If I'm being perfectly honest with myself, I've done a shamefully poor job of addressing my love for Cat Sebastian 's books around these parts. I've certainly noted each time her beautiful stories have appeared on my end-of-the-year best of lists, see: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes , basically every book in The Cabots series , and of course We Could Be So Good . And the pull is, quite simply, this: nobody is as kind and gentle with their characters and with their hearts than Cat Sebastian. Nobody. I haven't always been one for the gentler stories, but I cannot overstate the absolute gift it is sinking into one of Sebastian's exquisitely crafted historicals knowing that I get to spend the next however many pages watching two idiots pine and deny that feelings exist and just take care of each other as they fall in love. I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Not this one or any other. Only two things in the world people count b...
I really like the cover!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I like the groove they've got going on with all three of her covers.
ReplyDeleteBlue butterflys seem to be an in-thing for covers--this is the third I've seen for 2008-2009...
ReplyDeleteStrange.
I read Ink Exchange recently, and enjoyed it much more than I thought I was going to, so now I'm looking forward to this one!
Interesting how there seem to be cover trends like that.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you enjoyed INK EXCHANGE, Charlotte. I really did as well. It was so different from WICKED LOVELY that I'm interested to see what kind of tone the third installment takes.