Review: Fairy tale and a preview
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
This is a very short retelling of the fairy tale by the same name and a preview( several chapters) of the book in which the author uses the fairy tale as inspiration for her story, "Scandalous Desires". That is an excellent book by this author and one I thoroughly enjoyed when I read it in paperback edition several years ago. This book is part of her Maiden Lane series the first of which is "Wicked Intentions", then "Scandalous Desires" followed by "Thief of Shadows"and then "Notorious Pleasures". I would recommend reading the books in order, because the relationship between the main characters in Scandalous Desires really begins in the first book, and it's helpful to understand the full dynamics of the family members as well. I recommend the whole series with the caveat that they contain some steamy bedroom scenes and as they're set in the Seven Dials/ St.Giles, the docks/ wharves areas of London among the orphanages and poorhouses, and not Mayfair, there is some violence as well.This fairy tale and preview of Scandalous Desires is a clean read, what there is of it. Get the whole books! I haven't read anything by this author that I haven't at least liked. Most of it I've loved. She's on my list of authors whose books I will pick up without reading the jacket, simply because their name is on the cover.