Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas | Review

Publisher: Avon
Release Date: February 19, 2019 (already out!)
Source of my copy: publisher
Series: The Ravenels #5/standalone
My Rating:

Synopsis
Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. And then he introduces himself...as none other than West Ravenel.

West is a man with a tarnished past. No apologies, no excuses. However, from the moment he meets Phoebe, West is consumed by irresistible desire...not to mention the bitter awareness that a woman like her is far out of his reach. What West doesn't bargain on is that Phoebe is no straitlaced aristocratic lady. She's the daughter of a strong-willed wallflower who long ago eloped with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent—the most devilishly wicked rake in England.

Before long, Phoebe sets out to seduce the man who has awakened her fiery nature and shown her unimaginable pleasure. Will their overwhelming passion be enough to overcome the obstacles of the past?

Only the devil's daughter knows...

As soon as I started reading Devil's Daughter, I was captured and it's all thanks to Lisa Kleypas's deft hand. Reading Devil's Daughter was like eating the most delectable, smooth chocolate and it's so very good.

I've only read one other book in the Ravenel series (Hello Stranger--my review), and even though I have read the Wallflowers series it's probably been ten years since so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. But, I remember loving Evie and Sebastian's romance (they are my favorite couple in the series) and especially swooning over Sebastian, so seeing them again as loving parents and doting grandparents was wonderful! My favorite parts were all the ones with Sebastian in them.

But, our main couple in Devil's Daughter is Sebastian's widowed daughter, Phoebe, Lady Clare, and Weston Ravenel, reformed-bad-boy-turned-estate-manager. I liked Phoebe and West right away as soon as they appeared on the page. I liked learning about them, their background, their interactions with other characters, but when it came to their romance it was good and fine while I was reading it, but there wasn't anything particularly special about it. I may have been a little too overhyped from all the gushing about this book I saw on Instagram and Goodreads so I was expecting something more that I didn't quite get, but what I did get I still very much enjoyed.

Besides Sebastian, my other favorite was Justin, Phoebe's older son. That little man charmed me as soon as he open his mouth and all the cute, precious things came out. All the scenes with Justin and West made my heart happy. It was also fun learning a bit about managing an estate and farming during the Victorian times.

If you're a fan of the Wallflowers series, this is the book to catch up with everyone, and especially with Sebastian and Evie. But, overall, Devil's Daughter was an entertaining read! No one can write a historical romance like Lisa Kleypas, and that was evident here. Recommended for a riveting weekend read!

“If you have any misguided thoughts about taking me into your bed, you would find it a vastly mediocre experience. I’d be on you like a crazed rabbit, and half a minute later the whole thing would be over. I used to be a proficient lover, but now I’m a burnt-out libertine whose only remaining pleasure is breakfast food. Speaking of which—”

Phoebe reached for him, brought herself up hard against him, and interrupted him with her mouth. West flinched as if scalded and held very still in the manner of a man trying to withstand torture. Undeterred, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him as passionately as she could, touching her tongue to his stiff lips. The feel and taste of him was exhilarating. Suddenly he responded with a primitive grunt and his mouth clamped on hers, wringing sensation from her with demanding pressure. Forcing her lips apart, he searched her with his tongue the way she remembered, and it felt so good, she thought she might faint. A whimper rose from her throat, and he licked and bit gently at the sound and sealed their mouths together in a deep, insatiable kiss that involved his lips, breath, hands, body, soul.

Whatever it might be like to go to bed with this man . . . it would be anything but mediocre.

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About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She is a RITA award winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction. Her novels are published in fourteen different languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington State with her husband Gregory and their two children.

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