Review: Beauty And The Blacksmith (Spindle Cove series) - ENG

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.

Review: A Week To Be Wicked (Spindle Cove series) - ENG

Author: Tessa Dare
Original Title: A Week To Be Wicked
Release Year: 2012
 
Literary Genre: Romance 
Setting: England (Spindle Cove) and Scotland, regency
Series: 2° of Spindle Cove series

Vote:  91/2/10

Minerva Highwood would do everything for her two sisters, Diana, the eldest, and the youngest Charlotte.

Diana (Beauty and the blacksmith) is the real beauty of the family, she’s sweet and unfortunately a bit dainty; there are rumours about the Viscount Payne's intention to court her but he, Colin Sundhurst, is not exactly the perfect man, he is a gambler with financial problems, he's a dissolute rake and he's a bit disturbed too. Minerva knows that and she decides that he definitely can't marry Diana.

Minerva is an extremely smart girl, her biggest passion is the geology; she spends the most of her time studying everything about the subject and during her research she finds out about some footprints that if demonstrate real might be considered one of the biggest discovery of the century. She wants to show the evidences of her study at the symposium settled in Edinburgh and hosted by the Royal Geological Society in a week time, but se needs an escort. To Achieve two things with one stroke, during a night she goes to the Viscount's home and, knowing that the man is in Spindle Cove against his will, Minerva makes him a proposal: five hundred guineas, so he could easly leave the place, in exchange of his promise to never marry Diana; but to gain the sum, Minerva has to win the symposium competition in Scotland and Colin should escort her through the journey.

Review: A Night To Surrender (Spindle Cove series) - ENG

 
Author: Tessa Dare
Original Title: A Night To Surrender
Release Year: 2011
 
Literary Genre: Romance 
Setting: England (Spindle Cove), regency
Series: 1° of Spindle Cove series

Vote:  7/10








Surely is not the best of the series, which by the way boasts very good “pieces”, see for example the splendid Any duchess will do or Once upon a winter's eve; also the others from Spindle Cove, even if they aren't exactly at the above mentioned level, are quite beautiful.

A night to surrender unfortunately lacks consistency, firstly isn't particularly remarkable, then it gets better, quite better actually, but some time later, again, it falls in a semi-anonymity status, and the story continues alternating really moving and touching moments to not exactly noteworthy parts.

It must be said that is the author's style that cheers up the whole romance, making the reading more thrilling; if A night to surrender had been supported by a more pronounced central thread, this Spindle Cove romance, probably would have been good as the others. The characters are beautiful, I enjoyed their personalities, their relationships and their fears, they aren't unashamedly common.

Commento: A Night To Surrender / Dolce Rifugio (serie Spindle Cove)

Autore: Tessa Dare
Titolo Originale: A Night To Surrender
Titolo Italiano: Dolce Rifugio 

Anno di Pubblicazione: 2011
 
Genere: Romance
Ambientazione: Inghilterra (Spindle Cove), regency
Serie: 1° della serie Spindle Cove


Giudizio:  7/10





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Di sicuro non è il migliore della serie, che peraltro vanta dei "pezzi" di tutto rispetto, vedi ad esempio lo splendido Any duchess will do o Once upon a winter's eve; anche gli altri di Spindle Cove, seppur non proprio all'altezza degli appena menzionati, sono comunque belli.

A night to surrender purtroppo manca di corposità, sulle prime è risultato ben poco d'impatto, si è poi ripreso, anche bene direi, per, tuttavia, ripiombare in uno stato di semi-anonimato, portando avanti la storia alternando momenti molto emozionanti a parti non esattamente degne di nota; c'è da dire che quello che risolleva tutto l'insieme è lo stile dell'autrice che rende la lettura appassionante ed accattivante, se in questo caso fosse stata sostenuta da un filo conduttore più marcato, anche questo capitolo di Spindle Cove, probabilmente, sarebbe stato al livello degli altri. I personaggi sono belli, mi sono piaciuti i loro caratteri, le loro reazioni e le loro paure, non sono soggetti spudoratamente visti e rivisti.

Commento: Beauty And The Blacksmith (serie Spindle Cove)

Autore: Tessa Dare
Titolo Originale: Beauty And The Blacksmith
Titolo Italiano:  inedito in italia  
Anno di Pubblicazione: 2013
 
Genere: Romance
Ambientazione: Inghilterra, Regency
Serie: 3,5° della serie Spindle Cove


Giudizio:  91/2/10




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Altro racconto della fortunata serie Spindle Cove che non vedevo l'ora di leggere.

Diana Highwood è una gentildonna di buona famiglia ed è la vera bellezza di casa...e probabilmente anche di tutta Spindle Cove; non è solo l'aspetto fisico ma anche il portamento, la grazia, la dolcezza e la femminilità, a renderla così eterea. Purtroppo Diana è anche una ragazza molto fragile: soffre di violenti attacchi d'asma ed è questo il motivo per cui, con la madre e le sue due sorelle minori (l'intelligente e studiosa Minerva - A week to be wicked e l'adolescente, divertente e briosa Charlotte), si trasferisce a Spindle Cove, paesino nel Sussex che grazie alla sua vicinanza col mare, rappresenta un toccasana per i polmoni della ragazza.