Into Temptation
by Penny Vincenzi
Into Temptation by Penny Vincenze
Penny's final installment of the Lytton Family trilogy kept me company
on the very long flights between Philadelphia and Los Angeles as well as
late nights alone in a hotel room. Although I must confess that the
ending was rather rushed and one characters solution to a dilemma
surprising, the story of the clan was, as ever, highly entertaining,
enlightening, shocking and absorbing. I actually cried during one
particularly upsetting episode. Celia, in her indomitable way, opens
the story with an announcement that confounds the clan but as always she
acts as the beacon of the family and the Lytton publishing company.
Meanwhile the actions of Barty, the adopted waif who gains control of
Lyttons thanks to her marriage to the rouge cousin-by-marriage threaten
to upend control of the firm in a nail-biting saga that keeps us
guessing right to the last page. The next generation of Lyttons comes
of age revealing yet another layer of intrigue. So many personalities
are explored in this series that my daughter and I use them in ways to
explain our own and others idiosyncracies and behaviors. An ambitious
book club would have a blast selecting the trilogy as the conversations
would be endless.
Penny's final installment of the Lytton Family trilogy kept me company on the very long flights between Philadelphia and Los Angeles as well as late nights alone in a hotel room. Although I must confess that the ending was rather rushed and one characters solution to a dilemma surprising, the story of the clan was, as ever, highly entertaining, enlightening, shocking and absorbing. I actually cried during one particularly upsetting episode. Celia, in her indomitable way, opens the story with an announcement that confounds the clan but as always she acts as the beacon of the family and the Lytton publishing company. Meanwhile the actions of Barty, the adopted waif who gains control of Lyttons thanks to her marriage to the rouge cousin-by-marriage threaten to upend control of the firm in a nail-biting saga that keeps us guessing right to the last page. The next generation of Lyttons comes of age revealing yet another layer of intrigue. So many personalities are explored in this series that my daughter and I use them in ways to explain our own and others idiosyncracies and behaviors. An ambitious book club would have a blast selecting the trilogy as the conversations would be endless.