker of his large family. He would like to settle down into married life with a good woman, but does not see the necessity of amorous feelings. Marriage, after all, is an amicable business relationship. If there is one thing Hal is good at, its business.Grace Wagner is a woman on the verge of losing her trust fund. Unless she is able to marry quickly, she and her mother will forever be at the mercy of her tyrannical step-father. When she sees Halwyn, the man she has been in love with since she was a girl, across the crowded dance floor an idea begins to bloom. She proposes a marriage of convenience to Halwyn and he agrees, both to help Grace and to stop his mother from harping on the fact that he needs a wife.And here’s where the fun comes in, because we (the reader) know that amorous feeling will appear for Halwyn the longer he spends time with forthright and beautiful Grace. Now that he has a pair of spectacles and can really see Grace for the first time, she is no longer the gangly friend of his younger sisters, but a woman that he could spend the rest of his life with.On top of this, the story has a sinister character in Grace’s step-father who tries to thwart the marriage which almost results in dire consequences (no more on that, you’ll have to read the story to find out what happens!).The author dedicated this book ‘to all men who wear glasses’ which was very appropriate. I loved this bespectacled hero and felt that Blinded by Grace was a great addition to the Cotillion series.