Author: J’nell Ciesielski
Ch: 33 Plus epilogue
Pg: 400
Genre: Historical fiction, Historical romance
Rating: 4.5 stars
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
The
Ice Swan is the newest book by J'nell
Ciesielski and is set in Paris during The Great War though we get one chapter
in Russia. Sventlana Dalsky is a Russian Princess who's also a Ballerina
who has fled to Paris to escape the Red Army and the Russian Revolution with
her sister and mother. She ends up needing help, help that comes in the
form of Doctor Wynn MacCallan and a a marriage of convenience. She
accepts.
This
is the second book of J'nell's that I've read, and I haven't been disappointed
yet. She knows how to thread romance through a story without it being too
much. The Ice Swan to me was a bit of an Anastasia retelling but with a
happier ending more like the animated movie from the 90s Though I wanted a
little more Russia I understand why we only got a chapter. But I loved the Paris
and later Scottish setting. Not mention it had one of my favorite
historical romance tropes marriage of convenience or as I like to call it
marriage of necessity a trope I only recently discovered I loved and now I
can't get enough of books with it. The Ice Swan like most of J'nell's
Ciesielski lean more towards main stream historical but they are clean no
language and any implied steamy scenes are off the page and not
mentioned. The Ice Swan was a wonderful read and I look forward to
J'nell's next book The Brilliance of Stars that proposes the question of
What if the Winter Solider fell in love, what can I say that tagline has me
hooked.
I received a copy of this book from the
publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All
opinions expressed are mine alone.
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