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By Lisa Kleypas
I was excited for this book; been wanting to read it for a long time but life got in the way; recently I was finally able to pick it up and start reading. There was something about having the hero as a Gypsy and a servant to the heroine’s family (even though they don’t consider him as such) that pulled me into this book thinking that I am going to enjoy reading it very much.
I have to say that it has been a long time that I have had a book by someone who isn’t on my favorite author list that kept me up all night wanting to read and when I do put it down to get some sleep I find myself watching up 10 minutes later to see what happens next.
I found Lisa Kleypas’s writing style and how she uses words together to be absolutely beautiful, without needing to be too much or too forced. I think that it was stood out for me the most in this book. I loved how she describes things, her characters and how deep she can get into their thoughts and souls.
Okay I’m going to just go ahead and say it: This book was hot!
Now that we have that out of the way; let’s go deeply into what I think about this book.
Warning there are spoilers:
I thought the first couple of chapters were great to build up the relationship between Win and Kev; I appreciate the author giving a good amount of chapters towards their childhood because it helped me as a reader understand why was it Win that Kev fell in love with and not the other sisters.
I’ll get this out of the way as well: I found Kev to be extremely attractive by how the author described him XD
Anyway; I have to say that I did enjoy Kev’s character; in the first couple of chapters yes he was a bit of a jerk but when I really thought about it he was being realistic in rejecting Win like he did given how important social status was during that period of history; there was no way that a woman could marry beneath her.
The scene where he almost killed Hollow upon meeting him was absolutely hilarious I literally laughed out loud when he ‘apologized’ to the doctor in his foreign language.
I found Win to be somewhat of a slut in the first few chapters (LOL XD); I’m sorry I just did by how she acted but by the time she came back from France, though she didn’t change much I did like that she won’t allow Kev to push her around if he wasn’t going to commit. I must have either overlooked it or just not remember it but I don’t really know why Win fell for Kev in the first place, other than the fact that he is hot.
Never the less I thought the both of them had great sizzling chemistry
One thing I would like to point out that I absolutely loved all of the ‘side characters’ if you can call them that. I thought that they all had a purpose in this story and not considered as side characters; but had just as equal of importance as the Win and Kev. I found that all of the characters worked dynamically with each other and with the story as a whole
Rating: 4.5/5