![]() ![]() I’m not sure everyone would feel the same. Whenever they appeared, I felt pulled out of the story. ![]() Most of the book works as a romance and that was all the story I needed. Why Southern Charms needed to be a paranormal (beyond the fact that this is Jove’s Magical Love series), I do not understand. By the end of the book I was so tired of her tantrums and silences I wondered how Shane was going to put up with her once they were married. Do you insult the fairy godmother who offers to make your dreams come true? That’s what Ellie does. Now I ask you, if a fairy godmother offered to grant your every wish, would you purposely ignore her? Would you stamp your foot, pout, and tell her to go away? No? Let’s say you are madly in love with a man and you think he might not marry you. Ordinarily this is my kind of heroine, but Ellie spoils it by constantly getting into silly tiffs with Shane, (whenever they get in an argument she refuses to speak to him) and picking on Fatima for interfering with her life. Poor Shane is so undone by the experience that he just doesn’t know what to do with himself.Įllie is an intelligent, independent heroine who works hard and depends on herself. ![]() He’s one of those big clumsy heroes who falls in love with a tiny delicate woman. It takes quite a while for the first love scene but there is lots of romantic tension and I enjoyed seeing these two together. The chemistry between Shane and Ellie is the best thing about Southern Charms. Throughout the story Fatima makes semi-comic appearances – she cooks up delicious meals, gives Ellie toiletries, and has an affair with Shane’s valet, Withers. She believes that no man worthy of her will accept a woman whose origins are unknown. He is convinced that no woman will love him once she has seen his scarred body. Both hero and heroine have serious problems that make them vulnerable. Shane pretends to be interested in buying the ranch so he can get to know Ellie. True to the Cinderella format, Ellie runs the ranch and slaves for her ungrateful family. The family includes Ellie’s spoiled sister Darlene and her selfish adopted mother Elvina. Under the guise of looking for investments, Shane gets to know Ellie and her family. Shane Morgan travels to Texas to determine if Ellie Parker is a missing heiress, the long lost child of his mother’s best friend. They are Shane, a wealthy New York businessman, whose arm and back have been horribly scarred in a steamboat fire and Ellie an adopted daughter who runs a ranch for her mother and sister in Texas.Īfter a fairly silly opening chapter featuring Fatima’s cat Pandora and her friend Cupid, the real story begins. Fatima is contemplating bringing two unlikely people together. The book begins with Fatima, a curvaceous, luxury loving fairy godmother. This brings me to Southern Charms a love story which would have been far more magical without the magic. Sometimes it’s better if the spices are left out so that the dish can shine on its own. Like spice in a soup it’s easy to use too much. ![]() What would the story of Cinderella be without a fairy godmother? But magic is a delicate ingredient. What could be more magical than the unlikely coupling of the gentlemanly Geoffrey and the shrewish Elene in Deborah Simmons The De Burgh Bride or Reggie’s rake and Alys’s reformer in Mary Jo Putney’s The Rake? Sometimes of course, magic makes a tale more fun. Love seems to me to be a fairly magical thing, especially in romance novels. ![]()
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