Willy W. reviewed on 1/10/2011 + 503 more book reviews

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Having read this book now three times, I must modify my original review. Kleypas is a great writer. This is a departure from her typical historical-romance books and also written in the first person. Usually we see the perspectives of both hero and heroine but using first person, we are involved in only one character's life.

Maybe we spent too much time on Liberty's youth - it began to feel a bit more Danielle Steel than Lisa Kleypas. I liked Liberty's story with Hardy and you certainly felt sorry for the both of them. But I kept wishing she'd move things along. Yet in my re-reads, I really enjoy the backstory more each time and see so much more depth to Kleypas as a writer than ever before in her historical fiction.

That said, later in the book, as we got to know Churchill and then Gage, I think the pacing got better and you were wondering until the very end whom Liberty would wind up with.

Honestly some of the best parts of the book are the descriptions of food. Kleypas always gives great attention to the sights and smells and sounds around the characters, but she's taken it to a new level with her food porn. Who knew that something as simple as chicken and dumplings could read like foreplay?

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