Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
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lightreadsMarrying Winterborne
4/5. Historical het. He is a wealthy Welsh department store owner; she is a shy noblewoman with a secret. Their engagement was previously broken in the B-plot of a prior book, but she’s not having it.
I bounced off Kleypas before, but Fated Mates told me to read this, and once in a blue moon I do what I’m told. It’s a lovely, sexy, sharply-observed romp about class and heredity and what it feels like to be wanted after being so very unwanted for a long time. It even made me almost appreciate a plotline about secret parentage, which is generally a huge turnoff (the period-appropriate attitudes about how character and personhood are determined by “breeding” are just so blech, and I find it suspicious how many books really want to spend a lot of time wallowing in all that). But this version is compassionate but also critical, and it worked for me.
But let’s be real, the appeal of this book for romance readers is going to be that he loves her so deeply and so devotedly, and by God nothing is going to stop him. The conflict here isn’t will they or won’t they but will she value herself enough to believe in him.
4/5. Historical het. He is a wealthy Welsh department store owner; she is a shy noblewoman with a secret. Their engagement was previously broken in the B-plot of a prior book, but she’s not having it.
I bounced off Kleypas before, but Fated Mates told me to read this, and once in a blue moon I do what I’m told. It’s a lovely, sexy, sharply-observed romp about class and heredity and what it feels like to be wanted after being so very unwanted for a long time. It even made me almost appreciate a plotline about secret parentage, which is generally a huge turnoff (the period-appropriate attitudes about how character and personhood are determined by “breeding” are just so blech, and I find it suspicious how many books really want to spend a lot of time wallowing in all that). But this version is compassionate but also critical, and it worked for me.
But let’s be real, the appeal of this book for romance readers is going to be that he loves her so deeply and so devotedly, and by God nothing is going to stop him. The conflict here isn’t will they or won’t they but will she value herself enough to believe in him.