4.5 out of 5 stars
Cut to the Chase:
Though I didn’t originally expect to like this book, it ended up being one of my favorite Kleypas novels. Love in the Afternoon is a clever spin on the Cyrano de Bergerac tale: an eccentric animal lover takes on the identity of her beautiful, rather shallow friend and writes consoling letters to a lonely soldier. It is an entirely engrossing and readily repeatable read – though the protagonists fall in love with each other rather quickly, there are the requisite mistaken identifies and assumptions to get through, and the main characters are so nimbly drawn and layered that you’ll be sad when the novel ends.
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