Instead of defending himself, or trying to act circumspect, he does everything possible to confirm their suspicions. Where do I even begin? The hero is widowed and everyone in the ton thinks that he killed his first wife. I should have just put it down and not finished it, but I somehow kept hoping it would get better. This book started out alright but as it progressed it just got worse and worse. THEY ARE EVIL!!! EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATIVE!!Ģ stars. THE MOMS IN THIS SERIES ARE SO ANTI-FEMINIST AND PISS ME OFF SO BADLY. The ending fell a little flat but it was still adorable and super sweet.

Little did she know.Īnyways, Phinn is a sweet boy with a dark past and he should be protected. There she confesses that she hates Phinn and does not want to marry him. They go to a masquerade ball and she meets a man who saves her from some troubling circumstances. I felt bad for Phinn a lot of the times because society has this horrible opinion of him and they often interrupted him when he wanted to romance Olivia. He knows that Olivia is scared of her so he wants to properly romance her and convince her that he's not a monster and can win her heart. He's very calculative and knows that his lack of emotions may have caused his first wife's death. Phinn is an inventor and works with machinery alongside Blake, the duke in the first book. So she felt undesirable and not beautiful. I also really like despite her being so strong in determining her own future, she still has vulnerabilities towards being a wallflower and how nobody asked her to go for a dance. Throughout the book she also tries to break off the engagement and tries to make herself the opposite of 'perfect' and 'prissy' which causes our hero to grow flustered over her unladylike behaviour. However, she can't explain why she feels so flustered around him and there are signs that the hero is actually a good person and not a bad one. Throughout the book Olivia is working to solve the mystery and is in fear that she'll die if she were to go with the wedding. There is a mystery as to what happened to Phinn's wife and how she passed away. It's heavy with sarcasm and similar to Tessa Dare writing. This book is also very funny and I found myself laughing a lot. Mean girls make fun out of her for actually being near a man and she runs off when she hears her mother is near. This one starts off kind of weird with Olivia meeting our hero, Phinn, at a ball and she walks up to him and makes a fool out of herself by commenting on his beautiful green eyes.

Wallflower Gone Wild by Maya Rodale