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Chasing Cassandra: Library Edition: The Ravenels Audio CD – CD, 18 February 2020

by Lisa Kleypas (Author), Mary Jane Wells (Narrator)

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Everything has a price . . .

Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anythingor anyoneis his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wifeand from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, hes determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for lovethe one thing he cant give.

Everything except her . . .

Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra has ever met, even if his heart is frozen. But she has no interest in living in the fast-paced world of a ruthless man who always plays to win.

When a newfound enemy nearly destroys Cassandras reputation, Severin seizes the opportunity hes been waiting for. As always, he gets what he wantsor does he? Theres one lesson Tom Severin has yet to learn from his new bride:

Never underestimate a Ravenel.

The chase for Cassandras hand may be over. But the chase for her heart has only just begun . . .

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Blackstone Pub
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18 February 2020
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16.76 x 3.05 x 15.49 cm
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1094114367
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978-1094114361
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Lisa Kleypas is the award-winning author of nearly forty books of historical and contemporary romance, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. She is the recipient of two Rita awards and an RT Book Reviews Best Historical Romance award and has had several of her novels reach the New York Times bestseller list.

Mary Jane Wells (a.k.a. McAllister Lee) is a British actress, writer, voice-over artist, and Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she held a recurring role on the BBC's Half Moon Investigates and narrated the BBC Three television show My Children, which won a Scottish BAFTA.

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Publisher : Blackstone Pub; Unabridged edition (18 February 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1094114367
ISBN-13 : 978-1094114361
Item Weight : 313 g
Dimensions : 16.76 x 3.05 x 15.49 cm

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Ansuya Paleri

Ends the series nicely with a sweet romantic story

Reviewed in India on 18 February 2020

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I've read all of Lisa Kleypas's books and this is unlike any other story or storyline of hers. I assumed that when it was said that it was a marriage of convenience to between Tom and Cassandra, I expected something similar to Tempt Me at Twilight (Harry and Poppy's story) and it some ways it is, but it also sweetly different. We read about all the previous Ravenel characters with new character mentions. There a few time jump (a matter of a few months) and the main characters only get together by 60% of the book. There is no serious illness or secret unrevealed or any overly dramatic events in the book. Its a sweet romance novel. Honestly I do not know whether I should have expected more from Tom Severin (a character I had been looking forward to since Marrying Winterborne) or I feel disappointed because I hyped the book up myself over the past year. Previously, I've always liked the books of the last main heroine such as Scandal in Spring or Love in the Afternoon, but this book was missing something. I cannot say I saddened but I wish it had a little more angst that I've come to enjoy in her books like Devil in Winter, Dreaming of You or more recently Devil in Spring. Definitely wraps up the series nicely. Hope to read her next one soon.

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Anagha

A sweet story that falls a little short

Reviewed in India on 24 February 2020

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I was looking forward to reading about Tom Severin and Cassandra. Cassandra as a character does not really develop in the earlier books in the series and, unfortunately, she remains a fairly one dimensional character here. She is a very sweet girl whose naivete and innocence could be a wonderful foil for the unemotional world weary hero. I felt that the author did not have enough dramatic occasions that would help develop the story line or the relationship between the hero and the heroine. Just when things become interesting, the author seems to force the sex scenes into the story, leaving the drama and struggle aside. Tom's growth from an unemotional materialistic opportunist to a well rounded character in touch with his softer feelings seems hurried. An epilogue with all the characters in the series and their growth would have been an interesting ending to the series.

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Unlikely hero and conventional heroine

Reviewed in India on 15 March 2020

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An inspiring tale of an unlikely hero and a pretty much conventional heroine. Tom is brilliant,rich and ready to do anything but accept his emotional dependence on Cassandra,and it is very charming to see him gradually accept his need for her. The extent to which he goes to protect her from Ripon is extremely romantic.However Cassandra seems a very conventional heroine,albeit a very beautiful one.Some more spine and fire in her would have been appreciated,though maybe a quiet, patient and kind beauty was just the perfect foil to Tom's driven emotionless character.
All in all a good read.

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aparna

Worth the wait

Reviewed in India on 22 March 2020

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Lisa as always gives us a wonderful book.enjoyed it immensely

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Rupsa (_her.library_)

Another book from the romance expert!!

Reviewed in India on 3 June 2020

Let me tell all of you that if you decided to read this book & maybe thinking that “Oh no! it is the last book of the series. I have to go for the whole series before” then don’t be disappointed because in order to read it you don’t have to read the whole series. Yes, folks that’s the magic of Miss. Kleypas. You can simply read this book or any book of the series in any order & you won’t get bored. But there is one condition: you have to be a romance addicted because it is a pure romantic book. So if romance is your second priority then my advice- please don’t read it. It’ll bore you.
So the last book of this series is about the only unmarried Ravenel, Cassandra & how the railway magnate Tom wants her. The whole plot is on 18th century London society.
I really had big expectation from Tom Severin, who is the so called cruel, heartless, self-centred business man. In all the previous Ravenel books, he was the most mysterious to me. When I heard that Kleypas is going to write a book about him the most beautiful, prefect Lady Cassandra Ravenel; I thought that maybe some blast or some long chase is going to happen but what happened was just………well nothing of it HAPPENED!!
I was or probably still am so so soooooo much disappointed. I didn’t get to see a memorable chase. Utterly disappointment for me. Ugh!!

I am a huge fan of Lisa Kleypas but for this book I’m kind of disappointed. I really didn’t feel the excitement during reading it. The story feels like cliché and very predictable. However, I enjoyed the writing and of course reading the story but still there was something missing.

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Slow, preachy...and too much virtue signalling

Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2020

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I had high expectations for this book, and have been a Lisa Kleypas fan for many years. But despite a promising beginning to this one, overall I was sadly disappointed.

I liked the H and h, and I was intrigued at the beginning. But although the obstacles keeping them apart were understandable (class differences, hero doesn't believe in love, etc), it dragged along very slowly with the H and h leading separate lives for way, way too long.
Therefore, the story really lost momentum and excitement. Despite the fact that the hero was exceptionally interesting and compelling at the outset, he dithered for way too long without doing anything to get the girl. It's ironic that this book is called "Chasing Cassandra," because the hero does NOT chase Cassandra. He merely sees her briefly every few months. The heroine was very bland, and the hero becomes very bland.
The book became very slow, and frankly quite boring.

The story lacked intensity. And for me intensity is the most important element of a romance novel.

Furthermore, in this book it feels like Ms. Kleypas has jumped on the "social justice warrior" bandwagon of political correctness and "woke" virtue signalling in her writing. It's annoying and anachronistic.

There's no point in writing a historical romance in a historical setting if the entire book is permeated with 21st century politically correct subtext throughout.

It felt like the preachy social justice elements of the story outweighed the romance itself.

(SPOILERS AHEAD). There's way too much "virtuous filler" in this book -
For example, long boring scenes of the hero personally washing fleas and lice off of a dirty urchin (never in a million years would the richest man in England be doing that during Victorian times). And then adopting the urchin and treating him as his own child (not credible for the time- if he kept the child he would probably not have said "my son" he would have said "my ward" or something like that).
Way too much urchin in general- it felt as if the hero spent as much time with the urchin as he did with the heroine.

And all the stuff about the hero asking permission from the heroine before he could kiss and touch her, and negotiating a long, boring "contract" of how they would treat each other was ridiculous and annoying, it just dragged on way too long. The "contract" negotiation might have been fun if it lasted for a couple of pages, but it was circa 20 pages or more. Completely anachronistic- it felt like a 21st century discussion on gender equality, and it felt like Ms. Kleypas was trying to comply with the #Metoo movement.

And the icing on the cake (pun intended), the author threw in a clunky message of "body positivity" to add to the preachy virtue signalling: there were lots of annoying "fat shaming" incidents (the heroine was often told she needed to lose weight). The heroine kept gaining weight in the story, her clothes were too tight and bursting at the seams- but of course the hero kept saying he liked that, literally pushed her to eat cakes, and wouldn't mind if she gained 30 pounds. Rather than have some witty, sexy dialogue about how he enjoyed her voluptuousness- his words sounded like "woke" body positivity preaching. (The overweight heroine trope is used a lot these days- but as for gender equality, I've yet to come across a fat hero. Lots of blind ones, deaf ones, scarred ones, disabled ones- but no fat ones! )

The heroine here was very beautiful- but of course the hero had to emphasize that that wasn't why he wanted her (which directly contradicts the fact that he fell for her merely by seeing her across the room- in other words- he fell very hard for her only on the basis of her looks, before he'd even met her). The virtue-signalling heroine also made statements that she wouldn't mind marrying an ugly man (but of course the hero was gorgeous). It's almost as if the author was trying to apologise or overcompensate for writing about "beautiful" protagonists and didn't want to appear "looks-ist" (lol not sure if that's a word!)

Basically, the book started out as a hot love story, a bit edgy with with intriguing chemistry -
But ended up as a "woke," preachy, boring, virtue-signalling cornucopia of 21st century political correctness.

Because of course nowadays you can't write a novel about a rich powerful man unless he is using that power to be a do-gooder: the Victorian hero has to be written with 21st century standards of gender equality and political correctness. I supposed I should be grateful he wasn't portrayed as a tattooed climate change activist...

Surely historical romance novels are supposed to be escapist fantasy to get away from all this 21st century stuff? Not a method of pushing some sort of preachy woke agenda. Ugh.

Anyway, I can only hope talented author Lisa Kleypas doesn't continue in this vein going forward.

Addendum-- I just re-read Lisa Kleypas' "Secrets of a Summer Night," the first Wallflower book, which was written circa 15 years ago and is one of my favorite romance novels. I can't help but compare it to this. The H&h are both very edgy, a bit flawed, and very intense- and therefore fascinating and compelling. He's a bold ruthless guy; she's a snob and a fairly shameless gold-digger. Although they make no apologies for their flaws, the author gives an interesting backstory, and makes it clear why they are the way they are. Even though H&h are not particularly "nice, " as a reader you care about them and want them to be happy. It was so refereshing to re-read this fabulous book about protagonists who were a bit naughty and not "sanitized" do-gooders (Historical romance books as escapist fiction: they are not meant to reflect real life, not written to act as bland templates for good behavior in the 21st century)

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Buba

Mais uma obra de Lisa Kleypas que diverte e emociona

Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on 21 February 2020

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Chasing Cassandra foi uma obra que eu aguardei com ansiosa expectativa.
O romance, mesmo ficando um pouco abaixo do que eu esperava, leva 4.5 estrelas e palmas para a autora porque mesmo quando não apresenta uma obra perfeita Lisa Kleypas faz sua mágica com personagens e momentos inesquecíveis.
Durante anos LK construiu o personagem de Tom Severin como um magnata ambicioso, cínico e um tanto egocêntrico e confesso que foi um pouco difícil simpatizar com sua causa. No entanto, à medida em que a história avança, Lisa revela um herói forte, perseverante, corajoso e obstinado. Um menino que superou inúmeros obstáculos com muito custo e conseguiu sucesso e fortuna na vida adulta. A infância adversa deixou marcas que fazem de Tom um homem cauteloso e que protege seus sentimentos a todo custo. Uma bela, realista e comovente representação do “herói torturado”, sem excesso de drama.
O romance entre Tom e Cassandra demora um pouco a engrenar mas a autora lança “pérolas” no texto criando momentos memoráveis que impulsionam a história à frente. Pontos extras para as cenas com o menino Bazzle e a negociação do contrato matrimonial entre Cassandra e Tom que mostram o talento da autora em toda a sua extensão. Diálogos perfeitos, emoção e graça no mesmo pacote.
Cassandra é a gêmea calada e tímida e este livro conta sua história em 2 momentos diferentes. Primeiro mostra por que Cassandra não se conforma em ter um casamento sem amor e num segundo momento, por que ela passa a aceitar a oferta de casamento de Tom. É uma mudança de ritmo interessante e mostra a evolução dos personagens e de seus sentimentos, bem de acordo com os acontecimentos introduzidos na história.
No balanço geral Chasing Cassandra conta com caracterização excelente, cenas “chave” que divertem e comovem, diálogos emocionantes e a participação sempre bem vinda dos personagens dos demais livros da série, um dos trunfos dessa coleção.
No geral, esta obra traz a mesma sensação de completude dos livros anteriores: a família Ravenel, antes um grupo de pessoas disperso e disfuncional se transforma num clã poderoso e unido. Suas histórias de vida mostram o poder da união dos personagens, o respeito e amor entre eles.
Lisa Kleypas não decepciona nunca. Chasing Cassandra diverte e emociona. Não perca.

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Ravenels

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2020

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If this is the last of the Ravenel books i am gutted. But then i always am when it comes to the end of a Kleypas historical romance series. I dont know what it is but i so love the characters. You seem to get an update on previous characters then get to know the new. I have always loved Cassandra. The twins were just lovely. Cassandra beautiful inside aswell as out. Severin we have seen could be heartless but Cassandra was there to help thaw the man with a heart made of ice. Another 5 star and a wait for Lisa's next wonderful offering

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California Quinn

Another wonderful Ravenel story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2020

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I adored this story. Cassandra is so sweet and kind and emotionally intuitive making her the perfect match for self-made billionaire Tom Severin with his five emotions and his determination never to feel anything that will complicate his life... Then he's captivated by Cassandra - a beauty with an unconventional mind. And he's a goner but it takes him rather a long time to realise it because of those pesky five emotions that keep multiplying exponentially... Add to that a gloriously romantic bare foot waltz in a winter garden, some deliciously witty and wonderful dialogue, a ragged urchin who needs rescuing and the fabulous supporting cast of Ravenels and their other halves and you've got another Kleypas triumph. Worth the wait.... Now when's the next one??

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Rani

3.75 STARS (spoiler ahead)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2021

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Re-Read 10th January 2021

My views below stand but have to say enjoyed this book so much more this time around.

99p on amazon.

3.75 Light Stars - Feb 21st 2020

This is super slow burn HR, which focuses on Lady Cassandra Ravenel and self-made man and railway magnate Tom Severin.

I do feel that the issue created with Cassandra's reputation [and how those involved with creating it were dealt with, didn't have enough oomph it should have, and it felt like the issue ended rather abruptly. I'm used to villains getting what they deserve in LK books, but this time what just didn't leave me satisfied. I did enjoy seeing characters from previous books pop up in this one.

Overall, a enjoyable read, it just didn't pack the punch of previous LK books.

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