Review: A Night Like This by Julia Quinn
A Night Like This
(Smythe-Smith Quartet #2)
by Julia Quinn
Historical Romance
May 29th 2012 by Avon
Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is…
But she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge — in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy—no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman.
Daniel Smythe-Smith might be in mortal danger…
But that’s not going to stop the young earl from falling in love. And when he spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten-year-old who thinks she’s a unicorn. But Daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. And when Anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending…
Sexual Content 3/5
→ Opinion | A spoon of mystery, secret romance encounters and a swirl of events mark A Night Like This.
This book has a few common elements such as love-at-first-sigh, and a governess with a big secret! It has a consistent pacing to a much darker turn of events. I was expecting a different conclusion to the story, not as predictable as it turned to be.
A Night Like This has great pacing and one of the kindest heroes I’ve ever read about in romance novels! Daniel was absolutely fantastic! I still don’t feel like I’m a part of the Smythe-Smith family, but it was a believable romance, with clever and sweet characters that I adored. I couldn’t relate very well to Anne, cause I didn’t see a full transformation coming from her. We also get to meet more about our next hero, Hugh! He appears as a honorable man, and somewhat mad, who makes an exciting and surprising character that we’re eager to know more.
I believe this novel to be inferior to it’s precedent, Just like heaven. Not as funny, not as creative with the plot and more predictable than she usually is. Some times I didn’t feel like I was reading a Julia Quinn novel, something that makes her books so magical was missing from it. Not as light and fun as I expected it to be.
I received this book from Avon in exchange for a honest review.
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