Elle (ellexamines)'s Reviews > The Hellion's Waltz

She’d always been fierce that way: the more someone needed, the more she wanted to give.

In this third installment of Olivia Waite’s f/f historical novels, piano teacher Sophie Roseingrave finds herself caught up investigating the schemes of silk-weaver Maddie Crewe, who aims to take down a greedy tailer named Mr. Giles. It’s a sort of mashup between a romance and a heist novel.

I think Olivia Waite has such a clever way of drawing characters with realistic insecurities who still never feel pathetic. When her characters fail to freely love each other, you feel the reasons why. Never falling onto miscommunication tropes, she truly builds these people as complex.

However, I really do concur with most of the other reviews on this page that this is decidedly the weakest character development and arc work from this series. Additionally, there's less going on with the heist. I absolutely agreed with Lex’s point about the presence of a prologue being a potential way to counteract this.

Overall, even though this one wasn't a spectacular read, I'm a big fan of this author and would highly recommend especially the first novel of this series.

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