A review by notsobinaryart
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

4.75

Is this book a bit melodramatic? Yes. Do I eat it all up, kicking my little feet in the joy and romance and tension of it all? Also yes!

I'm not a big historical romance kinda person, but this book might have changed things for me! Or, at the least, for Adriana Herrera historical romances.

The audiobook narrator, Nneka Okoye, is phenomenal her use of accents and clear emotion really transports me into the story. Sometimes I have an issue with romance audiobook narrators raising their voice for the woman roles or lowering their voice for the male roles when they have to narrate a gender that doesn't align with their own, but just switching the accents beautifully makes such a big difference in enjoyment. I wasn't so sure about reading a historical romance as they can be pretty dry for me, but the narrator and the story itself both insured this be anything but a boring read! I can't wait to read the rest of this series by audio as well.

a few quotes:
  • "what does kissing have to do with love?"
  • "love was for girls who had someone to depend on. for her, it was merely one more item on the long list she could not afford"
  • "Looks at the stars while I give you this”
    • context:
      Him to her while fingering her!! On the Eiffel Tower!!
  • "It’s easy to judge our morality or call us weak, but when the world is controlled by men that see us as dispensable, our survival depends on learning to discern between the battles we can win and which ones we can’t afford to lose”
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