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Indlæser... The Wicked Wallflower (Bad Boys & Wallflowers, #1) (udgave 2013)af Maya Rodale
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. In classic Maya Rodale form, I laughed out loud, teared up, and sighed in equal measure at this delightful romance. Yay for wallflowers winning the day (even if it doesn’t happen IRL)! Of course, you have to be willing to forgo some blatantly anachronistic/modern behaviors. A debutante spending two days in a carriage alone with a single man wholly unrelated to her?? Ruined! And see if you can spot what’s wrong with this quote: “The Duke of Ashbrooke, reformed?” gasped one matron. “I never thought I’d live to see the day!” “By all accounts, you have,” the gentleman replied dryly. “Pity, that,” she murmured. - White’s Gentlemen’s Club, A private room ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Maya Rodale's captivating new series introduces London's Least Likely??three wallflowers who are about to become the toast of the ton . . . Lady Emma Avery has accidentally announced her engagement??to the most eligible man in England. As soon as it's discovered that Emma has never actually met the infamously attractive Duke of Ashbrooke, she'll no longer be a wallflower; she'll be a laughingstock. And then Ashbrooke does something Emma never expected. He plays along with her charade. A temporary betrothal to the irreproachable Lady Avery could be just the thing to repair Ashbrooke's tattered reputation. Seducing her is simply a bonus. And then Emma does what he never expected: she refuses his advances. It's unprecedented. Inconceivable. Quite damnably alluring. London's Least Likely to Misbehave has aroused the curiosity??among other things??of London's most notorious rogue. Now nothing will suffice but to uncover Emma's wanton side and prove there's nothing so satisfying as two perfect strangers . . . being perfectly scandalous to Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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The draw of Rodale's books for me has always been the wit and character relationships. Aside from the romance her books almost always feature friends who do things other then the ordinary Ton stuff, family and entanglements that weave throughout. The veteran Rodale fan will recognize several familiar faces from her "Writing Girls" books in fact!
I don't care if there's accuracy. I don't care if its fluff and is basically like eating a piece of cake (or the whole cake...). I don't read romance for historical accuracy--I read nonfiction for that. I don't read romance for the deep literary thoughts it can produce--I read Greek tragedies and Shakespeare for that. I read romance because it will often make me laugh, cry, throw my hands up in disbelief and growl (sometimes in the same page). Romance to me is about the characters and if I want them together.
So did I want Emma and Ashbrooke together? Yes. If only to get Benedict out of the picture (though really I wanted them together for more then that reason). Its a clear case of opposites attract, but neither is particularly good at reading between the lines. Why yes you're attracted to each other but that hardly means he'd put up with your friends' ridiculous plots. Why yes she wants to make out with but the fact she doesn't care about "The Ashbrooke Effect" is enough to make you wonder why she wants you doesn't it?
As the first book it set up the whole scenario for the trilogy. I liked Prudence the best, but Emma came in a close second. I identified with them the most I think. I found it hard to connect with Olivia (which is only mildly mitigated in her own book WALLFLOWER GONE WILD). To me it made sense these three women would band together to be each other's moral support. And while this felt a little over long I appreciated the fact that Ashbrooke didn't dither over his feelings. ( )