first reposted March 14, 2007
first posted March 30, 2006
DEVIL IN WINTER, by Lisa Kleypas. To escape her unscrupulous relatives, Evie Jenner proposes marriage to a notorious libertine.
Have I said lately how much I loved this book? No?
ohhh I must do that… sound like way more fun than cover letters. Have I said how much I HATE doing cover letters? And my resume, not on the disk I thought. sucks
But I did find a copy of the one before on a disk and a hard copy so it was easy enough to update.
With that I leave you with one of my fave scenes in DiW… takes place right after they tie the knot in GG.
St. Vincent began on the front fastenings of her gown. “Are we going to…” he repeated, and followed her gaze to the bed. “Good God, no.” His fingers moved rapidly along her bodice, freeing the row of buttons. “Delectable as you are, my love, I’m too tired. I’ve never said this in my entire life-but at the moment I would much rather sleep than fuck.”
Overwhelmed with relief, Evie let out an unsteady sigh. She was forced to clutch at him for balance as he pushed the loosened gown down over her hips. “I don’t like that word,” she said in a muffled voice.
“Well, you had better get used to it,” came his caustic reply. “That word is said frequently at your father’s club. God knows how you managed to escape hearing it before.”
“I did,” she said indignantly, stepping out of the discarded gown. “I just didn’t know what it meant until now.”
St. Vincent bent to untie her shoes, his broad shoulders quivering. A curious gasping, choking noise came from him. At first Evie wondered anxiously if he had suddenly been taken ill, and then she realized that he was laughing. It was the first genuine laughter she had ever heard from him, and she had no idea what he found so funny. Standing over him in her chemise and drawers, she crossed her arms over her front and frowned.
Still snorting with quiet amusement, St. Vincent removed her shoes one at a time, tossing them aside. Her stockings were rolled down her legs with swift efficiency. “Take your bath, pet,” he finally managed to say. “You’re safe from me tonight. I may look, but I won’t touch. Go on.”
Really I have no clue why but this just makes me giggle every time I read it. I love the dialog between Sebastian and Evie. And I love how matter of fact he is about everything. Just so in your face and unapologetic.
le sigh…
August 1….
Scandal in Spring not sure if I want this to come out or not… I mean who knows when we will get the next Kleypas historical. So I shall not start counting down yet 😉
UPDATED October 5th:
Well I guess that wasn’t that long of a wait as Lisa Kleypas’s next historical was published October 2nd, 2007. Yep that would be last Tuesday *g*.
Have you picked up your copy of Mine Till Midnight yet? If not, you must sez I! If you don’t do it for Cam do it for Sebastian. Cuz you know… he rocks.
And you can do it with no worry of WHEN there will be another Kleypas historical. Really and true. If you think about it the panic, maybe that was just me, that Lisa would leave us for that genre called womens fiction and forget all about us… go mainstream and toss aside romance… pretend like we never ever were there… uh sorry… where was I? Oh yes that panic was jumping the gun just a touch.
Lisa Kleypas has yet to go a year without a historical novel. So where it would be nifty fun to have TWO in a year, I suppose we can share her with the contemporary crowd – although I wouldn’t cry over the loss of the 1st person thing…
From what I hear Blue-Eyed Devil is beyond grand and I will have a summary of her NEXT historical later in the day. So go forth and read Mine Till Midnight with no worries. Kleypas has a few historical tricks left up her sleeves.
I read Westcliff and Whatsherface’s story today, the Autumn one. Loved it. Wasn’t Sebastian a bad bugger?
DIW was due from Amazon today, unfortunately I was out when the postman came. Godammit!
Now I’ll have to wait until Monday to go and fetch it from the post office!
Sebastian was delightfully bad. And I am so sorry you have to wait! I can’t wait to hear what you think. People seem to love it or hate it.
So do post after you read!
that’s it! I’m fed up with waiting for the stocks to arrive in local stores. Off to Amazon to order right away … and I’m still waiting for my last order to arrive .:(((
Have mercy on an impatient fan, ladies.
Hey Sybil . . . I used the F word! Happy now? Heh heh.
Ahh…I liked this whole series. It was what started me reading Kleypas. And then Kristie got after me to read Derek’s story. So I’m now hooked.
Nope! I so can’t count that for my button.
One day it shall be mine, oh yes it shall be :).
I can’t remember which book was my first nicole but I do know I picked up DoY because of Kristie. I think I read Suddenly You first. But hell if I can remember.
Suddenly You was my first Kleypas. Loved loved loved it! Lurved it, in fact. And have read all of the other Wallflower entries. It was also gratifying to discover that Lisa Kleypas is a fellow Hill Country denizen.
Gotta love the bad boys! You just want to gobble them up (yes, I mean like that! 🙂 ).
Devil in Winter was my first Kleypas. Just loved it and then merrily went romping through her backlist. So glad she’s continuing to write Historicals!
The majority of my books are Kleypas historicals. She is honestly the best in the historical romance genre.
I just hope she doesn’t go the way of some historical romance suthors *cough Julie Garwood* and changes to contemporary romance.
I adore Sebastian – bad boys are totally my thang. Devil in Winter should be read at least twice, then again just to savor it. 🙂
I’ve read all of her Avon books. Loved everyone of them.
I freaking LOVED Devil In Winter. I think it’s my favorite of her books.
I have loved this whole series. I have to buy Mine Till Midnight. The cover is beautiful.
I loved Devil in Winter too! St Vincent and Evie had hot scenes!!barzepo
After many, many, many rereading this is still one of my favorite scenes in the book… just thought I would share *g*