A review by chloe_liese
Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

This was hot, yes, and I liked seeing the wallflowers come together to advocate for their own interests in a world that used women as pawns for social and financial gain, but this still exhibited the earlier Kleypas storytelling tendency to much more tell than show that just doesn’t work for me. I want to *see* their emotional connection and growth, not just be told in three paragraphs. The pacing was also pretty slow—I would have loved to wrap up the stony cross time at the 30% mark and see a bit more subplot take us somewhere more interesting than a constant back and forth between Simon & Anabelle.