(Most notably Cam Rohan is introduced as a secondary character in Devil in Winter of the Wallflowers series and then becomes a protagonist in Mine Till Midnight of the Hathaways series. Some are more linked than others, but it is not at all unusual to see some character mention or crossover from series to series. Whether you enjoy what she’s writing or not, she is good at what she does.īeyond that, her series are (mostly) built on an interconnected Victorian world. What the reader can also expect is sweeping romance and dramatic tension because she’s also got solid plotting chops. There’s not a huge mystery as to how her characterizations will be, what the setting will evoke, and how much and what kind of sex we’ll be reading.
Her storytelling doesn’t always follow the exact same formula, so it doesn’t get boring like you’re reading the same book over and over (which, I’ll admit, has its own appeal sometimes). Lisa Kleypas has a huge backlist and is a very consistent writer. Heroine be like You get what you get, and you don’t get upset
Give me a morality chain romance in which the only reason protagonist 1 has any morals at all is because protagonist 2 told him to, and I will eat that up. I am not at all shy about acknowledging that I like emotionally constipated, traditionally powerful heroes and anti-heroes. Certain characterizations push my buttons, and that’s just how that goes So let’s examine the LK fandom as an allegory for any romance fandom. Conversely, there are authors I totally enjoy reading who get reviews from other readers critical much like I was in that last sentence. There are authors that I personally think do not understand, like, words, but they’ve got 50,000 squeeing 5-star reviews on your friendly neighborhood Goodreads. Which, honestly, I think could translate to just about any fandom I have encountered in Romancelandia. What is the deal with the LK fandom? Are her heroes* really that great? Vincent – again – Holly asked me (paraphrasing for the sake of brevity),
So when I finished Kleypas’s new release, Devil in Disguise, and I was cooing over Sebastian Challon, Duke of Kingston and formerly of courtesy title St. You might recall that we duelled about Marrying Winterbourne, and even before that she told me that Cold-Hearted Stranger was meh (which I generally agree with, because whiney heroines are not my jam). Even when I was not awaiting each next release with bated breath and only read her books casually as I came across one, I knew they were reliably satisfying.Įnter Holly, for whom Lisa Kleypas just does not work. I, like many, many romance readers, very much enjoy a Lisa Kleypas novel.
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