All thoughts & opinions are my own.īlog| Goodreads| Facebook| Instagram| Twitter| BookBub I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. The story kept me interested throughout so I am giving this an overall rating of 3.25 stars! The book was most definitely dark and even twisted, but I just didn’t see the romance enough. I liked the change at the end though I won’t say what that was. Brandon thinks of himself as a beast when his baser nature takes over, and for that he blames his childhood. The way they had him as the beast and the man. I just thought there could be more story development in there. Pippa thought Brandon was out of her league and very handsome, but then a bunch of craziness happened and they were together. Pippa was feeding his daughter like a wet nurse, since she lost her baby and he would get turned on by her breasts. I just thought this book ended too quickly and didn’t really address all the issues, there was never a point where they just told each other their pasts.īrandon and Pippa were certainly attracted to each other. Mostly relating to Pippa, though I believe this was a stand-alone so the end of the book is the end. We don’t find out exactly what happened in each of their pasts till pretty late in the book and even at that point I had questions that were never really answered. Even if those prior relationships were not perfect, both are still dealing with loss.Ī lot happened in this book and there was a ton of mystery and intrigue. Brandon just lost his wife and Pippa just lost her husband and baby, so they are each dealing with those situations. The love story: This was a short book (under 125 pages) but I felt like the romance just wasn’t really there enough. However, Pippa is running from the city and is desperate for this job to work out.

The heroine: Pippa – Hired to be the nanny, she has to prove her worth in the next few days because the roads will soon close and it will be too late for her to get back to London and too late for Brandon to hire someone that might work out.

He is afraid she will starve to death, and the crying is driving him and his servants crazy. His wife died very recently during childbirth and his daughter rose cries all the time and won’t take a bottle. The Hero: Brandon – He is is a wealthy landowner with a title (Baron). Each year during the winter the roads become impassible so nobody can get in from the city or go back to the city after snows start to fall. The setting: England manor house in the country. Very different Beauty and the Beast retelling!

Rose in the dark