I've heard about the "polarizing" event in the previous book that caused so many people to hate Sebastian, Lord St. And we are both equally desperate, which leads me to believe that you will agree to my pr-proposition. I love all the little romantic subtleties in this book as affection grows between the pair, Kleypas is a master at this. This one is a real departure from the previous two books which I have to say felt very welcome, as I was getting very fatigued by the forced kisses and ‘bullish’ men after two books. Sometimes her "strong" heroines are just plain bitchy, and sometimes her "sweet" heroines are just spineless doormats that people use for sh*t-sticking practice.

In my experience, a book that has so many ardent fans can either be a sure-fire winner or a huge disappointment. Well, after reading It Happened One Autumn and seeing how she transformed Marcus, Lord Westcliff from a stuffy, uptight arrogant know-it-all, into a sexy, to-die-for-hero, I should've had a little faith--I totally fell for St. He experienced the longest, hardest climax of his life… memories of other women were banished permanently from his mind… there was only Evie, her playful fingers and frolicsome mouth causing him an agony of pleasure like nothing he ever felt before. Kleypas wrote these moments with such tenderness, it was impossible not to shed tears right along with Evie.So she propositions him, he accepts, and then we the reader get to see whether this will be a marriage of convenience only, or maybe something will happen.

It was so Poignant when Evie said that she wouldn't have minded if St Vincent lost his looks, she wanted him for who he was not for his surface veneer. After graduating from Wellesley College with a political science degree, she published her first novel at age twenty-one. She went in with no expectations, and continued to outsmart Sebastian and protect herself as a result. It was a pleasure watching her overcome her shyness and learn to stand up for herself and fight for what she wants - to be with her father who is dying of consumption and to ease him through his final days.

Because there are men out there who take a rich heiress, drug her, try to rape her and force her to marry them. But in my opinion the opposite is true but maybe I just didn’t pay enough attention this time around. So the shy, stuttering heroine (who slips in and out of her character throughout the whole book) approaches the vicious rake and makes him an offer he can’t refuse.

This does not mean she is a pushover, she has her own strength but it’s just not as overt (or loud about it) as Lillian or Annabelle. i sort of wanted to push through since i'm in the middle of so many books and i thought this one might be one that i could actually finish. The Devil in Winter is the book I first came across in this series, and its one of the most highly rated books in the historical romance genre, plus it focuses on Evie – the only true Wallflower in the group – so I was super excited to get stuck into this one.Surely this couldn’t be she … the wallflower Evangeline Jenner … alone in a carriage with a dangerous rake, racing madly to Gretna Green. There is that fear that he may incur additional judgement over revealing something new and raw about himself.

Evie grew up in a life of neglect, cruelty and outright abuse and now has a reasonable fear that if they once her family force her to marry her cousin they will murder her for the money she will inherit when her wealthy, dying father finally passes away. What I love about this book is that the main characters come to the story without any expectations of themselves or each other. He was awfully rude and condescending to Evie when she came to his house to make her proposition and insulted her even further in his introspections which included a disdain for her shyness and her stutter.

His ping-ponging between being nice and gentle with Evie and treating her rather badly, in my opinion, continued throughout more than half the book. She also desperately needed someone to love her, and in spite of Sebastian supposedly becoming a changed man, I didn't feel that intense love connection between them.