Devil in Winter by Lisa KleypasMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Devil in Winter, the third in the Wallflowers series by Lisa Kleypas, focuses on Evie Jenner, a horribly shy member of the group of four women who have dubbed themselves the Wallflowers and vowed to help each other find husbands. Evie’s temerity and stammer have made her chances at a match almost nonexistent, and her mother’s strict family refuses to allow her to see her ailing father. Desperate, Evie turns to the one person she knows to be equally as driven to change his circumstances, Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, possibly the most dissolute rake in London.
In this book, rather than focusing on social disparities as she has in the past two books in the series, Kleypas examines the relationship between two people of far different temperaments and expectations of life. Interestingly, the reader asks how two such different personalities could possibly make a relationship work. In what ways may they influence each other, and if they change for the other can they still stay true to themselves?
Evie and Sebastian are both endearing characters who you can’t help but root for. The book is fast-paced and introduces some interesting new side characters, while including some from the previous two books as well. It directly follows the events of the second book, It Happened One Autumn, and draws very heavily on many of those events and relationships.
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