The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
This “clean” romance was a fun retelling of many favorite stories. Cleverly incorporating Beauty and the Beast, Persephone and Hades, and many favorite romance tropes (marriage of convenience, bookworm heroine, reclusive hero and more) makes for a classic historical read. There is an undertone of mystery. While Matthews leaves the reader all the clues you need, the mystery is pleasantly surprising. As mentioned this is a clean romance, so the sexy bits are mostly off stage, which is a slight deviation from the trend toward spicier historicals of late. Just a heads up that this feels much more like the classic fade to black historicals of eras past…possibly a really good trait for many readers. The first book in this series is now on my TBR pile, so all in all, this book gets a recommendation from me.
Published by: Berkley Publishing Group Release Date: 11 October 2022
1 comment:
Nice review! I read her previous book, and I'm hoping to get this one too.
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