bed in the English Piatkus Books (First published in Great Britain in 2008). In Italy the novel is unpublished.
Warning: spoilers.
In this novel Julia Quinn wanted to deal with a shady hero, trying to explore the depths of a soul darkened by lonely childhood and the violence of war. Let's say it was too early in his career as a writer or, more likely, the painful side of life is not in the ropes and into the pen of our Julia.
The story limps like the protagonist, John Blackwood, made lame during the fighting in the Iberian Peninsula. This war has served to turn out a lot of people "lived" to all the authors regency, from the worthy and Georgette Heyer is a mine of episodes that drag their impact on the romantic stories strewn with obstacles.
The nice thing about DANCING AT MIDNIGHT is part of the triptych that began with the sparkling Splendid and ends with the delightful Minx , so meet again several times all the protagonists of the other two great novels: Emma, \u200b\u200bAlex and Dunford. The most delicious scenes, in my opinion, are those which appear in the above, which will inevitably steal the show from the two troubled lovebirds of this book. However, the touch of Julia Quinn also makes reading pleasant and sweet sentiments of Lady Arabella Blydon John problematic with regard to its end with the draw us to the end.
We met Belle in Splendid , where, as Emma's cousin and confidant of the future Duchess of Ashbourne, had a substantial and substantial development of the plot. So we already know of his passion for reading, that makes it different from its peers and cute, despite her undoubted beauty and its legions of admirers, this intellectual trend makes it more demanding in terms of feelings. Arabella looking for love and marriage market of the London season is not for her. For this is spending a few weeks to Westonbirt, the country residence of the Dukes of Ashbourne, fresh spouses. Emma is already pregnant and prefers to live his joys with love Alex in complete privacy, for which Belle has plenty of time to read and wander through the park property. And it is while she's sitting at the foot of a tree, screwed up eyes become myopic by the tour de force reading of the complete works of Shakespeare (in alphabetical order: A Challenge began in the pages of Splendid ), which, looking up, it crosses that of a handsome stranger to note that the half smile. Lord John Blackwood, the seventh son of a penniless count, abandoned to his fate from a family that had neither the means nor the interest to take care of him, fought the war in Spain and was knighted for his heroic deeds . When he returned home wounded, fought savagely against a doctor who wanted to amputate his leg injury and has learned to live with the pain that the effort to walk again inflicts. A dramatic fact of which he was helpless witness and which is described from the first pages of the novel has made him a marked man by guilt, convinced that it is not worthy to feel happiness and to be loved by a woman. The self-flagellation and psychological violence with which John Blackwood is imposed atonement contrast with the sentiments he feels unstoppable instantly to Belle. Feelings for each other, among other things.
In five years of hard work and skillful investments, John has accumulated enough money to buy the aristocratic mansion that borders Westonbirt and so feel redeemed by the lack of affection and consideration from his family, winning by only that the birth had denied him.
Belle perceive the depth and soul of this man instinctively feels to be his need. From the beginning, do not give up and try in every way to see it and make their way into his heart. Business success in starting, but John refuses to let go and oppose with all his strength to love who is convinced he deserves. Obviously, the passion goes beyond these mental fixations, and the two end up convoluted. This evolution is not the end of the story, because there first to fix the slope with a psychopath who wants to kill John. The affair dates back to the tragic ugly event happened in Spain, which is the Due to the discomfort of self-and that creates a barrier between John and the love that Arabella would flood it. Fortunately, this misguided and disjointed events proceed, we are gladdened by the presence of Alex and Emma and Dunford's ironic, as well as a surreal character: the great aunt of Alex, Persephone, a grumpy woman brings hired to act as a chaperone John and Belle during the absence of her parents, which, while failing miserably in its task of monitoring will be essential to defeat the killer ridiculous.
One wonders, moreover, as the poetic license to let go unnoticed that the lameness of John does not prevent him from jumping up and down from the horse, raise Fine, bring the arm up the stairs, climb trees and perform countless other moves surprisingly fast. Julia Quinn mentions that these efforts, however, the pain's cause, but that does not justify the miracle. What a man! But I do not take it. Maybe you have not realized that my heart still beats for Alex?
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