Book Evaluation:
Plot: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️
World Building:🌎🌎🌎🌎
Cover:📔📔📔📔📔
Hero: 🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻
Heroine:🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️
Intimacy Level: 🔥
Relationship Building: 💒💒💒💒
Heart & Feels:💞💞💞💞💞
Witty/Banter/Reaction of Laughter: 😂😂😂😂
Page Turner Level:📖📖📖📖📖
Narration:🎧🎧🎧🎧
Ending:🧧🧧🧧🧧🧧
Overall View: ✨✨✨✨.5


First Impressions
Cloaked in Beauty is the most recent installment in the "Texas Ever After" series. This is a combination of Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood. If you are looking for a very close and vivid retellings of classic fairy tales with a western twist....then looked no further than the Texas Ever After series. This series is so superb and Cloaked In Beauty was a fantastic addition to the series and I fell so captivated by this series. It was fascinating to see how this series was built. I was so intrigued in the way in which these two retellings were blended and she definitely made it work so well. Every time I read this author, I am overwhelmed in all of the feelings she portrays flawlessly.

First Line
Nightmares were supposed to stop once little girls woke up, but when five-year-old Scarlette Radcliffe opened her eyes, things only got worse.

The Main Protagonists
The Hero: Phillip Carmichael
The Heroine: Letty Hood

Summary
Letty Hood was hidden away with her grandmother secretly in a cabin in the woods, when her father was killed and her uncle attempted to kill her in a fire. Her mother hid her away until such time she could claim her inheritance. But now she is at the time of adulthood, and her mother is ready to bring her home. When she learns that her uncle may have located her, her mother hires Pinkerton agent Philip Carmichael to find her daughter and bring her home. Philip manages to find Letty before her uncle's men do, but they are on a time crunch, and through their journey in the back woods, and her pet wolf they journey slowly back to her mother and safety. There is a attraction and deep love that forms between them....but Philip is beneath Letty in class and wealth and wonders if she will still want him by her side when she goes back to the world she was born into...

What I Loved
Cloaked in Beauty was a endearing retelling and this author is pure magic for me! I couldn't put this one down and I just fell so deep for Letty and Philip. This combined retelling really came to life with such vibrancy and poignant emotion. I really appreciated in how this author brought such balance to this series. This romance was such a blast. I loved both characters, and they really balanced each other out. And this had another heroine was was mature, took control when needed, and had such a loving heart. I loved how fiery she could be but also balanced it out with a soft and gentle nature. Her pet wolf was such a nice touch to the series. The romance that builds between Philip and Letty was slow at times, but their banter was witty and almost had a magical charm to it that constantly tugged at my heartstrings. They make such a great pair together and that ending was everything.

What I Struggled With
Not much honestly. I do wish we saw more kissing and affection but I know its an inspirational romance so you don't see so much of that. But it delivered in many ways.

Narration
Brilliant. She really captures this author's writing style so well and really pulls me into the story.

Overall View
Cloaked in Beauty is a captivating retelling that is packed with wit, charm and a light touch of spiritual focus to inspire and endear from beginning to end.

Book Details (also in my shelves)
Sub Genre: Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance, Set in American West/Frontier
Character Types: Private Investigator, Protector
Themes: Western, Animal Lovin', Heart/Emotionally Touching
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Fairy Tale Retelling-Sleeping Beauty & Red Riding Hood

Book Perspective
3rd POV

Relationship Conflict vs Plot Conflict
Plot

If you like these authors, I recommend This Book
Mary Connealy
Laura Frantz
Tracie Peterson

Recommendation For Reading Order
Standalone

Steam/Spice Explanations

Simmering cup of tea---soft warm touches and light intimacy
Warmin' by the fire- a medium level of sexual tension, a balance of sexual and emotional intimacy, lighter on the details in the sexual moments.
Steamin' up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes.
Blazing fire to the building-The prime focus is the sex scenes, scorching hot, and could burn one. Less focus on the emotional intimacy to the relationship.

Narrators:
Barbarah McCulloh