She wants to know if there’s a single guy Pandora’s into, and Pandora’s like, “I mean, we’re part of the British upper-class, the same gene pool that birthed Benedict Cumberbatch, so…no.” Moreover, Pandora doesn’t particularly want a husband, since marriage would get in the way of her career as a budding board-game impresario. Lady Berwick, her chaperone, is all snippy that Pandora is wasting her Season and hasn’t caught a husband yet. (Although in fairness, I believe she’s meant to have undiagnosed ADHD.) Plus, she hates dancing, makes up words, and wants to invent board games. Cassandra is enjoying it, because she is the good twin, and Pandora is bored out of her mind, because she’s Not Like the Other Girls. Pandora and her twin sister Cassandra are at a ball in London, having a Season. The ~scandal~ happened two days ago, at a ball. Evie’s like, “What kind of scandal?” and Sebastian’s like, “Not important, we’re just here so that everyone who read Devil in Winter knows we’re still having sex.” Ten years from now, Lisa Kleypas is going to write Devil in Summer, and Sebastian and Evie will probably still be going at it as septuagenarians. Vincent) was caught in a compromising position with Pandora Ravenel, and scandal is afoot. Said adult son (“Gabriel”, who is now the new Lord St.
By now, they have grandkids, as well as an adult son. We open with a prologue, where after many moons we’re reunited with Evie and Sebastian, the protagonists of Devil in Winter. Everything else is jokes and paraphrasing. It was a good year for phones, apparently.įor the sake of clarity, all the actual prose from the book is in italics. Hayes was elected, the telephone was patented, and Ericsson was founded. It was a pretty wild year - Rutherford “Rutherfraud” B. We’re well out of the Regency now, and chilling in the mid-Victorian era (1876). The first two Ravenel books are basically back-to-back, but this one skips ahead a few years.
When we last left the Ravenels, Pandora was nineteen-going-on-twenty, and the comedy relief of the series. This book is the third in the Ravenels series, and the bajillionth in the Wallflowers-Hathaways-Ravenels ‘verse. I wanted to do this series in order, but I have predictions post-this book, and I wanted to get them out there before the next installment comes out and Lisa Kleypas grinds my dreams to dust.Īnyway, to the book.
They’re glorious, delightful fun, and I think they fit in with the rest of the dramatic, tropetastic stuff I like to recap here. So, given my love of telenovelas, I hope no one is particularly surprised by the fact that I also love romance novels. Dig this cover! I didn’t realize Victorians were cool with the tube top wedding dress look.
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