Sweet Enemy was one of my favourite historical romance novels that I have read in some time and an excellent start to the Veiled Seduction trilogy. This trilogy has me hoping to see much more from Heather Snow.This is a well written novel with interesting characters and a well written love story. This is a novel tat is well researched and includes interesting pieces of history, science and politics. For readers of historical romance who like their historical romances to have a real and believable feel to them.It was a welcome change of pace to have Geoffrey so focused on politics and for him to be so civic-minded, something you don't see much in romance heroes. It was also a welcome change of pace for Liliana to be so focused on science, something that is very rare in a historical romance heroine. Even with all of this going on, the plot regarding the murder of Liliana's father fir right in and felt welcome. This is a book I would re-read. I do get a little tired of the "scientifically-minded person is blindsided by undiscovered phenomena known to laymen as 'emotion' and 'passion'" trope. This title's take on it is better-- it's not that she doesn't *have* emotions, she's just deliberately closed herself off from them since her father's death, in order to pursue justice for him. I particularly enjoyed the slow evolution of Liliana's feelings towards Geoffrey, how she struggles with the notion of falling for someone who may well have been responsible for her father's murder. And on Geoffrey's side, his (totally warranted) mommy issues, his struggle with trusting and loving a woman who might turn out to be like his manipulative mother... on both sides, their struggles against the romance you KNOW is growing is both painful and completely believable. Definitely looking forward to the next one-- I was wondering what had happened to Aveline.
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Look for my review of "Sweet Enemy" on the Romance Reviews Today website in February 2012!
—cassie
