Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 I've read a few other books by Jill Myles and I haven't liked them nearly as much as I did this one. The only difference being that this is a closed door romance - meaning that you don't join the couple in the bedroom - but I don't think that's why I liked it more. It's not that it's a fairytale retelling for she has a whole series of them, though they also involve time travel. 
 Perhaps it was because I've never heard of this fairytale. And hearing her explanation at the end - that the original had a sense of 'teaching the little woman a lesson' - I can see why she retold it. 
 I don't care that you could see this early on where it was going, it was lovely. The character development they went through was substantial, at least on Rinda's part, and believable and while we know little of Alek before hand, he is certainly different at the end from the start. I'm happy for Rinda, had she changed any less her return home would have been devastating. I just wish we'd seen her introducing her husband to her sister! That would have been spectacular I'm sure. 
 I've never heard of the King Thrushbeard fairytale and I'm not sure I want to read the original now having enjoyed this one so much. I don't want it ruined!