Willy W. reviewed on 4/14/2011 + 503 more book reviews

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***Happy sigh****
Lisa Kleypas does it again with book two in the Travis series. I liked Blue-Eyed Devil much more than Sugar Daddy although I think Liberty was a better character than Haven. Blue-Eyed Devil gets into the meat of the story much more quickly and the pacing worked better for me than Sugar Daddy.

Kleypas has an amazing ability to slowly build believable love and passion between her characters. She always includes such fine detail about their lives, their background, their homes, jobs, and cities where they live. It isn't that boring filler that seems to be used by so many authors, it is interesting, relevant information. The people come alive in her books.

Blue-Eyed devil has a heroine who is a bit more of a victim than I'm accustomed to with Kleypas, that is probably the biggest downside to the book. But the character does gain a spine eventually and we're treated to Hardy who is a wonderful character unto himself. There are the well-written requisite love scenes in this book, with reasonable heat.

Kleypas uses a different writing style in her contemporary books, where the story is written first person so you don't get to know the other characters as intimately as you do in her historicals. I think it works - in a way it makes the hero seem that much more heroic. But I don't think we get to know Hardy as much as you'd like, especially because he was such an enigma in Sugar Daddy.

Another winner from my favorite author.
4.5 stars.

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