
Diving into this one that looks fun and lighthearted which I need right now! Any other light and fun read #recommendations ?I'm asking all #littens for suggestions. 🤓 #bookhelp
Diving into this one that looks fun and lighthearted which I need right now! Any other light and fun read #recommendations ?I'm asking all #littens for suggestions. 🤓 #bookhelp
Forbidden romance. Lovers from different social classes. She needs to find a husband, he's supposed to make her the most gorgeous riding habit ever.
Belles of London series book 1
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This was a book that was real enough to be sad, but ended happily. I loved all the descriptions of fashion and horses.
Evie comes to London to find a husband and make a future for her sisters and has a daring plan to use her riding skills and her meeting with a daring fashion designer will change her ideas of how to build a better future.
4/5 stars, read if you enjoy historical romance and love fashion.
I picked this up because I heard it had lots of descriptions of fashion and fabric. It had some, but not to the level of detail I wanted (at least not so far). I was looking for Bernadette Banner, and this is… a historical romance. I feel like I should have liked the characters but I just wasn‘t interested in their romance. Not a bad book, but not for me.
I enjoyed this romance, it was just what I needed to get me out of my reading slump…Ahmad and Evie were just lovely to root for and I‘m looking forward to the next in this Belles of London series…Favorite Quote: “It‘s lately seemed to me that we ladies are dropped into a churning sea and forbidden from revealing that we know how to swim.”⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Evelyn entered the shop alone. She was at once assailed by the scent of fresh ink, paper and new leather bindings. A delicious fragrance. She breathed it in, feeling at once both excited and oddly at peace. For a reader, a bookshop was rather like a church.”
This was a fun romance, with likeable characters and a great cast of side characters (who I expect will have future books of their own). I liked that this wasnt your typical Victorian era romance where the girl gets the duke... instead, she falls in love with her Indian dressmaker. I only has a couple small issues. First, they resolved all their issues just a little too easily. Second was more of a "me" issue but I got bored with all of the ⬇️
(Author's note quoted above.)
I broke down. I bought it. It's very sweet.
Pros: Matthews packed this story full of female friendships, descriptions of beautiful gowns primarily from the perspective of the maker, ladies on sidesaddle, gentlemen introduced first by their horses, and a POC hero. I especially loved the horses and the focus on non-noble characters.