A review by chloe_liese
It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas

This one was a bit of a mess for me. The Machiavellian undertones continue, people being pawns for marriage and financial security in the desperate days of the landed gentry’s dwindling finances. But this slips into even more sinister places including a glaring lack of consent while Lillian is drunk, that even though this book is from an unfortunately less evolved societal and romance writing time, is a bridge too far for me to cross.

I like how this sets up Lord St. Vincent and the work of his redemption in Devil in Winter, but otherwise this was an uncomfortably problematic book.

CW: mention of parental emotional abuse, abduction, lack of consent, mention/threat of rape.