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It Happened One Autumn (Wallflower Quartet)
: I am a huge fan of Lisa Kelypas. I will pretty much buy anything with her name on it. That does not mean I am not objective, I know when something sucks and when it doesn't. This book is a total home run for Ms. Kleypas. I can't add too much that the other reviewers haven't already stated. Only that this book is one of the best that Ms Kleypas has written in a very long time.
I can say though that I am very excited to read Sebastian's story. He seems to be a lot like Derek Craven, a seemingly evil man that can be redeemed by love. Hopefully his story will come out soon.
I just couldn't warm up to Lillian. She was supposed to be a strong-willed character, which was fine, but she came off being self-centered in my opinion. What Sebastian saw in her I don't understand. I would have dropped her like a hot potato. Kleypas' Dreaming of You was a far superior novel with characters that were so easy to fall in love with.
In 1843, American heiress Lillian Bowman, a card carrying member of the Wallflowers, sets her sights on marrying the "Ice Prince" Marcus. He rejects her advances as he sees her and her three Wallflower compatriots as uncouth barbarians, who think nothing about parading in front of him in their undergarments though he admits only to himself the colonist looked quite alluring.
With his aloof put downs, Lillian concludes that her beloved is a snob who needs to be yanked down a peg or two and she, the Yank, will do so. Marcus, in turn thinks her insolence is a case of poor breeding. With all that going on it is no wonder that Lillian and Marcus are falling in love with one another, but first must put aside the boxing gloves for a moment; an act neither wants to do first for fear of a low blow retaliation.
As she did with the first Wallflowers' historical romance (see SECRETS OF A SUMMER NIGHT), Lisa Kleypas provides her audience with a delightful Victorian tale starring two individuals in this case who detest one another at first sight. The theme is opposites might attract, but also expel as neither wants to desire the other in a classic case of reaction formation because deep inside their hearts they know they have met their soulmate, who is not the image of what they thought they wanted. The lead couple keeps the fun story line brisk as enemy combatants in love.
Harriet Klausner
Lisa, you have outdone yourself again. I can't believe I finished it so fast. Your dialogue is so riveting, I often can't help myself from jumping ahead to the next "encounter," then I have to flip back and savor it all over again! I laughed out loud more than once and carried it around all day with me when I neared the end of the story. I liked the first book in the Wallflower series, but this second one is going to be hard to beat. You have your work cut out for you with St. Vincent, as I am not fond of him at this point. I can't picture him as your next hero without a great deal of therapy! :) Keep writing, girl!
Kleypas does it again! She dependably turns out books that deliver just the right amount of passion and drama drawn together by an excellent writing style that keeps me riveted.
Lillian Bowman, featured in the Secrets of a Summer Night, is a fiesty American heiress and having been gilted by the New York upper class is dragged to England by her social climbing Momma in order to marry into aristocracy. However as much as she tries to be refined and proper she is still retains the low brow mouth of her grandmother and can swear with the best sailors.
Marcus Marsden, the Earl of Westcliff, is a supporting character in at least two other Kleypas books. He has lived his life to a strict English code of propriety. Not living as a monk mind you but always descreet. He has single-handledly pulled his family from financial ruin by breaking with traditonal aristocracy and aligning himself with some powerful self made men (other Kleypas heroes), not of the arisotocracy, who are as business savvy as he is.
If you read Secrets of a Summer Night you remember that the animosity between Lillian and Marcus is as immediate as it is fierce. But if resistance is the measure of desire...they desire each other fiercely. Despite Marcus best intentions he can't resist the pull of someone so free, so wild, so unlike himself. Lillian on the other hand is complete flummoxed by someone she believed she had figured out. She is completely suprised by how undone and passionate the paragon of English virtue is becoming.
I liked Lillian because she is completely rich character. She is vibrantly full of life. And Marcus...sigh...Kleypas definitely has this fella right.
The only thing I want to know is where I can get some of that perfume?
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