![]() ![]() What we're told: she's the businesswoman of the trio of sisters. I knew going in that the historical bits were going to be some of the thinnest wallpaper ever seen in Romancelandia. 1 duke, 1 marquess and 1 count marrying 3 French milliners? It's so blatantly implausible that I can't even hold that against Vixen in Velvet and its predecessors. ![]() Let's get one thing out of the way first: the ridiculous premise of this series. ![]() There's no emotional pay-off for the reader and the stories and characters aren't interesting enough to carry the books. Her recent books (and this one in particular) have been 100% levity with 0 stakes. Her older books used to have some seriousness mixed with the humor and it gave them depth. She's always striven to write in what I call a "Heyer style" and that doesn't pay off anymore. I have several Loretta Chase books on my "Favorites" bookshelf but I haven't been too happy with her recent work. ![]()
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