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Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas
4.0

Beatrix is our heroine and she’s sweet and fun, an animal lover, adventurous.
Our hero is Christopher, who is fighting in a war during the beginning of the story. Christopher writes to Prudence, and Beatrix writes in her place.

The exchange of letters was so wonderful. Just lovely to see two people share bits and pieces of themselves, slowly getting deeper entwined. I felt the love forming in those letters. Totally loved that part.

After that, the story moseyed along slowly. Christopher returns and has serious issues from the war. He begins to realize the letters have not come from Prudence.

Their story was enjoyable. And had some sweet parts. But I guess I just wanted more...of something. It wasn’t steam. I think it was more the feels. This book didn’t make me feel much. I just didn’t come to love the characters as much as others. I found parts rather boring. I did like when he professed his love for her, but at the same time it happened so early in the book (not that I minded that specifically) but the way it was done, there just wasn’t much story after that. Even though there were pages and pages left. A few PTSD issues that kind of resolved out of nowhere.

However, I think most people would really enjoy this story. There’s nothing really wrong with it.

I gave 3.5 stars rounded to 🌟🌟🌟🌟