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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
This was a solid 4 stars for me. I'll admit I did take longer than normal to finish it because it took awhile for me to really get into. But, it was super cute and full of the usual historical romance mushiness. West is adorable and I loved Phoebe. The angst wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. The ending was super rushed and no epilogue... boo!! Thus, one star taken away. Would I read it again? Maybe.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just truly a virtually perfect romance. I loved every single moment of it!
Aff. Amei. 4.5 ★
Sério. Melhor do que o imaginado. Embora não ocorra nada super empolgante, ou cheio de ação como foi os volumes anteriores.
E Lisa Kleypas... que loucura! Ela está finalmente trazendo the Wallflowers para a estória, os laços das amizades de loga data, e está super bacana.
Trazendo Westcliff, Hunt e Challon todos reunidos, e seus filhos que viraram amigos. Mostrando o carinhos entre irmãos - Ivo indo buscar Phoebe, a relação de Raphael com Gabriel - são algumas das características fortes dos livros de Kleypas.
E se você se entediou com Devon no primeiro livro, tenha fé, porque só o primeiro da série é "terrível".
Não estamos falando de uma obra prima da literatura, veja bem. Mas para uma leitura despretenciosa de um domingo nublado, num dia "frio" de verão, sem vontade de sair de casa, e com um Goodreads Challenge para ser concluído, essa série é um santo remedio.
Mordendo minha língua e dando um tapa no meu preconceito novamente, somos lançados na família da Evie e do Sebastian, com sua beleza ridícula e amor que rompeu os "invernos passados", outra vez, para termos Phoebe apresentada, como uma mãe amável e fora do padrão da época - mas super comum nessa nova geração das famílias inglesas dos romances de época; que sofreu o diabo sendo mãe de dois meninos e cuidado de um marido inválido. E, como em todo bom romance, ela odeia um cara sem uma razão muito forte (até Merritt - todos os amores do mundo a essa pessoinha que eu "li pequena" nos Hathaways e hoje era um mulherão incrível - abrir a boca e expor que os traumas de pequenos foram carregados pelo Henry para culpar um homem mais do que doença como vilão de sua invalidez) para odiar West.
E é difícil odiar um homem daquele.
Ao contrário de outros volumes, achei o envolvimento de Phoebe e West mais tranquilo e saudável do que o esperado, por mais que muita coisa tenha ocorrido em uma semana - e haver perdão e maturidade com a resolução dos dois quanto ao vilão de Henry.
Milagrosamente, nesse volume não temos um enfermo, um acidente, ou qualquer risco a vida que fizesse os dois se aproximarem por meio de uma cama e um doente com um pé na vida e outro na morte. Sério, isso é uma raridade. West, na verdade é um poço de virilidade que encheu as paginas desse volume de uma testosterona sarcástica e sensual. Sem presentes malucos, gestos desesperados, ou qualquer coisa muito fora do normal, ele se saiu muitíssimo bem.
Winterborne ficou em segundo lugar no meu ranking mental de homens para vida toda dessa série.
Lido em um dia e agora tenho que esperar praticamente UM ANO para ler Chasing Cassandra (sim, posso ler em inglês quando for lançado em fevereiro, mas tenho uma estante para preservar aqui, veja bem). Será o último da série?
E as capas nacionais são incrivelmente delicadas e super bonitas. Somente os títulos que ficaram bem a desejar.
Sério. Melhor do que o imaginado. Embora não ocorra nada super empolgante, ou cheio de ação como foi os volumes anteriores.
E Lisa Kleypas... que loucura! Ela está finalmente trazendo the Wallflowers para a estória, os laços das amizades de loga data, e está super bacana.
Trazendo Westcliff, Hunt e Challon todos reunidos, e seus filhos que viraram amigos. Mostrando o carinhos entre irmãos - Ivo indo buscar Phoebe, a relação de Raphael com Gabriel - são algumas das características fortes dos livros de Kleypas.
E se você se entediou com Devon no primeiro livro, tenha fé, porque só o primeiro da série é "terrível".
Não estamos falando de uma obra prima da literatura, veja bem. Mas para uma leitura despretenciosa de um domingo nublado, num dia "frio" de verão, sem vontade de sair de casa, e com um Goodreads Challenge para ser concluído, essa série é um santo remedio.
Mordendo minha língua e dando um tapa no meu preconceito novamente, somos lançados na família da Evie e do Sebastian, com sua beleza ridícula e amor que rompeu os "invernos passados", outra vez, para termos Phoebe apresentada, como uma mãe amável e fora do padrão da época - mas super comum nessa nova geração das famílias inglesas dos romances de época; que sofreu o diabo sendo mãe de dois meninos e cuidado de um marido inválido. E, como em todo bom romance, ela odeia um cara sem uma razão muito forte (até Merritt - todos os amores do mundo a essa pessoinha que eu "li pequena" nos Hathaways e hoje era um mulherão incrível - abrir a boca e expor que os traumas de pequenos foram carregados pelo Henry para culpar um homem mais do que doença como vilão de sua invalidez) para odiar West.
E é difícil odiar um homem daquele.
Ao contrário de outros volumes, achei o envolvimento de Phoebe e West mais tranquilo e saudável do que o esperado, por mais que muita coisa tenha ocorrido em uma semana - e haver perdão e maturidade com a resolução dos dois quanto ao vilão de Henry.
Milagrosamente, nesse volume não temos um enfermo, um acidente, ou qualquer risco a vida que fizesse os dois se aproximarem por meio de uma cama e um doente com um pé na vida e outro na morte. Sério, isso é uma raridade. West, na verdade é um poço de virilidade que encheu as paginas desse volume de uma testosterona sarcástica e sensual. Sem presentes malucos, gestos desesperados, ou qualquer coisa muito fora do normal, ele se saiu muitíssimo bem.
Winterborne ficou em segundo lugar no meu ranking mental de homens para vida toda dessa série.
Lido em um dia e agora tenho que esperar praticamente UM ANO para ler Chasing Cassandra (sim, posso ler em inglês quando for lançado em fevereiro, mas tenho uma estante para preservar aqui, veja bem). Será o último da série?
E as capas nacionais são incrivelmente delicadas e super bonitas. Somente os títulos que ficaram bem a desejar.
I love this book! Phoebe, Lady Clare has never met West Ravenal, but she knows him as a brutish bully who tormented her late husband. Her husband Henry told her all the stories of how West bullied him in school. She hated West for what he had done to Henry. Now she finally meets West at a family wedding and of course there has to attraction. West feels deeply attracted to Phoebe and as their relationship blossoms and they face obstacles, he feels he doesn't deserve her in any way. Can Phoebe convince West that he deserves the love she wants to give? Read and find out! Recommend fully. I loved this book from beginning to end. I didn't feel like anything was rushed nor forced in this story. Reading this book made me want to reread The Wallflower series though. ❤
4.5 Devil-ish stars
Let me preface by saying that I had many little nit picks with this book in the beginning; and by no means is this a perfect book. I had issues with Phoebe’s character, everyone kept treating West and Phoebe getting together as a foregone conclusion almost from the start, everything was just a tad too sweet, blah blah. And before I knew it, it was the middle of the night and I was more than halfway in, and there were just so many of these little moments in the story that had me sighing and smiling and crying just a little, and I realized that the author had me under her spell yet again, the wily minx!
I also had another reason for loving this book. One word, Sebastian, former St. Vincent, now Duke of Kingston. The high handed, meddling, sly old duke can still charm the pants off of anyone. I love West, but I love Sebastian more. You can tell from the writing in the scenes he’s in that the author has the same love for one of her most famous heroes that her readers (i.e. Me) do. Once you read the book, the title finally makes total sense, since this book is as much a love letter to Sebastian as it is West and Phoebe’s love story. And if a lot of my reasons for loving this book are wrong, I don’t want to be right 😉
Ahem, now that my love letter to the Devil is over, I was also happy to see more of Severin who’s always intrigued me, but I’m still bothered that we hardly ever get a glimpse of Cassandra. I’m sure the author has her reasons and grand plans for the final installment of the series, so I can’t wait to find out.
Let me preface by saying that I had many little nit picks with this book in the beginning; and by no means is this a perfect book. I had issues with Phoebe’s character, everyone kept treating West and Phoebe getting together as a foregone conclusion almost from the start, everything was just a tad too sweet, blah blah. And before I knew it, it was the middle of the night and I was more than halfway in, and there were just so many of these little moments in the story that had me sighing and smiling and crying just a little, and I realized that the author had me under her spell yet again, the wily minx!
I also had another reason for loving this book. One word, Sebastian, former St. Vincent, now Duke of Kingston. The high handed, meddling, sly old duke can still charm the pants off of anyone. I love West, but I love Sebastian more. You can tell from the writing in the scenes he’s in that the author has the same love for one of her most famous heroes that her readers (i.e. Me) do. Once you read the book, the title finally makes total sense, since this book is as much a love letter to Sebastian as it is West and Phoebe’s love story. And if a lot of my reasons for loving this book are wrong, I don’t want to be right 😉
Ahem, now that my love letter to the Devil is over, I was also happy to see more of Severin who’s always intrigued me, but I’m still bothered that we hardly ever get a glimpse of Cassandra. I’m sure the author has her reasons and grand plans for the final installment of the series, so I can’t wait to find out.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
I enjoyed this for the banter, I like that the hero wasn't alpha, which it seems like the majority of her heroes are (not a knock - her books are some of my favorites), but the end trailed off for me
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just wasn’t feeling this one, or not in the right state of mind for it.
Phoebe, Lady Clare (daughter of Sebastian and Evie from Devil in Winter), married her best friend, even though she knew he was dying. But she had loved Henry from childhood. And, because she loved Henry, she hated the boy who made his life at boarding school hell. Even now, two years after Henry died. And that is especially true now that she's confronted with the boy, er, man himself now that her brother is marrying his cousin.
West Ravenel sort of remembers his school days. He knew that his parents made him a miserable creature who took out his pain on others. When he grew up, he became an indolent rake. At least, he was until his brother unexpectedly inherits a financially insolvent earldom along with a widow (now his brother's wife) and three female cousins. West, much against all expectations, stepped up and became an exceptional estate manager.
Just coming out of the haze of grief, Phoebe realizes that what her father and brother have been telling her is true, she needs to start paying attention to estates, especially the one that is going to her son. And, now gathered for her brother's wedding, she has the perfect chance to ask West about the new changes in farming. If only she can get past Henry's past hurt...
An okay book but not as good as some in the Kleypas canon. Especially since I reread Devil in Winter right before this one.
West Ravenel sort of remembers his school days. He knew that his parents made him a miserable creature who took out his pain on others. When he grew up, he became an indolent rake. At least, he was until his brother unexpectedly inherits a financially insolvent earldom along with a widow (now his brother's wife) and three female cousins. West, much against all expectations, stepped up and became an exceptional estate manager.
Just coming out of the haze of grief, Phoebe realizes that what her father and brother have been telling her is true, she needs to start paying attention to estates, especially the one that is going to her son. And, now gathered for her brother's wedding, she has the perfect chance to ask West about the new changes in farming. If only she can get past Henry's past hurt...
An okay book but not as good as some in the Kleypas canon. Especially since I reread Devil in Winter right before this one.