I thoroughly enjoyed this romance. It is very atmospheric and you won’t be able to put this one down.
Many thanks to London Wall Publishing and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I am sorry that I couldn't complete the book on time and it got expired. I am giving 1 star because of the book description. I liked the synopsis and that is why I asked for the book.

Another super, engrossing romance from Hannah Fielding. I'm gradually working my way through them all!

I loved this story! I have loved this whole story! The passion between Luz and Andres is heavy and great! I felt like I was right along in the story because everything was so descriptive! I felt that the author maybe rushed the end a little but I definitely was surprised with the twist at the end!!! I hope there is another story because I can't wait to get my hands on it!

A man,against his will, who is driven to be deceptive, a women who holds out for love.
A forbidden love by both of their families but love will find a way whether family and friends approve or not. This book takes place in Spain in Summer of 1976. The orange of the sun and heat,the colorful flowers,the sandy beaches,the blue crashing waves of the beaches and the cooler evening air. The festive music and tantalizing smells of the food drifting on the air. It's all here in this sumptuous story of forbidden love.
Pub Date 29 Sep 2015
Thank you to NetGalley and London Wall Publishing for a review copy in exchange for my honest review.

Luz is a write spending time in Spain. While she is horse back riding, she falls and gets a head injury. She is saved by Leandro, a mysterious man to whom she is instantly attracted to. The two begin a relationship that leaves Luz uncertain due to the fact that he is a Gypsy. She distances herself with work, and by spending time with her employer Andrés. I really liked this book. It was nicely detailed so you felt like you know everything that Luz did. I literally felt like I had been to Spain. I could not wait to see who she was going to end up with.

Excellent. Liked the characters and story flow. Recommend reading!

Intrigue doesn't even begin to explain what drew me to this book. I had just finished reading Indiscretion, and started reading this story.

Set in the Spain in the summer of 1976. Luz de Rueda returns to her country and takes a job as the biographer of some famous artist named Eduardo. On her first day back in Cádiz, she encounters a young gypsy, Leandro, who immediately captures her heart, and it's clear that relationships with his kind are taboo, because they call her kind gajo, and do not encourage relations with them. Before she can recover from the sudden feelings he arouses in her, she meets her new employer, the dashing Andrés de Calderón. He's broody, charming and nothing like Leandro, and this upsets Luz. As the story progresses, Luz finds herself caught up in the two men, they are of different social status but they stir unexpected feelings in her and she struggles to come to terms with them.
There is an old fortune teller named Paquita, who warns her to be careful of Gemini, but this duality that she speaks of is a mystery to Luz and more she works in Cadiz, the more she finds herself entangled in a web of lies, secrets and worst of all a cry for vengeance that is linked to her parents.

The Author does not disappoint in immersing the reader into a romance. You'll be taken through the streets of Spain and get swept up in the passion between Luz and Andres/Leandro. The writing is nothing short of magical, and if you're into Astrology, then you'll just find that the old fortune teller's warnings held such truth that they'd light up a galaxy!

I'm glad I got to read this book and the whole Andalucian Night series courtesy of Netgalley, I'm definitely buying myself a copy of Burning Embers and Echoes of Love because I have fallen in love with Hannah's style of writing.

Beautiful, lovely and poignant. The characters were strong and well developed, the plot was captivating and enthralling and the romance perfect. I loved it and would recommend it to everyone

Summer, 1976. Luz de Rueda, a young writer, finally returns to her beloved Spain after years away in England. Her first day back in Cádiz, Luz falls from her horse and suffers a nasty head injury. She is found by Leandro, a young man from a local gypsy family, who cares for her and brings her home. In 1970s Cádiz a relationship with a gypsy is out of the question, but nonetheless Luz is instantly attracted to this mysterious man she knows nothing about.
When Luz and Leandro keep running into each other, on the shores of Cádiz and by the colourful gypsy camps, Luz knows she is falling for him. Yet knowing that their relationship is forbidden by her family, Luz buries herself in her work, a biography of a famous Spanish artist, in an attempt to forget Leandro. But then she meets her employer, Andrés de Calderón, the man who commissioned the book she is working on.
Andrés courts Luz in style, taking her to the running of the bulls in Pamplona and the glittering masquerade balls of Spanish society. Shockingly confronted by André’s secret fiancée, and hearing whispered rumours of a family feud between Leandro’s family and her own, Luz finds herself torn between the two men.
Can Luz unravel the mysterious secrets surrounding the two men, and find love, or will deception ruin them all?

Masquerade is the second book in Hannah Fielding's sweeping Andalucían Nights trilogy but it can also be read as a stand alone title.

This is a follow up to the first book and I knew I wanted to read it after reading that one. This one was just as good. It had some really steamy scenes in it and when I say steamy...I mean set the forest on fire and wait for the animals to run out then douse them with water steamy. This was a descriptive book and by that I mean it describes everything. I've always been told as a speed reader to skim over the descriptive words and gather the importance through conversation...well I would have to skip the book. That would be a shame because I really think this author is lovely. She has done her research and she knows her stuff. I will definitely be getting the next one to read of this authors!

I was given a copy of this ARC from the publisher on Netgalley for a honest review. All of the above comments are my express opinions and no one else's.

While I quite liked the first book, "Indiscretion", I still had a lot to criticise and liked this one more. The books are alike in many ways - the way the story is written is beautiful and very descriptive, the chemistry between the main characters is awesome and the characters themselves are nicely fleshed out (with the exception of Leandro who remains a bit... insipid for a long time as he stays in the background a lot, so I was more attached to Andrés till the end). I also liked how the Spain of the 1970's was painted, like I had enjoyed learning more about the 1950's in book 1.

Usually, I don't really care for love triangles, but the one in "Masquerade" worked most of the time, even though we don't see Leandro as often as Andrés - the feelings she has for both men are written convincingly and the emotional turmoil this causes her made sense. The story also took a great turn at the end; contrary to the first book, I enjoyed the whole plot and even though there are clichés here again, they didn't seem to be so dominant and the twist at the end was especially well written. I did see something like that coming, but it was satisfactory to have guessed it right. It was nice that Luz was allowed to react to what was happening accordingly and that she didn't just ignore it.
Since Luz is the daughter of the protagonists from "Indiscretion", Alexandra, Salvador and some other already known characters show up again and what happened back then becomes important for this story; I really liked those links, even more so because when reading the first book it was like some drama just went away and wasn't resolved, so it was nice to see consequences and that these conflicts were properly resolved. Considering that Luz has her own problems (and not just the ones she inherited), I wonder if they will affect the last book of the trilogy.

I was somewhat disappointed with the characterisation of the 'gypsies'; it was again quite one-sided and mostly negative. I know that the author based them on her experiences with 'gypsies', but I still didn't like it. They are wild, dangerous and fixated on revenge, at least that's the picture I got. That the upper class of Spain has these prejudices makes sense, but that's also (mostly) how they acted on their own... considering that one of Luz' love interests is a 'gypsy', a more balanced representation would have been better. But maybe I'm over-interpreting and I do have to admit that it's just a relatively small part of the story.
That aside, I enjoyed "Masquerade" a lot. I like the way it's written, the characters and their relationships were interesting and the love stories made sense and convinced me. 3.5/5 stars.