Boys and Burlesque by Ripley ProserpinaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
What Happens After Small Town High School Reverse Harems Form
I'd probably give this book 3.5⭐ if I could.
One of the most interesting things about this book is that it is set mainly 8 years after high school graduation. It’s the story of what happens to high school loves when they are a reverse harem in a small town. It’s about what happens when small-minded town folk get involved in shutting down something that could be rather beautiful.
Betsy was raised by her grandmother and had four best friends from kindergarten who all happened to be boys. They grew up together and all fell in love. In a small-minded town they tried to hide their love for each other but they loved each other too much to hide it properly and when two of the boys' fathers got involved the relationship crumbled under the pressure. Sadly it left Betsy alone and with nothing. She had no family who cared for her and no financial support, so instead of getting to go to Juilliard and learning to be a ballet dancer, she ended up a stripper.
Betsy didn’t stay just a stripper though, she used her dancing skills and transformed into Betty Belle a renowned burlesque dancer. 8 years after losing her loves and her future, they choose to come back into her life.
This is a well-constructed book, written from multiple POV. Though it is well structured I believe that if a few honest conversations were had during the course of this book then there would have been a lot less heartache and a lot fewer chapters. I know it makes for drama and intrigue, but sometimes I just want to smack these characters around for being so self-important they can’t see any view, other than their own, as being valid. At least one of the characters acknowledges this in the later stages of the book.
The book is entertaining, and as well as the romantic aspects of the book there is a certain amount of peril that the guys must protect Betsy from, just to add to the intrigue. There are also several sex scenes, however, they were a little bit pedestrian and didn’t exactly have me fanning my face with the heat they generated.
More than anything this is a romantic second chance book, where the male main characters have a shot at redemption and the female main character gives in far too easily, which is par for the course with this type of book. However, much kudos to the author for taking a different approach to the NA RH genre.
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