Among the wedding guests is self-made man, railroad magnate, engineering genius, like Mensa-level if Mensa was around in 1876, Tom Severin. Sundry couples from previous five books people the opening, but I didn’t feel late to the party. Vincent (who, I realized with delight, is son to Sebastian and Evangeline of The Devil In Winter!) and Lady Pandora’s, the eponymous Cassandra’s twin. Instead, I found a deeper, funnier, more relaxed Kleypas, a narrative richer in humour and characterization and less inclined to melodrama.Ĭhasing Cassandra opens with a wedding and ends with domestic contentment: the opening wedding being Gabriel, Lord St. I thought I’d encounter the usual Kleypas fare, overprotective hero, heroine in peril, intense love scenes … and, Chasing Cassandra has some of that, but they’re not what stands out. (On the other hand, there were those Kleypas woo-woo books I’d rather forget.) Kleypas went the way of contemporary romance, I started reading a variety of new, interesting romance writers and somehow, our paths never again converged until the pandemic saw a certain publisher largesse and I scored an e-galley of Chasing Cassandra. Derek Craven remains one of my favourite heroes and Devil In Winter, one of my favourite romances. Lisa Kleypas’s romances were some of the first I ever read upon returning to the genre after 30 years away.
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