Lightning review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 A Midnight Dance by Lila DiPasqua is complete ridonkadonk historical crazy sauce. The cover and title suggest that it's a Cinderella story, but I'm not sure it really qualifies. 
 A lot of things happen in this book fairly rapidly. New characters are introduced so quickly it's difficult to tell them apart. When I got to the conspiracy involving Jules' dad, I was pretty much lost. This book suffers from a case of Way Too Much Plot Held Together By Sex Scenes. Rather than focus on the internal conflict between Sabine and Jules, the external conflicts (and boning) drive the novel. And Jules seems to fall in love with Sabine because she's so great in bed and they have sexual chemistry. 
 Overall the novel suffered from a crazy, meandering plot and a use of sex in place of emotional development. Jules wasn't particularly likeable either-he spends most of his time thinking about Sabine and how sex-able she is and doesn't fully see her as a person until she's almost raped by another man. I love a good Cinderella story but A Dance at Midnight wasn't it. 
 - Elyse