I am all for a Jane Austen retelling, but The One That Got Away, while somewhat fun, was a pale copy of the original (Persuasion). The characters weren’t very well developed and it seemed to rely too heavily on the original instead of taking a story frame and developing new and better ways to convey […]
Author: Ashlyn Macnamara
Average Rating: 2.75
Ex Libris Romance (56)
Ah, the ‘brother’s friend’ trope. It’s been used a lot and for good reason. It creates a history between two love interests (sometimes a bad one) and gives the chance for the ‘friend’s annoying younger sibling becomes desirable’ transformation. Along Came A Rogue was fun and held just the right amount of intrigue via […]