Yet it won't stop me picking up another title in the Love Spell Fairy Tale line.Please take a moment to read the full item description, Thanks for stopping by : ) I do not ship outside the USA.I will be happy to combine shipping, /Cards-Tickets-Books-and-more/media-Combined-Shipping-discounts.html Check out my other items ! Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! Dear Buyer: We are offering 6 used paperbacks with Linda Winstead Jones as author these were written under her Pseudonym Linda Jones 5 books are from the LoveSpell faerie Tale Romance series and 1 is a time travel romance, the bonus books were written under her Pseudonym Linda Winstead and are historical romances. Brain fart! See, this is what reading these books does to a person it makes them all dizzy and incoherent (that's the unhealthy part of the comparison to Reese's Cups above).
I mean, I know historical romance novels are written for contemporary readers, which means using contemporary ideals, but couldn't there be a little bit of accuracy? Maybe make the hero only 5'10"? That's still tall, just not. Yet all historical romance novel heroes routinely stand at this height or more.
Oh, and what is it with making every man over six feet tall? I've especially come to notice this after doing research for my own hist-fic: men in the United States in 1880 averaged about 169.5 cm, which is only about 5'5" tall a man standing 6'2" would be considered, if not quite a freak, then someone who would definitely attract a lot of attention. There's a minor difference to the fairy tale in that Jones has thrown in a slight Jack the Ripper-like murder-mystery to spice things up, and I do mean slight anyone even remotely on the ball will be able to guess the perpetrator from the very beginning, despite the deflection of suspicion near the end (which only serves to prove who the villain is, actually). And the way the "Let down your hair" angle from the classic Rapunzel tale is used here is truly adorable and funny.
But these books are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: they're really, really unhealthy, they're totally yummy, and it's hard to stop at just one.Ī (sort of) modern retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale (I say sort of as the story's set in 1871 San Francisco), like all Love Spell romances and especially those by Linda Jones, this retelling is frothy, erotic, totally unrealistic, and zippy (obviously, since it only took me three hours to read! Sorry to keep repeating that, but it still astonishes me). That's 3 hours, people! If you are at all familiar with my reading history, you'll see that it usually takes me at least 3 weeks to read a book, not 3 hours.
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