First, I
want to say how very deeply sorry I am. I have finished reading Nicholas, from
Grace Burrowes, early this week, but only today I could sit and write down my
impressions of it :( Sorry, guys!
Anyway, let’s
get started! Nicholas is the second book in the Lonely Lord series and we
already knew the character from Darius, the first book. Nicholas is a very
insanely tall man (I’m sorry for the drama, but I’m really short, haha!),
handsome in his own way and very, very gentle. So much that sometimes it gets
annoying. We also get pieces of Nick’s life during the first book, as both
books happened at the same time.
He meets
Leah, Darius sister, at a ball in a very delicate moment of his life. Nick
promised his dying father to find a wife before the end of the season, as he
would inherit the title of Earl of Bellefonte. Leah is a woman with a scandal
in her past, so she is very badly treated by polite society in general and
hates social functions. However, she doesn’t hate them more than she resents her
father, a very mean and wicked man who hates her back. They meet in a dark room
at the ball and Nick falls in love with Leah’s voice. He didn’t see her, just
touched and heard and he was struck.
After
learning about Leah’s situation and her identity, Nick decides to marry her to
get his bride and protect her from her own father. They desired and burned for
each other, but Nick always kept his distance. It was very frustrating and I
honestly got a little bored in the end, because they kept going on circles and
every circle was darker than the other was.
The plot,
at first, didn’t seem so different from the others, but, as the story went and
I met the couple better, both were just broken. Nick was much more broken, but
Leah also faced every sort of misfortunes in life and still had the courage to
keep living, even without any hope for her future. I knew Grace blooms the
essence of her characters during the book, but this time it was hardcore.
Analyzing the details, big revelations and all, the book won 3 out of 5 starts
from me. But I gave it 4 out of 5 stars at my Goodreads
profile.
No, it wasn’t
compassion or happiness over another finished book. It was all about one
specific situation in the book that got me hard, but in the good way. Nick has
an older bastard brother, Ethan (the star in the third book of the series) and
they were inseparable as kids and teenagers. When they were around 15, an
unhappy accident made their father beat Ethan almost to death and separated his
heir and his bastard son. Their father, in his deathbed, confessed he did it
because he thought the boys were lovers, once they didn’t have any other
friends and only dallied with the maids eventually and together. Both men are shocked
with such revelation and tell their father it wasn’t anything like that. I’m
not going to say that this is insane because it was another time; I can’t judge
the actions of the Earl being an outsider to the English mind of the time. But
I wondered almost a full day about how many of this situations happened and the
involved ones never knew why they were being punished or had to pretend to be
something they weren’t just to survive. All of this got Grace a bonus star,
haha!
That’s it,
guys! It was an interesting read despite everything and I will read Ethan’s
book soon. Thanks for reading this <3 Do you like this kind of
explosive/dark plot too?
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