Tempt Me at Twilight

Poppy Hathaway is the smartest Kleypas heroine yet, even more so than Daisy Bowman, so she's my new fave. She might also be the funniest, although I can see her younger sister Beatrix swooping in for a win in The Hathaways, #5. So I loved this one, with a hero is sort of “reformed rake” but not as stereotypically so as St. Vincent (not that I don't also love St. Vincent), and some of Kleypas' best embedded commentary on patriarchy and what it really means to respect someone's autonomy.

I was all in on this one until the last 50 or so pages, when Harry gets knocked out and kidnapped by a character who never appears on the page at all and is just mentioned in passing because reasons? I also thought Catherine's big reveal should've happened a lot earlier, and also seriously, everyone in these books is related to each other, even the non-Hathaways. I still love this family dynamic that Kleypas is so good at writing, and I also love a good marriage of convenience/enemies-to-lovers, so I ended up about 75% in on this, which is about good for three stars.

AAAH BRAZIL...
I did it again.
Read everything in one day straight. And, of course, I loved it.
But, God. Three books, two gorgeous gypsies, a handsome Harry and my only thought still LEO.

A estória do hotel - embora se colocarmos no papel a conta não faz o menor sentido, mas tudo bem, é ficção - lembrou-me muito um a Bela e a Fera. Os funcionários tentando ajudar o bom mas explosivo chefe; seu amor incondicional por rosas; a “bela” que se aproxima destes mesmos funcionários, é inteligente e não se adapta a sociedade porque gosta de ler e fala muito com opniões fortes.

E, gostamos quando não se segue a expectativa, não é mesmo?
E engraçadíssimo.

Não quero que a série acabe mas quero continuar.