Author: Lisa Kleypas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Year Published: 2007
Number of Pages: 371 pages
Date Read: 7/7/2012
Series: Travises #1
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Source: Library
Content Rating: Ages 18+ (Some Sex Scenes)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
Ever since I had started reading Lisa Kleypas’ “Hathaways” series, I had fallen in love with her
romance novels ever since! Well, after
reading so many romance novels from Lisa
Kleypas that were mostly historical romance, I began reading some of Lisa Kleypas’ contemporary romance
novels, the most recent one I have read is none other than “Sugar Daddy!”
Liberty Jones was fourteen years old when she first met the
local hunky boy next door Hardy Cates.
Unfortunately, Hardy Cates ends up leaving the Texan town called Welcome
to pursue his own ambitions, leaving Liberty Jones to confront with years of
loneliness. During her time of
loneliness, Liberty
also has to cope with the death of her mother which leaves her in the care of
her baby sister, Carrington and she had to struggle to survive on her own. Years later however, Liberty gets a job at a hair salon and meets
elderly Texan aristocrat Churchill Travis.
After Liberty is introduced to the Travis family which included Gage
Travis, the oldest son, Jack Travis, the middle son and Haven Travis the only
daughter in the family. Not only does Liberty
soon realize that the Travis family is the kindest family she has ever known,
but Liberty also
discovers about the importance of true love.
I will admit that “Sugar
Daddy” was way different from any other contemporary romance novel I have
read. For one thing, the story consists
of a love triangle between the main characters Liberty Jones, Hardy Cates and
Gage Travis. Now, I sometimes have
issues with reading romance novels that has a love triangle plotline because
most of the time, if a third character pops into the love triangle, it is not
until the last second that the third person in the triangle arrives and sometimes
the romance between the characters seem a bit forced when this happens. Lisa
Kleypas however makes the love triangle plotline work perfectly as we
really get to know each character and their struggles during their life and the
romance they pursue. Liberty Jones is
now officially one of my most favorite heroines ever from Lisa Kleypas’ romance novels!
I loved the fact that Liberty Jones is shown as an independent heroine
as she not only has to deal with racism due to her being Mexican-American
(which is something I truly admired about her character since it is rare that I
see a diverse heroine or hero in a romance novel, although it is probably
because I am not looking in the right place), but she also had to deal with
taking care of her baby sister Carrington when her mother died. It was a truly moving experience for me in
seeing Liberty
being determined in providing a good life for herself and her baby sister and
it was this aspect of her personality that really made me feel attracted to her
character. I also loved the way that Lisa Kleypas developed Liberty’s
character throughout this novel as we started to get to know Liberty’s deeper
emotions about her life and how she feels about both Hardy Cates and Gage
Travis and it was interesting seeing the world through her point of view. Now let me get on with explaining about the
heroes in this novel! I just loved Gage
Travis because he is such an interesting hero that is not your average handsome
looking rich boy! I loved the way that Lisa Kleypas made Gage Travis into this
troubled character that had to meet his father’s expectations and yet is able
to truly feel true love for Liberty Jones and her little sister,
Carrington. I also loved the fact that
Gage Travis is one good-looking hero who is described as having a lean muscular
body that really sets me on fire! I also
enjoyed the character Hardy Cates in his early years because he was such a
sweet and handsome guy who cared for Liberty
during her time of need and I loved the fact that he is so muscular compared to
Gage!
For anyone who does not like reading sex scenes in a novel
might want to skip over the sex scenes in this novel, although the sex scenes
in this novel do not show up too often. Also,
one major issue I had with this novel is the fact that Gage Travis was not
introduced in the story until near the end of the second half of this
novel. I felt that if the book was a
little longer, we would have seen more scenes between Liberty and Gage and instead
of having an instant romance, we would have seen the struggles between Liberty
and Gage trying to work out their differences between each other since Gage is
rich and wealthy while Liberty had to struggle to live the life that she wanted
for herself and her sister. I also
thought that Hardy Cates should have arrived back into Liberty’s
life after Liberty started living with the
Travis family a little earlier because there would have been more scenes
between Liberty
and Hardy trying to adjust to being near each other as adults. Also, with Hardy Cates coming in a bit late
in the story caused the ending of this novel to be a bit forced (I will not
tell you what happened at the end since I do not want to spoil it for anyone).
Overall, “Sugar
Daddy” is still a brilliant novel to read and is easily one of my most
favorite contemporary romance novels ever around! I definitely recommend this book to fans of Lisa Kleypas’ romance novels!
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