LADY SOPHIA'S LOVER (Bow Street Runners #2) by Lisa Kleypas
Mass Market Paperback, 377 pages
Published
June 4th 2002
by Avon BooksGenre: historical romance novel
Rating: 5 stars
London, England 1830. Sophia Sidney’s plans of revenge against the
magistrate (Sir Ross Cannon) who sent her younger brother to jail (where he
supposedly died during an outbreak of cholera) will fall apart when she realizes
she can’t help falling in love with him. She will convince Ross to hire her as
a secretary at his special police force office (the Bow Street Runners), with
the intention of stealing documents and any piece of information that may
compromise him, his operations and his staff. But after better getting
acquainted with him, Sophia will realize that not only Sir Cannon is a passionate
and lovable man, but also that he is an extremely honorable and irreproachable
magistrate and that he wasn’t responsible for her brother’s unjust imprisonment
and death.
Beyond any doubt LSL is the most
complete and most riveting installment of The Bow Street Runners Series. The plot is probably one of the most
intriguing ever written by LK: the unexpected mind-blowing twist in the final chapters (I
really didn’t see it coming) is just one of the many highlights of this
scorching HRN. LK has a flair for drawing you into her plots from the start
with likable and believable characters. Ross, The Monk of Bow Street, is one of
my favorite Kleypas’ male heroes, a solid alpha male clad in an armor of
self-discipline and hard work, resolute and ferocious in his mission to pursue
justice, passionless and taciturn. Yet a volcanic passion boils under that
strong surface of steel and those piercing gray eyes: it will take a
strong and endearing feminine character
like Sophia to peel those layers of
stoicism and discipline and to reveal the caring, loving, passionate and
creative lover/husband.
Certain things never change
throughout the career of a talented
writer: LK’s trademarks define each page of her novel, delivering a sizzling
story of revenge, love and forgiveness with her usual stylish prose,
three-dimensional characterization, emotional depths and a palpable (probably
some of the most steamy love scenes you will ever read in a HRN) romantic/sexual
chemistry.
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