Author: Tessa Dare
Original Title: Beauty And The Blacksmith
Release Year: 2013
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England (Spindle Cove), regency
Series: 3,5° of Spindle Cove series
Vote: 91/2/10
Another novella from the lucky Spindle
Cove series!
Diana Highwood is a gentlewoman from a
good family and she's a real beauty; but it isn't only her look to
make her an handsom person: she's kind, sweet, polite and generous.
Unfortunately Diana is also really fragile, or at least she was
before her arrival with her family in Spindle Cove and that's exactly
the reason why she is the village, she suffers from asthma so with
her widow mother and her two younger sisters, Minerva (A week tobe wicked) and Charlotte, she moved to Spindle Cove one year
before hopping that, thanks to the village proximity to the sea, her lungs
could work better.
Diana's mother has always hopped for a
good marriage for her daughters, especially for the eldest, she wants an
handsome and rich nobel man and she will accept nothing less.
“Bad luck” wants that Diana is
secretly smitten with the village blacksmith, the charming and
statuary Aaron Dawes; what she doesn't know is that he feels something
deep for her too but due to their social difference he never hoped
in something more that fantasies and a mere friendship.
And yet their relationship takes an
unexpected turn when in a particular situation Diana, to defuse
tension, decides to ironically reveal him everything she has ever
felt for him, expecting a totally different reaction from the one
Aaron actually has...
It is a truly nice short story.
As I said in other Tessa Dare novel
reviews, she has the phenomenal talent to describe extremely touching
moments between the protagonists of her romances, and this isn't an
exception, there are beautiful dialogs or thoughts.
I enjoyed so much how Diana and Aaron
decide to deal with their feelings for each other, it's a really
natural and easy approach, no rush at all, just “let's see how we
can manage our relationship and how we feel about it”.
But what I appreciated the most is that
there isn't the too perfect happy ending, I mean, he's a blacksmith,
with a promising talent in creating really nice jewels and he tries
to use it to make some more money and that's it, he doesn't inherit a
title form some distant relative and he doesn't acquire an enormous
sum which will make him the richest of Spindle Cove; he works hard to
gain what he wants and also if Diana isn't accustomed to his kind of
life she decides that their love worth more, no surreal developments
and that's why I really liked it!
Buona lettura!
M.E.G.
2. A week to be wicked (Minerva, Colin)
3.5. Beauty and the blacksmith (Diana, Aaron)
4. Any duchess will do (Pauline, Griffin)
Tessa Dare's bibliography
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