Review: Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove series) - ENG

Author: Tessa Dare

Original Title: Any Duchess Will Do

Release Year: 2013
 

Literary Genre: Romance 

Setting: England (Spindle Cove), regency

Series: 4° of Spindle Cove series

Vote:  10+/10

Wonderful.

Miss Pauline Simms is stubborn, proud, cheeky, conscientious and sometimes a bit rough and not exactly refined (I mean for XIX century English society; I doubt that nowadays words like “damn” or “blast” might be considered particularly vulgar...). Born and raised in Spindle Cove, she has worked really hard for all her life to provide a safe future for herself and her sister Daniela, unfortunately disabled. Her dream is to open a library and leave the parents' house, her father is a violent man, angry and disappointed for not having male sons instead of two daughters.
During a day, started badly and which promises to end worse, Paulina, covered with sugar and messy, stumbles upon the fascinating Duke of Halford.

Griffin Eliot York is a thirty-four-year-old dissolute and womaniser noble, but during the last year something has changed and Griffin isn't the same man anymore, he gets away from society, he doesn't take part in balls or any kind of fun, favouring a tranquil and private life. Behind this change there is a deep agony about which no one seems to know something.

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.