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Devil in Spring

I have been on a bit of a historical romance kick. Ok, more like a Lisa Kleypas kick. In the past week I have read 8 of her books. This all started because I saw Devil in Spring on the shelf of new reads at the library. This book was actually released in February, so I am a bit behind. Reading this book, I remembered how much I love the stories and characters that Kleypas creates. I first fell in love with her writing with the Friday Harbor series which actually aren't historical. Most of her other books however are historical romance so she helped me dive right in to this genre.

Devil in Spring is the third book in the Ravenels series. I started with this one and went back and read one and two. I think they can easily be read out of order but I did have a strong temptation to re-read the third book after I had a better understanding of all of the characters. One thing that I really loved with this series were the forward thinking characters for the time period. The third story follows Pandora who has no interest in ever being married. She would rather build her own board game empire. This changes a bit  however when a scandal is created between her and Gabriel.

Lisa Kleypas does such a wonderful job of creating characters. I love the families that she creates and how the stories often continue for each of the characters throughout the series. It is honestly very hard to stop with just one of her stories. I cannot wait for the fourth book in this series to come out next year!


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