Review: Masquerade – Sarita Leone

A New Year’s resolution given in a moment of frivolity must be upheld when masks come off, leaving identities–and hearts–revealed.

Sophie Teasdale has turned down every eligible bachelor in London. She longs to marry for love, rather than security, but no man has offered her both. The memory of a stolen embrace with her childhood friend Colin Randolph has left her confused about her feelings for him. When a handsome stranger sweeps her off her feet at a masquerade ball, she’s more confused than ever. Does she love Colin, or is the stranger the man she’s been dreaming of?

There has never been any woman for Colin Randolph but Sophie, but she doesn’t see him as a man, only her childhood playmate. Is she too inexperienced to understand his hesitant advances–or is he forced to forever love her from afar? A New Year’s blizzard and a masquerade ball provide him with the chance to convince Sophie the man of her dreams has been by her side all along.

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Release Date: March 25, 2013
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Source: Provided by Author/Publisher via Manic Readers
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Masquerade was a very slow moving and confusing story. In the beginning I had a hard time following what was going on with what sister. Sophie and Rachel were pretty going through the same thing, and are intertwined. After sorting that out it became interesting the plot flowed choppily, throughout I felt as if I was missing bits and pieces that tidy up the plot.

The characters were very one dimensional lacking personal growth. The romance between Sophie and Colin, wasn’t exciting or very romantic for that matter. I felt no real passion between, the just seemed like old friend who were very comfortable with each other and their habits.