I loved how their stories flowed separately yet together and I never felt a drag in pace or disinterest in the progression of events of one story or the other. The story is told through several different POVs, each character having a distinct presence in the book and memorable in his or her own way. There are plenty of secondary plots that I think were also well developed and interesting. What I just described is just one element of a much bigger story. But when Stella starts digging, secrets that have be buried for years start to surface and no one is safe from the consequences of the truth. And Rose, whom Stella was never fond of, becomes fair game too. Charlotte and her mother have their ladies maid, Stella, a manipulative little snot, dig up all the secrets she can find on Ada. When Charlotte thinks Ada is getting in her way, she vows to bring her down. But one particular suitor has already captured the attention of Ada's spoiled and entitled step-sister Charlotte. Although distracted by her feelings for Ravi, Ada doesn't dismiss suitors because a proper marriage may be her only chance to attend Oxford, something she wants more than anything else. Meanwhile, Lady Averley is pressured by her father to find a suitable marriage, her only chance for a respectable future after a recent scandal lowered the family name. Rose only agrees to cover up the romance so that she can compose music and entertain dreams her mother would never allow.
But to keep up appearances, Ravi's letters to Ada are addressed to Rose, Ada's newly promoted ladies maid, which only causes speculation among the maids of a secret lover. Lady Ada Averley has fallen in love with a boy her father would never approve of, so they exchange letters and meet in secret to share their affections. In Cinders & Sapphires mostly everyone has a secret they want kept hidden and deception is almost second nature. It is no secret that I enjoy books based in the past - where the women wear big fancy gowns and are expected to be proper ladies, where society and family determine how you are to act and whom you are to marry, where secrets and scandal run rampant - therefore it's no surprise that I enjoyed Cinders & Sapphires. Worlds, utterly different yet entangled, where ruthless ambition,įorbidden attraction, and unspoken dreams are hidden behind dutiful
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someone she could never persuade her father to accept.Īnd enticing, the first novel in the At Somerton series introduces two Power to restore the Averley name-but it would mean giving up her one Now Ada finds herself tornīetween her own happiness and her family’s honor.
But terrible scandal has followedĪda’s beloved father all the way from India. The first time in a decade, the Averleys have returned to Somerton, Her life might have been had she been born a lady, like Ada. Rose knows she should be grateful to have a Especially now that she, at barely sixteen, has risen to the Clever, rich,Īnd beautiful, Ada Averley treats Rose as an equal. Cliffe has never met a young lady like her new mistress.
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