Marrying Winterbourne is the second book in the current Lisa Kleypas historical romance Ravenel series, and, while it is better than its predecessor, Cold-Hearted Rake, it still not up to the standard of her classics or even her stronger books. Spending insufficient time with the love story, though plenty with the smolder, it started with a wallflower and a rake, Kleypas’s forte, and swiftly landed in Big Misunderstanding territory – which experienced romance readers will tell you means the leads’ problems could be solved with one honest […]
A for Improvement
This book a nice return to form for Lisa Kleypas. She is one of my top two favorite historical authors, and the last book (Cold Hearted Rake) was a huge let down. This is the second book in the Ravenel series, and I’m liking the Victorian setting. The set up for this story in Rake was that Helen Ravenel is a very sheltered, slightly fragile young woman looking to *maybe* break out of her shell. Rhys Winterborne (in the vein of many Kleypas heroes) is […]
Revolutionary era romance
So starting in 2013 I began my re-discovery of the romance genre. First with the master, Ms. Kleypas, but then continued further and Ms. Quinn was an early one. I overall quite enjoyed her Bridgerton series (and recently just discovered the second epilogues) so when I saw that she was starting a new series spun off of my beloved Bridgertons I had to get it from the library. This is the story of Billie (Sybilla) Bridgerton, aunt of all the previous series, and George, neighbor […]
When I ignored my strongest feelings out of a misguided obligation to fairness, I had no feelings left
1.5 stars When I first started this book, I saw its potential: a marriage had fallen apart, ostensibly due to a wife’s coldness, while she herself seemed tortured by genuine love for her husband that she locked away inside herself for fear it was unrequited. Excited to learn the source of this inconsistency, and intrigued by the result of the marriage’s annulment — the wife takes up a series of international posts as a surgeon — I looked forward to unraveling the story. There will […]
An utterly ridiculous cover for a book that’s more about probability than rippling abs
I really like the cut of Cecilia Grant’s jib. Her romances read as refreshingly simple, high on practicality and low on histrionics. The leads each have set out to accomplish something, and they find that the other has complementary skills and therefore can help each other achieve their goals. Along the way, their respect for each others’ talents becomes admiration and love. It’s not romantic, in the traditional sense of the genre, with wind-swept hair and rain-soaked gowns and proclamations of love on cliff-tops. But […]
I wish this had been a novella
I feel guilty about giving this a low grade (for me), but there it is. I wish this book had been a novella instead of a novel. I rarely feel that way, but this is one of those cases. This is book 7 (the final book) of the Survivors’ Club series. I appreciate it when authors write each book in a series so that you could pick up any one of them and not be lost, but I also think it is perfectly acceptable for […]
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