APRIL 2019 - AudioFile
The listener is immediately immersed in this historical romance featuring Phoebe, Lady Clare, and West Ravenel. Phoebe is a widow who travels to a family wedding, where she meets West, a reformed scoundrel who tormented her late husband when they were boys at school. Narrator Mary Jane Wells’s rich voice lends itself to the story. West has matured and developed a wonderful sense of humor, and Wells has the listener warming up to him. Phoebe has two young sons whom Wells endows with appropriately youthful voices. Phoebe is the daughter of Evie and Lord St. Vincent, characters from Kleypas’s Wallflower series. While listeners need not to be familiar with that series, those who are will enjoy this visit with old friends. S.B. 2020 Audies Winner © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
The rare author who can make you laugh and cry—on the same page.” — Julia Quinn
“...a delightfully smart and sensual historical romance...” — NPR
“Long-time fans of RITA Award-winning Kleypas will relish the cameo appearances of so many of her beloved characters, while readers new and returning alike will revel in her stylish prose, sharp wit, and swoon-worthy sensuality...” — Booklist (starred review)
“...this novel is a work of art. Kleypas’ prose is intoxicatingly gorgeous, as lush and romantic as the circumstances of her stories. It’s often said that you can never go wrong with a Lisa Kleypas book, and Devil’s Daughter does much to maintain that aphorism.” — Entertainment Weekly
“...Kleypas (Hello Stranger, 2018, etc.) is at the top of her game.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Devil’s Daughter is a must read.” — BookPage
“A love story to savor. Another winner in Kleypas’ Ravenels series, with elegant prose, a fascinating heroine, and a Victorian London constructed with compelling historical detail.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Kleypas will continue to win readers’ hearts in book four of the Ravenels [...] Kleypas makes you feel every intense moment; each heated kiss and all the thrilling action as you race to the perfect ending. There is nothing quite like a Kleypas romance.” — RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
“Kleypas’s fans will appreciate the high action and scintillating twists and trysts.” — Publishers Weekly
RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
Kleypas will continue to win readers’ hearts in book four of the Ravenels [...] Kleypas makes you feel every intense moment; each heated kiss and all the thrilling action as you race to the perfect ending. There is nothing quite like a Kleypas romance.
Julia Quinn
The rare author who can make you laugh and cry—on the same page.
Booklist (starred review)
Long-time fans of RITA Award-winning Kleypas will relish the cameo appearances of so many of her beloved characters, while readers new and returning alike will revel in her stylish prose, sharp wit, and swoon-worthy sensuality...
BookPage
Devil’s Daughter is a must read.
NPR
...a delightfully smart and sensual historical romance...
Entertainment Weekly
...this novel is a work of art. Kleypas’ prose is intoxicatingly gorgeous, as lush and romantic as the circumstances of her stories. It’s often said that you can never go wrong with a Lisa Kleypas book, and Devil’s Daughter does much to maintain that aphorism.
APRIL 2019 - AudioFile
The listener is immediately immersed in this historical romance featuring Phoebe, Lady Clare, and West Ravenel. Phoebe is a widow who travels to a family wedding, where she meets West, a reformed scoundrel who tormented her late husband when they were boys at school. Narrator Mary Jane Wells’s rich voice lends itself to the story. West has matured and developed a wonderful sense of humor, and Wells has the listener warming up to him. Phoebe has two young sons whom Wells endows with appropriately youthful voices. Phoebe is the daughter of Evie and Lord St. Vincent, characters from Kleypas’s Wallflower series. While listeners need not to be familiar with that series, those who are will enjoy this visit with old friends. S.B. 2020 Audies Winner © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
Kirkus Reviews
2019-01-21
The fifth in Kleypas' popular Ravenels series puts a young flame-haired widow in the path of her late husband's tormenter. But neither is what they seem.
When Phoebe, Lady Clare, married her chronically ill childhood sweetheart, Henry, she vowed to take care of him. Eventually, Henry succumbed to his wasting disease, leaving her to raise two young sons. While managing her grief and supporting her children, Phoebe is content to allow Henry's cousin, Edward Larson, to run the Clare estate in Essex. But a trip to her younger brother's wedding at the sprawling Eversby Priory introduces Phoebe to estate manager Weston Ravenel, who sparks her interest in new farming technologies, and in his tall, brawny physique and piercing dark blue eyes. Alas, West had tormented sickly Henry in boarding school, earning him Phoebe's intense dislike. West is something unusual in the genre: a self-reformed rake. When carousing and pleasure-seeking lost their charm, he left London and began a new life of honest hard work on his brother's estate. Phoebe, the daughter of a duke and the wealthy mother of the heir to a viscountcy, is out of his league. Phoebe and West are seated together at a lavish wedding dinner, an exquisite, transporting scene of small intimacies spanning two chapters in which Kleypas (Hello Stranger, 2018, etc.) is at the top of her game. Unlike Henry, West is both "the storm and the shelter"; he "kissed like a man who had lived too fast, learned too late, and had finally found the thing he wanted." Readers will enjoy revisiting beloved characters from both the Wallflowers series and from earlier installments of the Ravenels, although West's protestations of low worth ring hollow when surrounded by happily married friends and relatives with similarly debauched pasts.
A widow emerges from mourning with the help of a reformed rake in a truly romantic tale that stands well on its own.
