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The Devil in Winter (The Wallflowers, Book 3)
written by Lisa Kleypas
Studio : Avon
by Avon
Release Date : 2006-02-28
Publisher : Avon
Released : 2006-03-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780060562519
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 117 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $2.52
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A devil's bargain Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep to offer her hand. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse. But Evie's proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. She will never become just another of the dashing libertine's callously discarded broken hearts -- which means Sebastian will simply have to work harder at his seductions...or perhaps surrender his own heart for the very first time in the name of true love. |
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Perfected! |
This is book 3 of the Wallflower series and if you have not read the first two, you certainly should begin with Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers, Book 1). Each and every one of Kleypas' books stand alone. However, you will enjoy each much more if you've read the prior and become well acquainted with the characters. Kleypas' absolute gift is taking an unlikely hero or storyline and taking you to a place that you could never have imagined. The subtle journey is a wonder.
Sebastian is the beautiful dangerous rake down on his luck. Evie is the shy wallflower trying to escape the cruelties of her family. Fate and dire circumstances brings them together. What Kleypas marvels at is the intensely passionate, sometimes painful, but always rewarding journey to finding their true love. Once again Kleypas will turn a man incapable of love into the perfect man we all yearn for, but you won't know how or when it happened.
This is my favorite Kleypas book. The storyline and characters will haunt your thoughts for a while. Not many writers can improve year after year. Thankfully, Kleypas does. Enjoy. |
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tepid |
I was really looking forward to this book. From the reviews I thought it was going to be the best in the series. I really didn't like it very much at all. It was so dark and bleary. Most of the book took place in a gaming club. Yuck. I missed the light airy feel to the two previous books. I thought Evie, after surviving her controlling and cruel family, deserved somthing a little more flowery and romantic. I also really missed the interaction between the other wallflowers. They really weren't present at all during this book.
St. Vincent was so unsatisfying as the hero. There was no conflict between him and Evie except the fact that she wouldn't give into his demands for sex. Then we had to listen to him whine and complain like a little brat. This book just wasn't for me. |
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Sexiest hero by LK ever!!! |
Sebastian ST. Vincent was A irresponsible rake in need of A fortune. He thought of no one but himself until he met the shy stuttering wallflower Evangeline Jenner. She is to become the wealthiest of all the wallflower maidens but with her relatives conspiring to have control over her fortune -- she sets out to make A daring proposal to the most handsome and scandalous viscount.
I read this book A few months ago but I could not pass up writing A review for such A great book by Lisa Kleypas! This one is definitely A Keeper! Sebastian is the most sexiest hero LK has ever written about! His looks and personality will blow you away! Both the hero and heroine's character was superbly developed. I love A book that has characters with real life personalities that I can relate to, and this book certainly had that. Sebastian said some of the funniest things to Evie and the chemistry between them was priceless. The storyline was interesting and the love scenes were sensual and sexy. The only problem I had was that I am not A big fan of Lillian so I was annoyed that she had such A big roll in the book and I felt that she overshadowed all the other characters with her huge personality, but that was just A minor setback for me so don't let that stop you from reading this great book! Believe me when I tell you, you won't be dissapointed! |
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I'm hooked again!!! |
I can't begin to tell how perfect this book or this book's hero is. After reading a lot of romance books, some of them quite good, I had given up that I could ever feel the way I did when I first discovered historical romance, about 6-7 years earlier. Books like Whitney my love, Something wonderful, the dangerous gentleman, the hostage, the bride thief, whirlwing wedding, because you're mine, were the ones that introduced me to this genre and had me hooked. These books left me dreaming of the heroes for days and nights after I had finished them. Lately I was beginning to feel jadded, that nothing I read could impress me that much anymore. Of course I've read some good books, but nothing so intense that stayed with me for long after the end was reached. Well, leave it to Kleypas to hook me one more time!
'It happened one autumn' was my first Wallflower book and it was not my cup of tea, so I gave up on the rest of the series. Seeing Sebastian St.Vincent in many of Americancivilwar's forums as one of the best heroes ever, I decided to give the Wallflowers one more try and, boy, am I glad I did! This is perhaps the best book I've ever read about a rake's reform.
The story, as many others have already described it before is that of a marriage of convinience (which has to be one of my favorite plots anyway!). Evie, St.Vincent's wife is a shy and stammering heiress, while St.Vincent is described as the handsomest man in the ton and perhaps the most promiscuous one. Their surroundings are not the ton's spacious ballrooms or country estates, but Evie's gaming club that she inherited from her father.
Don't let the much used plot make you believe that this book is just one of the same. The feelings and passion these two unlikely matched people feel, are flowing off the pages. I read the whole book in a couple of days with a stupid smile on my face the whole time. My husband's remark, when he saw me, was: "THAT GOOD, EH?" Yes, it is THAT GOOD. |
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Gotta love those Rakes! |
Shy, stuttering Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner is threatened by her over-powering relations. They want to keep her fortune in the family (her disreputable father is dying and he owns a successful gambling house) by marrying her to her weak and disgusting cousin. So she escapes and runs to the notorious rake, Sebastian, Viscount St. Vincent, with a proposition. Sebastian has recently unsuccessfully tried to kidnap and marry an heiress, one of Evangeline's fellow Wallflowers, in order to stay solvent. Although he's heir to a Dukedom, his father is a spend-thrift and money is short. Ordinarily, the gorgeous viscount would never look twice at the retiring, virginal Evie, but her proposal is too good to pass up, and--taking that second look-- Evie is actually more interesting than he believed...
Evie is young and inexperienced, but she's got more of a back-bone than it seems from her usual behavior. Her father is dying and she wants to see him and nothing will stand in her way. She's also very aware of what may be the downside of marrying Sebastian. Sebastian has a lot to atone for after kidnapping Evie's friend--who was the fiancee of his best friend, Lord Westcliff. He also admits freely that his is not husband-material. But although he is an admitted rake, he also has some honor and he treats Evie surprisingly gently.
I liked that neither were out to seduce each other. Of course, other things concerned them along the way--rushing to Gretna Green and then heading back to London to see Evie's father, keeping her from her nasty relatives, and reviving the gambling house... It was also nice that although both Evie's and Sebastian's pasts had their dark sides that affected them both, they weren't horribly tortured, angst-ridden people.
This was a very satisfying and enjoyable Reformed Rake tale, with a lovely main couple, a good cast of secondary characters and a decent plot. The historical detail was lacking in parts, but nice in others; I particularly loved the Gretna Green wedding. It's often talked about in romance, but rarely detailed. |
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