Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born.
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OVERALL SERIES RATING: 4.5 stars.
Again the Magic (Wallflowers, #0.5) rating: 3 stars
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) rating: 4 stars
It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2) rating: 4.5 stars
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3) rating: 5 stars
Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4) rating: 5 stars
A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers, #5): 4.5 stars
A review for a different type of book today! A historical romance! I’ve done a review of The Prize by Julie Garwood in the past and, not going to lie, I felt rather embarrassed about having read these types of books. You know historical romance with a high amount of erotica. But now I’ve realised “stuff it! I can review what ever the hell I want on my blog” and that is what I will do. Expect more of these types of reviews in the future.
Now on to the Wallflower series. Honestly, I was a little apprehensive going into this series. The only historical romances I had ever read were medieval ones and I was a little bored with books set in the 19th century. I picked up the first book in this series on a whim really because a lot of my friends on Goodreads had given books in the series 5 out of 5 stars and they were raving about them. Although I didn’t storm through the books one after another in the space of a week like many, I took my time and read them over the space of about 4 months. Its safe to say, I really enjoyed them. A lot. I’ve even gone back and reread passages over and over again.
One thing that really captured me in this series was Lisa Kleypas’ writing style. It was engaging and consistent throughout. I found that when I started to read a book I would find myself looking up from the book an hour later and not realising how much time has passed. It was a nice experience as over the past few months I had been going through a horrible phase of starting books but taking weeks to finish them. I also really enjoyed Kleypas’ characterisation. Everyone of the characters in these books are original and intriguing. I especially loved Evie and Daisy, and Sebastian and Matthew. Such great characters and I always wanted to know more about them. Even now as I make my way through Her other series The Hathaways I am hoping for more little scenes with wallflower gang.
Obviously there are aspects of the books that are not for everyone. There are things that appeal to different people and everyone will find something that they dislike whether it’s something that happens in the plot or a character. For me, I wasn’t fond of Lillian, I loved her book BUT when she appeared in any of the other books I hated her. I really disliked her in Devil in Winter and Scandal in Spring. Although this is just my personal taste and she had some traits that I dislike immensely in people.
Other than that, there wasn’t much in these that were badly done, the main reason for giving a few of the books a lower rating that the others was because of how much I enjoyed the book. There wasn’t anything wrong with them really, I just wasn’t as connected with the story, I preferred some of the stories over others.
Overall, if you’re looking to read a few light historical romances, look no further than Lisa Kleypas. I can’t express how much I recommend her. I’ve read quite a lot of historical romance over the past year and these were some of the top books I’ve read. So enjoyable and the characters are just divine. I’ve just started The Hathaways series and although I didn’t enjoy the first book as much as the Wallflowers, I will certainly be carrying on with the series.
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