On one hand he can run circles around everyone he meets, and on the other hand, he struggles with a lot of the basic premises of human relationships, which I found strangely adorable and heartwarming. He’s smart, rapacious, charming, somewhat cold in affect, and ruthless. I found him to be a satisfyingly complex and dynamic character. However, the best part of this book for me was Tom. (There is a particularly heartwarming scene between West, Phoebe, and Phoebe’s son Justin). Half the fun of this book for me was seeing so many of the characters from previous books and how they had settled into their own HEAs. You’d be able to follow the plot without having read the other Ravenels books, but I don’t think it would be nearly as enjoyable. Gibson is a big player here, as are West and Devon Ravenel. I do think that the heavy inclusion of all the series main characters does make it harder for this book to stand on its own. I can afford hopes and dreams she hasn’t even thought of yet.” “I can afford Cassandra’s hopes and dreams,” Severin said promptly. “Furthermore, in the past two years, it’s been made known to me that women are intelligent, sensitive beings with hopes and dreams.” I couldn’t help but laugh at this exchange where Devon says:

And not just for the hero and heroine most of the major players of the past books of the series appear here and they all get to have zingers as they banter with each other. It’s all mostly quite light and fun.Īs in pretty much all Lisa Kleypas books, the dialogue is amazing: it’s witty, sharp, revealing, and insightful. There are plenty of accidental meetings, meddling relatives and secretaries, an adorable orphan child named Bazzle, one or more humorous lice infestations, and, of course, a Big Scandal. Most of the book describes their quite entertaining will-they-or-won’t-they quasi-courtship over the course of many months. Cassandra is charmed by Tom, but wants to marry for love, and Tom claims to be incapable of that. Tom is basically instantly smitten with Cassandra, but he’s also afraid of how intensely she makes him feel.

This wedding is where Tom and Cassandra meet. We open on the wedding of Pandora and Gabriel, who were the main couple from a previous book in the series, Devil in Spring. After all, I love to read about a Sad Historical Businessman brought low by love! Unfortunately, while I enjoyed this book, it also pained me because I felt like it could have been so much more. I have been hoping for a book about Tom since he was introduced in the first book in the Ravenels series. In Chasing Cassandra, the sixth book in the Ravenels series, railway magnate Tom Severin finally gets his turn to be the hero.

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