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A review by the_rabble
Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
She's a gentlewoman novelist, he's the ill-reputed publishing magnate she's mistaken for her birthday sex worker.
2 POVs + 1 brief side character POV, historical 1800s UK "will they/wont they" romance, surprisingly spicy, 3rd person, past tense.
Pacing is great. Plot works. The internal conflict that spikes the relationship is consistent, but you don't end up wallowing in it.
Intimacy, both physically and emotionally, is well-paced. Characters make relatable choices.
Bummer: Prose has some ocassional fatphobia (fatness as indicative of unpleasant people), which felt odd bc there seemed to be an attempt to paint the heroine as "curvy" adjacent ("voluptuous")
Kleypas-specific: Only one side character evokes "cat people are sexy" allusions 👍 (Our author leans heavy on that in the Ravenels.)
Narrator: rock solid Beverley Crick performance. One of the protagonists is Irish and her accent work was good.
2 POVs + 1 brief side character POV, historical 1800s UK "will they/wont they" romance, surprisingly spicy, 3rd person, past tense.
Pacing is great. Plot works. The internal conflict that spikes the relationship is consistent, but you don't end up wallowing in it.
Intimacy, both physically and emotionally, is well-paced. Characters make relatable choices.
Bummer: Prose has some ocassional fatphobia (fatness as indicative of unpleasant people), which felt odd bc there seemed to be an attempt to paint the heroine as "curvy" adjacent ("voluptuous")
Kleypas-specific: Only one side character evokes "cat people are sexy" allusions 👍 (Our author leans heavy on that in the Ravenels.)
Narrator: rock solid Beverley Crick performance. One of the protagonists is Irish and her accent work was good.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Fatphobia