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Peccati d'inverno by Lisa Kleypas

53 reviews

lighthearted
Strong character development: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Like Pride & Prejudice, with some of the humor and spice of Bridgerton

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hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A solid historical romance and I can see why it is one of Lisa Kleypas’ most beloved books. The characters are great and the romance was thoughtful and lovely 



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emotional

I liked this… I didn’t love it. Marriage of convenience and it was very sweet to see a proper rake falling in love for the first time. Also some great care taking scenes in this. 

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lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

4⭐️ | Evie is desperate to escape her toxic family and Sebastian needs a wife with money (since his father spent everything )💰 and low and behold they can help each other. 

📜 Historical Romance
💍 Marriage Of Convenience 
🌶️ 3/5

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Idk I feel like this was kinda a let down BUT this is the first book in the series I've read so maybe I just needed to read books 1 and 2 first. 

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Listen, I see why Sebastian is among the most beloved of HR heroes but he is actually psychotic. Very entertaining. 

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adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is a morally gray hero and I would say a very tense/dramatic historical romance. 

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dark emotional funny sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was another fun read, I really enjoy this series (and I’ve read them in an absolutely ridiculous order 😂). 

This one is about Evie and she comes off kind of quiet, a bit demure but she really goes for what she wants. She wants to be able to go take care of her father who’s dying but her uncles that she lives with won’t let her, they’re abusive and controlling. So she hatches a plan to ask notorious rake Sebastian to marry her so she can be free to do as she pleases. I honestly feel like he was just bored and curious so he agrees. They had an interesting relationship. She gained a bit more boldness and with her he finally found things to care about (slowly falling in love with her but also managing her father’s club). Lol this man, she asked him if he’d ever thought about getting a job and he was like why the devil would I do that and then proceeded to inspect every inch of her fathers club when he walked in the door and suddenly he had ideas and things.

For the most part I did enjoy his progression. He started out not caring about anything or anyone but developed feelings throughout the book and realized feelings are okay. He did do a couple questionable things at the start like trying to initiate sex while she was sleeping just after they were married (really Sebastian) to which she did end up reciprocating but she was asleep, just cause you’re married doesn’t mean you can take liberties especially when this is a marriage of convenience and then he called her a bitch when she wouldn’t sleep with him again and I was just like well that was rude and uncalled for. But like I said throughout the book he got better.

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