Winter White (Belles, #2)

by Jen Calonita

The daughters of a North Carolina senator, Isabelle and Mirabelle, who are still reeling from the knowledge that they are not cousins, but actually sisters, barely have time to process the news with cotillion season right around the corner.

• ISBN10: 0316091162
• ISBN13: 9780316091169
• Publish Date: 9 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Poppy
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

For some reason I just couldn't really like this book. I really enjoyed Belles so I was surprised when I read this book and realised I was bored most of the way through.

First off I was waiting for something really bad to happen the whole way through but it never did happen, I thought Dylan was going to be a really horrible person but found out she wasn't even a bad person in the end. So I wondered why I was made to really not trust or like her.

Izzie annoyed me so much in this book, she was so self centered all of the time. Always blaming Brayden and making him feel like he was a horrible guy when in reality I completely understood every decision he made. I hated that Izzie didn't once try and look at things from his point of view. I just thought she was incredibly selfish.

Mira was annoyingly spineless and it drove me crazy. Her self confidence was completely shot down and she didn't even try to improve it. She just went along with what everyone else said and mopped around all the time. She needed other people to make her feel better and that was annoying.

The ending was very anti-climatic and boring. I was just bored most of the way through this. I felt like nothing happened.

[Stephanie]

We join Izzie Scott and the Monroes immeadiatley after the bombshell dropped at the end of Belles. Winter White is mostly focused on cotillion and Bill Monroe’s U.S. Senate run. Most of the book is one long uncomfortable freeze out between Izzie & Mira and their father. The girls can’t forgive him for keeping a secret that affected their lives so deeply.

There is so much going on in Winter White it’s enough to make your head spin. It seems like every other day a new scandal is breaking over the Monroes, cotillion classes aren’t easy and the initiation challenges are stressful. It’s amazing that Izzie and Mira even have time to consider boys. Yet there is some of the dressed in there as well. Izzie and Brayden can’t seem to get past the hurdle of Izzie not fitting into Emerald Cove. Mira can’t tell Kellen how she feels about him. Just when it seems that everything is going to be settled a new scandal rips apart everything all over again.

In all honesty this book is total fluff. There are no hard hitting issues here. Everything wrong in the Monres’ life is settled by the end of the story Winter White is a great read that allows you to indulge in someone book else’s story for awhile. It’s a quaint read that spends a lot of time with the southern tradition of cotillion.

Overall, I enjoyed the story and revisiting the characters of Jen Calonita’s Emerald Cove. Winter White just didn’t resonate with me on a deeper level. For me it was a read meant to help pass the time.