A review by tvislife
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas

fast-paced

3.5

An entertaining book, if not a particularly good one. It follows Evie, a stammering wallflower who is about to come into a bunch of money, and Sebastian, a total douchebag rake who needs cash. She proposes to him, and they get married. 

I mean, I read this book super quick and it was incredibly readable—I’ll give it that. But Sebastian was the worst. Reformed rake isn’t my favorite trope, but usually they’re just kinda womanizing guys who eventually fall super in love and settle down. This guy is a total dick—he literally kidnapped and tried to “marry” (ruin the reputation to force her to be with him) Evie’s good friend because he needed money. And then Evie is like “oh yes this is the perf guy to help me out”. Come on! No! Yes, he “changed”, and there were some hot scenes, and they fell in love, blah blah, but I just couldn’t really forget the fact that this dude is the worst.