All Through the Night…

All Through the Night by Connie Brockway was surprising because I read it by accident. I meant to open a different eBook. However, the notion to close the book and open the originally intended novel went out the window as I finished reading the prologue. Any further doubt was eradicated when I noticed I was well into Chapter 3, and I complained when someone suggested that I stop reading to play a board game… as if! 

The heroine, Anne, is a complicated character, a bit of a hoyden wild-child, and given the neat twist that she has begun to lead a double life. Her double life was catalyzed by her return to society as she plays chaperone to her sister-in-law who has just come out for her first London season. It is in the disguise of her secret identity as an expert thief that Anne, aka the Wrexhall Wraith, meets the hero, Jack, for the first time, and their encounter is hot and spicy.

I was eager to see how Jack was going to reconcile his emotions and outright lustful feelings he had for a thief he was supposed to apprehend! Wouldn’t that be the ultimate fly in the ointment if he then met Anne in her public guise and wanted her then too– but didn’t put two and two together that she was both and thought he was crazy hot for two different people? Yes, it would, and that is Brockway’s plot twist that drew me in.

My only complaint might be considered plebeian in that I sometimes wish there were more romance and less plot in historical fiction. I was impressed at the depth and breadth of the intrigue that machinated the plot movement, but for slower readers, those portions might drag to the point that one might lose patience and stop reading. I would suggest powering through; it is a worthwhile conclusion.

This might be the first book I have read by this author. If this is indeed the case, this book is a promising start, and I eagerly seek out another by Connie Brockway.

All Through the Night is available on Kindle Unlimited!