Willig’s breezy, chick-lit style makes the link between the modern and historical timelines a two-way street, with deliberate anachronisms on the historical side such as “Follow that sedan chair!” and the Cosmopolitan Lady’s Book (with Ten Tips for a Flirtier Fan). The Lure of the Moonflower is a great read even if you haven’t read the other books in the series, because Willig combines historical accuracy with a unique-and highly entertaining-take on the Napoleonic Wars and the adventure/romance tradition begun by Baroness Orczy with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Having interwoven the lives of a number of fictional spies, it brings the story back round to the beginning with a happy ending for both the Pink Carnation of the 19th-century story line and Eloise, the Harvard graduate student who stumbles on the Pink Carnation’s history in 2004. How-and why-do you end a successful, open-ended series? After a decade spent in the company of the Pink Carnation and a bouquet of flower-themed Napoleonic-era spies, Lauren Willig has brought her series to a close with the twelfth book, The Lure of the Moonflower.
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