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The Wicked Wallflower Maya Rodale 9780062231147 Books Reviews

Blake, the Duke of Ashbrooke, is used to being in the gossip columns, but one brings him exactly what he needs. The column says that he is engaged to Lady Emma Avery. Blake needs investors in his new invention that he calls the Difference Machine. His rakehell reputation has made investors shy away from investing in his project. A betrothal to an above-reproach young lady is just what he needs to make him seem more stable. And it is his understanding that Lady Emma is just that, so he talks Emma into a sham engagement, making the ton think the rumors are true.

Blake has another concern, as well. His aunt conducts the fortune games every year and he has not been invited this year. He decides to take Emma to his aunt's estate to compete anyway. He offers to share the prize with her if they win. Emma has her own problems that the prize would solve, so she agrees to this madcap adventure.

Rodale has embarked on a series that crosses from an historical romance book to a companion contemporary book, and then to an historical, etc. spanning six books. This is an admirable goal. Jayne Ann Krentz was probably the first author to do this, and she did it very successfully. It remains to be seen if Maya Rodale Will do it as well.

For me, she does not start out well, because she seems to be inspired in her first historical in the series on a popular contemporary theme, The Hunger Games. The plot is ambitious, but Rodale does not capitalize on the complex aspects she introduces. The author rather disappointingly, spends an inordinate amount of pages repeating ad nauseam the mind talk of the heroine about her lack of confidence. As one reads the novel, one wishes so much that the author would let up on this and develop the adventure and action the author introduces. This author misses so many opportunities to enhance the complexities of her plot and to develop the nuances of her characters.

The characters often lapse into contemporary dialogue and behavior, which for me, is a minus. If I want to read a contemporary, I would. if I pick up an historical, that is what I expect. I guess we just need to make a genre label for this type of novel, so us readers will not be fooled over and over by these authors who are confused. Shall we call them Historical Contemporaries or Contemporary Historicals?

If one can get past all the tedium of the repetitive mind talk, and the jarring contemporary aspects, and the copy cat games, the writing is really quite quite good. I so want to hand this novel back to Rodale and tell her to redo it. Her writing shows that she could do it so much better if given another chance.
I loved the thrilling and we'll paced seduction presented in this novel. Emma and Blake have chemistry and while still a love story the author doesn't shy away from asking them to question whether chemistry is enough for love. They ad Blake's aunt Agatha are great reads, and one can't help but feel for timid Benedict. He was second best but I can't help but hope he finds someone who really loves him. My only gripe with this book is...good Emma's friends are annoying. What is supposed to come off as witty good fun comes off as two women who are utterly unable to comprehend Emma their supposed friend. If there's one thing I hate it is authors mistaking friends sensing chemistry for friends being hopeless busy bodies. Emma is supposed to be friends with Olivia and Prudence,. But even at the end of the book Emma is almost flaunting her success while her friends remain single. We never see her try and suggest setting them up at all, or thinking about supporting them if they remain spinsters. And also the stupid nicknames. When I got to the end of the book and saw there is a metastory that made since. The social world of England is treated like high School. No one would care about a petty finishing school name, especially the nicknames they had. Their nicknames would actually push parents to push their sons to these seemingly safe girls. This author could deal with reading a bit of Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice. Even in a romance novel there should be some depth of mature understanding to the social world of yore. The most scandalous nickname would be Emma's because it suggests she is a loose woman or she is vapid. It would seem more accurate to have nobodies interested in the wallflowers than anything else

And then the author repeats the same phrasing over and over again. Wallflower isn't a common phrase but in one section it is used ten times.

Again it's a good book but I skipped almost every part involving Olivia and Prudence and found the repetition incited skimming. But the love story is pretty much golden. Steamy and romantic.
Liked very much and would recommend to others. Great repartee. Good plot.