It Happened One Autumn

DNF at 50%. I liked the Devil in Midwinter but overall this author isn't for me (so sorry! I know this is super unpopular)!

3.75/5

I'm torn.

On one hand the writing was amazing and I liked this book. But all of this dubcon (and it was dubcon) was too much and seriously what the hell did they do to my Sebastian. That was entirely out of character and I HATED IT. JUST WHYYYYYY. He was already a rake, Lisa, you didn't have to make him worse!!!

Anyway. I loved it when Hunt caught Westcliff and Lillian together and his comment about “once a week” lmaoo. Yes, throw Westcliff's words back at him!! It was so funny!

Though I really hated that every time Westcliff and Lillian kissed or did more, she was either trying to get out and leave, or SHE WAS DRUNK. COME ON, WESTCLIFF. THINK.

4/5 - The second instalment of the Wallflower Series was a rather delightful read, with there being great chemistry between the main love interests.

So I read Wallflowers #4, then #1 and now #2. I can't tell if #4 has been my fave so far just because I started there? As a quartet, things get a little formulaic. The love story is always adversaries-to-lovers, which is a totally fine story (although I doubt there will ever be a finer version than Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy), but the repetition across this set makes me more critical of the idiosyncracies of each version. Lillian & Westcliff are my least favorite of the duos thus far, because their “we dislike each other so much maybe we're secretly crazy about each other” vibe is just a smidge too close to a “tease elementary school crush in ineffective and annoying ways” thing. They are legitimately obnoxious to each other at several points! But who am I to begrudge two fictional characters their happy ending of mutually pleasurable bickering punctuated by equally mutually pleasurable sex.

I liked this much better than the first book. Lillian was more refreshing as a leading lady, her spunk made her interesting.

Por enquanto, esse foi o mais querido da série.
Lillian é muito divertida e com espírito.
Marcus é centrado e um bom personagem. Mas por algum motivo o imaginei como acrobata hahahahahaha.

Apenas não sei como a autora fará para que gostemos de Sebastian no próximo volume (pior que eu o conhecia pela série seguinte e jamais imaginei que ele havia participado do que ocorreu com Lillian).

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but after Westcliff took Lillian to his bed while she was clearly intoxicated, I could no longer root for their romance. He took advantage of her, plain and simple. It would be different if he had been drinking also, but he was stone cold sober and she was sloshed. It brings to mind the movie The Cutting Edge and how Doug refused to sleep with Kate while she was drunk, even though she was furious with him for it. That was a turning point for his character. The moment he proved himself to be a good guy at heart. He did the right thing, and what Westcliff SHOULD have done. Westcliff is no hero in my eyes. I can't look at him in the same way now.

(Probably 4.5, rounding up.) Loved the heroine, probably one of my favorite romance heroines. Mostly liked the hero, deducting a half-star here for how violent he was sometimes, particularly almost killing the countess and pulling Lillian off her horse, which seems really dangerous?. Still love the relationships between the Wallflowers most of all. Really enjoying this series!