Over the course of more than 30 historical romance novels, Lisa Kleypas has created a vibrant world for her characters–one filled with beautiful estates, infamous gaming hells, even a department store! Learn a little more about her world in the progressive online board game “LisaLand,” inspired by DEVIL IN SPRING heroine–and board game creator–Pandora Ravenel, and her real-life counterpart Lizzie Magie.
Head to Avon Romance’s LisaLand to roll the dice and enter a part of Lisa Kleypas’s world! The roll of the dice will take you to one of four websites. The sites will have Kleypas “flip cards,” which hold the answers to a Kleypas quiz! The dice could also take you to one of two prize pages, where you can enter to win either a gift card or the entire Ravenel series! For more on Lisa’s latest novel, DEVIL IN SPRING, visit Avon Romance. To find out more about the amazing Lizzie Magie, check out her profile in The New York Times.
Hah fun. Btw absolutely DYING to discuss this book with everyone I’ve been refreshing constantly for the review here. xD *vibrates into the stratosphere*
This was fun! I loved the book to itty bitty pieces even while having a few issues with it. Hoping for more Ravenel/ Wallflower pairings in the future books.
Seriously one of the best I’ve ever read and I don’t usually go for the “ditzy but brilliant” heroine but it worked in this story. Gabriel is a worthy successor to his father as one of the all time great romance hero/
I find this a bit ironic because in DEVIL IN SPRING (I’m 278 pages in) while we’re often told Pandora is producing a board game, we get no details about the game itself. Is it for adults? Kids? Families? Does it use dice? Cards? Is it based on the ton (which Pandora can’t stand) or something else? All we know is that Mr. Winterborne has so much faith in it he’s pre-ordered 500 copies, and Pandora knows all about the glue needed to (literally) put together a board game. Swell.
I’m on page 83 and I keep assuming that at any minute they’ll explain the board game – but no? Surely there must be other romance readers who are also gamers who want to know about PAndora’s board game!
Oh my gosh I neeeeeeed to talk to about Devil in Spring. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for this book and it was… not bad? Maybe I was just so hyped that it could never live up to my expectations but it just seemed like it was missing something. I adored seeing Sebastian and Evie. I liked Pandora and Gabriel both well enough but I guess I just didn’t see the romance. I needed more pathos and less sex. I know that makes me sound like a prude, but I’m really not. I’ve been wondering if the market is pushing for more sex in non-erotica novels because I’ve read a few books recently by authors that I like where sexual attraction and bedroom fun times stood in for relationship development. Sure, I get it, the hero is the sexiest man ever to walk the pages but I need more to buy into an actual relationship than great sex. For the life of me I just didn’t get why Pandora and Gabriel were in love, they’d known each other for like 5 minutes when he was all “I don’t want to marry but nobody else can have her” and that’s such a pet peeve of mine, nobody goes to bat for somebody who they don’t know who gives them pants tingles. That’s a horrible basis for a marriage. I’m very happily married and I still get pants tingles for random grocery store checkers, it’s a thing that happens to humans but most of us know that it’s pretty meaningless.
I had mixed feelings about Devil in Spring. I didn’t like the beginning at all. Getting stuck in a settee was kind of ludicrous and there’s so much insta-lust on Gabriel’s side that it felt forced. But then I loved the part of the book set at Heron’s Point. Even though it’s only a week, I thought the romance was finally given a chance to develop here. Then…they’re married and happy around the 65% point and there’s a weird suspense plot tacked on to the end that I didn’t care for. HOWEVER…seeing Evie and Sebastian again made me absolutely GIDDY. God, I love them!
Who are the next couples??? Ideally, in my mind:
Cassandra and West (I LOVE HIM, Y’ALL) — no idea how plausible this is, but I see so much potential with this one
Garrett and Ransom — I think this is hinted at with some lingering glances on her part?
Phoebe and ?? — I actually think she may get the next book, hmmm
Am I the only one who clicked the link to play the game, and can’t get the blasted dice to work? All they do is take me to another webpage that tells me to go back to the first webpage. Anyone else? Bueller? Anyone?
I agree there should have been more about the game. I went back to Marrying Winterbourne and the game is described in that book in a little more detail.
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Hah fun. Btw absolutely DYING to discuss this book with everyone I’ve been refreshing constantly for the review here. xD *vibrates into the stratosphere*
This was fun! I loved the book to itty bitty pieces even while having a few issues with it. Hoping for more Ravenel/ Wallflower pairings in the future books.
Seriously one of the best I’ve ever read and I don’t usually go for the “ditzy but brilliant” heroine but it worked in this story. Gabriel is a worthy successor to his father as one of the all time great romance hero/
I find this a bit ironic because in DEVIL IN SPRING (I’m 278 pages in) while we’re often told Pandora is producing a board game, we get no details about the game itself. Is it for adults? Kids? Families? Does it use dice? Cards? Is it based on the ton (which Pandora can’t stand) or something else? All we know is that Mr. Winterborne has so much faith in it he’s pre-ordered 500 copies, and Pandora knows all about the glue needed to (literally) put together a board game. Swell.
I’m on page 83 and I keep assuming that at any minute they’ll explain the board game – but no? Surely there must be other romance readers who are also gamers who want to know about PAndora’s board game!
They do eventually explain the board game.
Sorry qqemokitty but they never explain the board game in DIS. They reveal the title at the end, but that’s it. (And I was less than thrilled with DIS; review up at http://thearmchaircritic.blogspot.com/2017/02/devil-in-spring-by-lisa-kleypas.html )
I barely made it through Devil in Spring. It took 2 days to finish it. The only characters that I cared about were Sebastian, Evie and Garrett.
Oh my gosh I neeeeeeed to talk to about Devil in Spring. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for this book and it was… not bad? Maybe I was just so hyped that it could never live up to my expectations but it just seemed like it was missing something. I adored seeing Sebastian and Evie. I liked Pandora and Gabriel both well enough but I guess I just didn’t see the romance. I needed more pathos and less sex. I know that makes me sound like a prude, but I’m really not. I’ve been wondering if the market is pushing for more sex in non-erotica novels because I’ve read a few books recently by authors that I like where sexual attraction and bedroom fun times stood in for relationship development. Sure, I get it, the hero is the sexiest man ever to walk the pages but I need more to buy into an actual relationship than great sex. For the life of me I just didn’t get why Pandora and Gabriel were in love, they’d known each other for like 5 minutes when he was all “I don’t want to marry but nobody else can have her” and that’s such a pet peeve of mine, nobody goes to bat for somebody who they don’t know who gives them pants tingles. That’s a horrible basis for a marriage. I’m very happily married and I still get pants tingles for random grocery store checkers, it’s a thing that happens to humans but most of us know that it’s pretty meaningless.
I had mixed feelings about Devil in Spring. I didn’t like the beginning at all. Getting stuck in a settee was kind of ludicrous and there’s so much insta-lust on Gabriel’s side that it felt forced. But then I loved the part of the book set at Heron’s Point. Even though it’s only a week, I thought the romance was finally given a chance to develop here. Then…they’re married and happy around the 65% point and there’s a weird suspense plot tacked on to the end that I didn’t care for. HOWEVER…seeing Evie and Sebastian again made me absolutely GIDDY. God, I love them!
Who are the next couples??? Ideally, in my mind:
Cassandra and West (I LOVE HIM, Y’ALL) — no idea how plausible this is, but I see so much potential with this one
Garrett and Ransom — I think this is hinted at with some lingering glances on her part?
Phoebe and ?? — I actually think she may get the next book, hmmm
@Amanda but aren’t West and Cassandra cousins? I mean, in my country that’s no problem at all, but I’m not quite shure about Victorian England.
Am I the only one who clicked the link to play the game, and can’t get the blasted dice to work? All they do is take me to another webpage that tells me to go back to the first webpage. Anyone else? Bueller? Anyone?
@Amanada I remember wanting a Tom Severin book but I need to reread the first 2 books to figure out why!
I agree there should have been more about the game. I went back to Marrying Winterbourne and the game is described in that book in a little more detail.