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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
On the night of her brother's wedding, Haven Travis accidentally makes out with Hardy Cates, one of the same brother's enemies. Their connection is electric but she ends up marrying her boyfriend. The same boyfriend her whole family and her friends are warning her about. And it turns out, they're right. It was certainly interesting to read a book where the heroine was with another man for a good quarter of the book. And to see that both she and the hero have issues. Deep-seated issues.
emotional
slow-paced
[reread] La mejor novela de la saga de los Travis y me atrevería a decir que la mejor novela de Kleypas.
Kleypas te permite enamorarte de los personajes dejando claro sus defectos, entendiendo sus recelos y haciendo un trabajo de empatía por parte de la autora de entender la complejidad de las dinámicas familiares. Ya que hay personajes que aparecen en la primera novela y se les ve ciertas características ya que los vemos desde el punto de vista de alguien ajeno a los Travis y aquí vemos esos mismos personajes desde el punto de vista de la única hermana Travis por lo que su experiencia con el patriarca o con los otros hermanos es distinta a la de Liberty en el primer libro.
Este hecho hace que la lectura te atrape y te haga leer toda la saga.
TW: maltrato de género; violencia machista; hija pródiga
Kleypas te permite enamorarte de los personajes dejando claro sus defectos, entendiendo sus recelos y haciendo un trabajo de empatía por parte de la autora de entender la complejidad de las dinámicas familiares. Ya que hay personajes que aparecen en la primera novela y se les ve ciertas características ya que los vemos desde el punto de vista de alguien ajeno a los Travis y aquí vemos esos mismos personajes desde el punto de vista de la única hermana Travis por lo que su experiencia con el patriarca o con los otros hermanos es distinta a la de Liberty en el primer libro.
Este hecho hace que la lectura te atrape y te haga leer toda la saga.
TW: maltrato de género; violencia machista; hija pródiga
7/21 - audiobook.
this always used to be my fav bc hardy but ten years later my tastes changed. haven’s backstory is too heavy. liberty gage is new fave
this always used to be my fav bc hardy but ten years later my tastes changed. haven’s backstory is too heavy. liberty gage is new fave
I liked it, did not love it. The domestic abuse part was the most interesting. I never felt the romance between the two main characters. Seemed more lust than love.
3/15/20: 4 stars. Really enjoyed the story this go round - possibly even more than Sugar Daddy.
8/30/12: I enjoyed rereading this novel. The plot was good and moved steadily. I liked the characters. The only problem I had was the "reputation" of Hardy. From "Sugar Daddy," he was a great adolescent and a good man, despite horning in on Gage's deal. Throughout this entire book, he was described as ruthless and twisty, but he really wasn't. Sure he had that moment when his dad got out of prison, but I thought it was weak and unconvincing.
8/30/12: I enjoyed rereading this novel. The plot was good and moved steadily. I liked the characters. The only problem I had was the "reputation" of Hardy. From "Sugar Daddy," he was a great adolescent and a good man, despite horning in on Gage's deal. Throughout this entire book, he was described as ruthless and twisty, but he really wasn't. Sure he had that moment when his dad got out of prison, but I thought it was weak and unconvincing.
4/6/2013 Reread 3/20/18 ; 5/17/2021 some other rereads between 2013 and 2018 too but not tracked
This book was amazing! I hadn't read Lisa Kleypas before, and didn't really have a background on any of the characters. But that didn't really matter as it was great as a stand alone book. I read this book in less than 2 days, and the pace kept up throughout. There were none of those boring passages that can happen so regularly (to me at least!), that make you put a book down and have trouble picking it up again. I found both the main characters really likeable, and all the secondaries as well.
I would highly recommend this book, and will keep reading this author.
I would highly recommend this book, and will keep reading this author.
A couple of things I thought were really interesting about this book. 1) it featured the protagonist in an abusive marriage, which was so interesting to watch the decline into abuse. It makes you realize just how easily something like this could happen to anyone. 2) After she gets out of the abusive relationship, she seeks counseling WHICH IS SO GOOD. Seriously, so good for her to find someone to talk to and get perspective on things and to process in a healthy way.
CW for the book:
This book is significantly better than the first in the series. I wasn't used to Lisa Kleypas writing in first person in the other book, but I felt like she found her groove with this one. I really enjoyed the heroine, and it reading this book and the heroine's journey really felt like watching Lisa Kleypas herself work through her research on what it means to live in an abusive relationship, what narcissistic personality disorder means, how to grapple with very traditional gender roles, etc.
This is a 4-star book off the strength of the heroine alone, but I had a couple of niggling issues with the plot and the romance. While I loved Hardy, I didn't entirely buy why he would be so attracted to Haven beyond the intense initial physical chemistry they shared. Since this is first person limited POV (heroine's only), it was easy to understand why Haven was skittish around relationships and around Hardy, and how she works to a place where she can trust and love Hardy. But she's quite withholding of information with Hardy, and it just doesn't feel like she reveals a lot about herself — or at least we don't see a lot of it on page — so Hardy's devotion and care seems natural to the READER, but it's not entire clear what it's based off of from Hardy's POV.
A final complaint is that there is a lot of gender essentialist shit and a lot of casual misogyny too — men don't like to listen to problems, they like to fix things, "loose women," etc etc etc.
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on-page rape, domestic abuseThis book is significantly better than the first in the series. I wasn't used to Lisa Kleypas writing in first person in the other book, but I felt like she found her groove with this one. I really enjoyed the heroine, and it reading this book and the heroine's journey really felt like watching Lisa Kleypas herself work through her research on what it means to live in an abusive relationship, what narcissistic personality disorder means, how to grapple with very traditional gender roles, etc.
This is a 4-star book off the strength of the heroine alone, but I had a couple of niggling issues with the plot and the romance. While I loved Hardy, I didn't entirely buy why he would be so attracted to Haven beyond the intense initial physical chemistry they shared. Since this is first person limited POV (heroine's only), it was easy to understand why Haven was skittish around relationships and around Hardy, and how she works to a place where she can trust and love Hardy. But she's quite withholding of information with Hardy, and it just doesn't feel like she reveals a lot about herself — or at least we don't see a lot of it on page — so Hardy's devotion and care seems natural to the READER, but it's not entire clear what it's based off of from Hardy's POV.
A final complaint is that there is a lot of gender essentialist shit and a lot of casual misogyny too — men don't like to listen to problems, they like to fix things, "loose women," etc etc etc.