Wallflowers series – Cannonball Read 17

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Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleyas

May 1, 2019 by Mrs. Julien 2 Comments

The Ravenels series by Lisa Kleypas series has turned into “Sebastian and Evie’s Kids Get Hitched” and I am not complaining. Devil’s Daughter has the trademark Kleypas elements of wit, charm, a compelling hero, and delightful smolder. I’m just going to assume you are familiar with all of the books and characters that feed into this one. Readers first met Phoebe, Lady Clare, as a squalling infant in one of my favourite Sebastian, Lord Saint Vincent moments from any of his appearances: “There, darling,” St. Vincent had been known […]

A Christmas Romance

December 24, 2016 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

It should be known that I am a completist. I love to complete a series, it’s like the book version of checking the last thing off of a to do list. (I also like to do lists.) To cap off the Wallflowers series Lisa Kleypas wrote A Wallflower Christmas, and I was in because I also like to finish the year with a Christmassy read when I can, and I’ve already reread and reviewed A Kiss for Midwinter once this Cannonball. As I summarized in my review of Scandal in Spring, Kleypas set herself up with four […]

“Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets, I could save the world.”

December 12, 2016 by faintingviolet 8 Comments

Here we have the concluding story of the Wallflowers quartet (ok, not quite, there is a Christmas book about a brother that I have already requested from the library even though Mrs. Julien marked it two stars…) and we have arrived at Daisy’s story, our last remaining Wallflower. I’ve had ups and downs with these books this year, but mostly this book ends the series on a good note. Scandal in Spring shows that Kleypas has learned from her previous outings. I still feel It […]

Dear Ms Kleypas, I have concerns.

August 15, 2016 by faintingviolet 9 Comments

After being less than won over by the first book in the Wallflowers series by Lisa Kleypas, I decided the thing to do was to keep going. I figured out later that my real issue was with the secondary plot line and have warmed to the style of Kleypas’ writing in the intervening weeks. In the Wallflowers series, Kleypas tracks the lives and loves of four women passed over by the eligible men of the ton and the friendship they develop along the way. Book […]

A Historical Romance Set in the Recognizable 1840s! Thank Godtopus!

June 23, 2016 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

I don’t know if this was the best Kleypas to start off with, my other Romance readers will have to let me know, but I was not overly enraptured with it, even though its set in my favorite historical decade. There was plenty in this book which had the potential to hook me in, but it felt very by the numbers, even for a book that supposes its turning the tropes on themselves. (I unfortunately have a high bar for that.) Mrs. Julien is going […]

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