After reading something full of despicable people, I wanted to read something fun and light. Next up – Lisa Kleypas’ Someone to Watch Over Me. Apparently this is the first in a Bow Street Runners series she did in the late 90s/early 00s. Someone centers on Grant Morgan, a Bow Street Runner (i.e., private detective kind of?) with renowned success, remarkable height, and distinctive green eyes. He gets a ‘call’ about a body floating in the Thames. He is surprised to find when he rolls […]
Kleypas is getting demoted
I had super high hopes for this book, and it just didn’t live up to them. While reading it I thought that it was the best in the series so far, but on reflection, it’s now tied with Marrying Winterborne (though it ends up with a lower grade because I am trying to be stricter with myself on grading and be slightly less generous). Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, is the heir to a dukedom and a young man-about-town who is enjoying the finer things in […]
“Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution.”
Lady Pandora Ravenel, one of the late Earl of Trenear’s twin daughters is suffering through her first season. Normally she spends her times at balls sitting with the wallflowers, having invented some convoluted excuse for her inability to dance that evening. When a newly married friend of hers asks for her help to retrieve a lost earring, Pandora braves her fear of the dark to go out to the deserted pavilion, searching for the earring and getting herself soundly stuck in an elaborate piece of […]
He Smelled Like a Very Expensive Forest
“He smelled like an expensive forest.” The goddess of romance writers, Lisa Kleypas, has not lost her clever touch. What starts as potential ruination and scandal quickly changes into a fierce love match when Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, and Lady Pandora Ravenel are caught in a compromising position when her dress is caught in the scroll work of a settee at exactly the wrong moment. Encouraged, but not badgered, by her family, Pandora agrees to spend time with her erstwhile seducer despite her very strong […]