The Perks of Being a Beauty
Written by Manda Collins
Narrated by Anne Flosnik
3/5
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About this audiobook
Lord Quentin Fortescue is far more interested in his host's cotton mills in the north than he is in courting the man's dim-witted daughter. But it's the girl's companion who makes him look twice. Years ago, Miss Amelia Snowe rejected his proposal without a backward glance. Quentin has molded himself into just the sort of man she'd have wanted back then, but is Amelia still the smug beauty who broke his heart? And can either of them risk their newfound positions to indulge the fiery attraction that burns between them?
Manda Collins
Manda Collins grew up on a combination of Nancy Drew books and Jane Austen novels, and her own brand of Regency romantic suspense is the result. An academic librarian by day, she investigates the mysteries of undergraduate research at her alma mater, and holds advanced degrees in English Lit and Librarianship. Her debut novel, How to Dance with a Duke, spent five weeks on the Nielsen Bookscan Romance Top 100 list, was nominated for an RT Reviewer's Choice Award for best debut historical romance, and finaled in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence contest. Both How to Entice an Earl and Why Dukes Say I Do were selected for inclusion in Eloisa James's Reading Romance column. Why Earls Fall in Love, the second book in her Wicked Widows series, was called "sparkling romance" by Publishers Weekly and is set in Bath, England, one of her favorite cities in the world.
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Reviews for The Perks of Being a Beauty
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A short book without hots scenes, but with delicious passages of how love can be everlasting.It's a book about SECOND CHANCES.Even being so short, I thought at times that maybe Amelia would cost more to understand that she had paid her debt to have done it in the past. Although not fully justifying the fact that she acted like that much because of her mother, but her mistakes were in the past.This was now a mature love. The kind where you feel happy to read and be part of it.Very good description of some of the characters, as one who gossips, who is jealous, or that one happy with others happiness. Perfect descriptions of the type of people you meet in your everyday life. A book that invites you to read the rest of the series.I liked the pace of the story. The cover is beautiful too - a wonderful blue color.I have no negatives to point out.Surely the other books are on my list of "to read".5 STARS!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have not read Manda Collins' Ugly Duckling series, but I do know that Amelia Snow was the snob who bullied the ducklings unmercifully. Now, her star has fallen. Her mother died, leaving Amelia penniless, and she has accepted the job as paid companion to an industrialist's daughter. Lord Quentin Fortescue, younger son of a duke, was the first man that Amelia turned down, and in the eight years since, he has been married and widowed. Now, they are thrown together at a house party hosted by Amelia's employers.
As we learn more about Amelia's younger years, her mother's behavior, and her efforts to atone for her wrongdoing, she becomes a sympathetic character.
There is an inherent problem with novellas; there's precious little space to convince the reader of the couple's love. And even though Quentin and Amelia had a history, I just could not become invested in their rekindled passion. I suspect, however, that fans of the series will enjoy seeing it wrapped up in this manner. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I thought this was going to be clean-it wasn’t