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A review by labyrinth_witch
Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
4.0
First off, let's just agree that Pandora is hands down the love of this series. I couldn't wait for her story - all her quirkiness and coining her own words for what she was feeling. How she does just what she feels like doing, social judgements be damned. I wish all women were Pandoras!
What I loved most about this book was it's central theme of what women had to give up in marriage - rights to their own work, income, bank accounts - everything. Furthermore, it comes as a slap to Gabriel who had never thought about any of these issues. His older sister serves as the perfect introverted character, amused that her baby brother was about to mature in ways he didn't realize he needed to grow up. Healthy love will do that to a person.
I thought it was interesting how Kleypas mixed Pandora up in the political turmoil of the time, almost as a reminder that this push and pull around immigration of certain peoples has a long-standing history. While it's the drama that pushes the narrative along, I wish that Pandora had been more interested in and aware of the issues related to this turmoil. Or that it somehow connected to her political interests of enfranchising women. As it was, the two issues seemed a bit unrelated and I was left feeling sorry that she couldn't use that supplier - herself a business woman.
I loved how the rest of the books start from the moment of Pandora and Gabriel's wedding. It was a lot of fun to begin each book by going back in time to the moment of the wedding and then following each separate set of characters from there.
What I loved most about this book was it's central theme of what women had to give up in marriage - rights to their own work, income, bank accounts - everything. Furthermore, it comes as a slap to Gabriel who had never thought about any of these issues. His older sister serves as the perfect introverted character, amused that her baby brother was about to mature in ways he didn't realize he needed to grow up. Healthy love will do that to a person.
I thought it was interesting how Kleypas mixed Pandora up in the political turmoil of the time, almost as a reminder that this push and pull around immigration of certain peoples has a long-standing history. While it's the drama that pushes the narrative along, I wish that Pandora had been more interested in and aware of the issues related to this turmoil. Or that it somehow connected to her political interests of enfranchising women. As it was, the two issues seemed a bit unrelated and I was left feeling sorry that she couldn't use that supplier - herself a business woman.
I loved how the rest of the books start from the moment of Pandora and Gabriel's wedding. It was a lot of fun to begin each book by going back in time to the moment of the wedding and then following each separate set of characters from there.