With This Kiss, Part Three
By Eloisa James
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The final section of Eloisa James’s first serial romance ends with a sigh-worthy exemplification of the healing powers of love and a happily ever after that leaves readers with a satisfied smile. Colin, with all his alphaness in ascendance, offers Grace persuasive evidence that it is she, not Lily he desires, that she, Grace, is the only woman he wants in his bed, in his dreams, and in his heart. In a scene rich with sizzle and symbolism, Grace becomes “blind” in order to see the truth.
Another classically symbolic
scene that is both passionate and tender precedes one of the most memorably
moving wedding scenes I’ve encountered in romance fiction. In a lovely (both in
the sense of being full of love and in the sense of being beautiful and pleasing
to the beholder) role reversal, Grace becomes the warrior, winning Colin from
the darkness into which war plunged him literally and metaphorically.
Every time they made love, every morning he spent
training Daedalus, every afternoon he spent writing, every evening when he read
aloud another letter, every time he teased her or asked her a question about
one of her paintings, she dragged him farther onto her side. The side with life
in it, not death.
All this and the author still
gives us a delightful epilogue that confirms the tradition of summers at Arbor
House overflowing with children designed to fill their parents’ hearts with
more love and their heads with gray hairs continues happily ever after. With This Kiss has joined my collection
of all-time favorite romances.
The wedding scene in this book
is one that that I will remember with a sigh of appreciation. What’s your
favorite wedding scene from a romance novel?
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