My Darling Duke (Sinful Wallflowers)

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Maryann, for instance, has been betrothed to a man twice her age and plans to escape marriage by getting herself ruined by a notorious rake (in a book to come, natch). She throws herself into her work and rarely comes up for air, not even to plan her upcoming wedding. Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house.

Kitty’s solution to the family’s issues are simple – she will feign an engagement to the reclusive, not seen for years, mad, bad and dangerous Duke of Thornton. Dialogue between characters was abysmal, played around with the speed to make sure I could get the best out of it but didn get past the first chapter. After losing her mother at a young age, Macy is navigating her teenage years without a female role model, relying on the time-stamped notes her mother left in her father’s care for guidance. I also wish we got to read about H's sister meeting h's sisters as I feel like that would've been a joy to read about. Encouraged by her supportive group of friends she decides to make the life-changing decision of lying about her engagement to an influential Duke to allow her sisters to enter society.This book shattered my heart into a million pieces and I’m not sure how to carry on so maybe I’ll go cry some more. Kitty is a world-weary twenty-three, and with her hopes for a husband and children fading, she and her friends decide to be “sinful. So you do not regret riding astride… twice, daring to attend Lady Appleby’s ball without a corset, and rescuing a cat in a tree?

Which is why Kitty talks to the international press, so it totally won’t get back to Thornton (Facepalm. Alexander has been suffering in his castle for quite a long time after being disabled in a fire that cost his parents’ lives.I also couldn’t seem to get enough of seeing the romance that came to the forefront and oh the SWOONY MOMENTS that just tugged at my heartstrings. Choosing to live the life of a recluse, Alexander has ostracised himself from London and Government following a tragic accident that has left him scarred, and by the time he does find out about his alleged engagement, Kitty will have secured a worthy match for her sisters among London’s most eligible bachelors, and thereby protecting her family from financial ruin.

She falls for him pretty quickly, and even though she knows it won’t be easy to tear down the barriers that he has built for himself, she is also a fighter.When her friends declare themselves ‘Sinful Wallflowers’, she comes up with an outrageous plan to use the power of a duke's name to her advantage. Thrown into improbable intimacies—a bridge collapse necessitates their helping each other out of their wet clothes—their fencing gives way to kissing and much more until Alexander’s guilt at not being able to give Kitty children threatens to end their now authentic-feeling engagement.