A review by hyouri
A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

3.0

Thank you to Netgalley for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I absolutely adored this book.
It started off giving me hard Bridgerton (the show) vibes, mixed with a little of Spin the Dawn. About halfway through the book though it changed from a focus on her sewing craft/magic to a full blow Pride and Prejudice love story. I was completely here for it.

This book is primarily romance with a a sprinkling of fantasy. It is tragic, longing, and lovely all wrapped in a sickeningly cute box with a bright pink bow. The characters banter and personalities worked well together. It was obvious who the love story will revolve around, but the "plot" drama and mystery of Lovelace was a fun edition to the story. I felt that it kept the story from being to sappy and romantic.
I also can honestly say that Niamh is the first naïve character that I feel was done perfectly well. She came off so genuine, where most naïve characters end up being annoying and stupid. She believed the best in people, gives kindness without thought of anything in return, and is overall just an extremely nice and genuine person. It was incredibly refreshing.
I loved the LGBTQ representation as well.

My only complaints was of course this is an eARC and not a final copy so there were some grammatical errors and misspellings. (not a huge amount though and honestly didn't ruin the writing for me). I wish there would have been some more information about Sophia and Rosa. I get their purpose in the story, but I craved to know more about them and their countries.