Lit Wallflowers Podcast

We love Lenora Bell and fairytale retellings!  Bell presents Beauty and the Beast with a flip in “Love is a Rogue” book one in the Wallflowers vs Rogues series! Lady Beatrice is in the country trying to write her etymological dictionary.  However, she there are noise and human distractions.  The well formed distraction causes her spectacles to fall and he utilizes a trellis. Stamford aka Ford Wrig...

Adelaide Frampton does not get caught yet she is found by her nemesis the Duke of Clayborn, Henry Carrington, in “Heartbreaker” by Sarah MacLean! The Princess of Thieves’ mission was to get in and get out of a place familiar to her.  She found what she searches for however her curiosity has her examining a box she plans to easily take until he speaks. It has been a year since her set down by the s...

Another Hell’s Belles released, but first we revisit Sesily and Caleb’s love story “Bombshell” by Sarah MacLean.  During our Pot-tail Pondering, we cover another daring woman and her Scotsman in “A Caribbean Heiress in Paris,” book one of the Las Leonas series by Adriana Herrera! Check out our initial review with friend of the pod Natalie @kissandletmetellyou, Season 3 episode 30 During our second...

Drewsmina Trelayne meets her future birdwatching partner in “A Duchess by Midnight” by Charis Michaels, book three of the Awakened by a Kiss trilogy! The former mean stepsister waits to be called to see the Prince and her stepsister.  While she waits with other visitors, birds get loose and chaos ensues.  She does not want the birds harmed so the mysterious, handsome hooded man breaks a window to...

Isobel Tinker believes big adventures are behind her until Jason Beckett starts lurking around her workplace in “When You Wish Upon a Duke” by Charis Michaels, book two of the Awakened by a Kiss series! Isobel lived a wildly adventurous teenage life throughout Europe.  Her last adventure left her separating herself from her crowd, “the lost boys.”  She uses her knowledge and language skills in a t...

It is fairy tale time, but with a twist!  The Huntsman from Snow White falls for an apple orchardist in “A Duchess a Day” by Charis Michaels, book one of the Awakened by a Kiss series! Declan Shaw was wrongfully imprisoned when Snow White went missing on his watch.  He receives a get-out-of-jail card and money if he agrees to be the groom of the duke’s fiancée, makes sure she does not run away, an...

Lady Aurelie Capet escapes France and former spymaster, Mr. Christian Hawkes, traces her to London “You Were Made to Be Mine” by Julie Anne Long, book five of The Palace of Rogues series! Aurelie emerges in London as Mrs. Gallagher and hides in the Grand Palace on the Thames.  She enjoys her time there, but she plans to sail to her brother in America. All leads point Hawkes to TGPOTT to find the E...

The Duke of Valkirk wants peace and quiet to write his next book, but the arrival of Mariana Wylde threatens his haven in “After Dark with the Duke” by Julie Anne Long, book four of The Palace of Rogues series! Mariana Wylde escapes her residence in the dead of night and seeks refuge in The Grand Palace on the Thames… if Dot lets her in after curfew hours.  With barely any funds, Mariana’s reputat...

Mr. Hugh Cassidy snitches and gets Lady Lillias Vaughn adult grounded in “I’m Only Wicked with You” by Julie Anne Long, book three of The Palace of Rogues series! Lillias has not been herself for the past two months and two days.  Her latest life experience was smoking a cheroot.  Hugh has to tell her father the earl out of concern because he would not want his own sister to be smoking in unfamili...

The first official guest at The Grand Palace on the Thames finally arrives in “Angel in a Devil’s Arms by Julie Anne Long, book two of The Palace of Rogues series! Mrs. Angelique Breedlove interviews Lucien Durand, the supposedly unalive Lord Bolt.  What should be an innocent process has Angelique turning red and Lucien intrigued. Lucien has revenge on his mind.  On his to do list is to own the pr...

We will be riverside this series at The Grand Palace on the Thames starting with “Lady Derring Takes a Lover” by Julie Anne Long, book one of The Palace of Rogues series! Lady Delilah Derring finds out that her late husband left her with keys to a building he won in a wager and with the newly discovered secret that he had a mistress, Angelique. Mrs. Breedlove was at her trusty pub when Delilah vis...

We get not one, not two, not three, but four zaddies this episode!  Lisa Kleypas gives us Nick Gentry and Lord Westcliff from “Worth Any Price,” and Dr. Jake Linley and Derek Craven from Against the Odds in the Where’s My Hero? Anthology!! Nick Gentry is now a Bow Street runner and is great at it!  To escape the hero praise in London, he takes on a private commission to hunt someone down leading h...

Definitely a top, if not thee top, zaddy is Sir Ross Cannon from “ Lady Sophia’s Lover” by Lisa Kleypas! The monk of Bow Street devotes himself to his work until a new employee has got his loins on fire.  Lady Sophia Sydney seeks employment with Sir Ross for one reason… revenge. Revenge never works out!  Sophia finds herself realizing Sir Ross is one of the good ones.  As they learn more of each o...

Our next zaddy is Bow Street runner Grant Morgan from “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Lisa Kleypas! Grant quickly realizes the most expensive courtesan, Vivian Duvall, is not his type during their first meeting.  Not use to men telling her “no,” Grant’s refusal to dance with Vivian ended in gossip about him. One work night, Grant arrives to a scene with a woman who was pulled from the Thames and fac...

Happy Zaddy Month!  Our first zaddy is Christi Caldwell’s Courtland Balfour, Duke of St. James in “Desperately Seeking a Duchess!” Courtland posed as his twin brother who works for the Duke of Bentley.  His charms should get Bentley’s children to leave the English countryside for London town, but his trip leaves him shot at and beaten up.  However, there is a spark between him and the duke’s daugh...

James the Marquis of Riverdale returns on a personal detective mission and suspects Elizabeth Hotchkiss in “How to Marry a Marquis” by Julia Quinn!! Elizabeth works as a companion for Lady Danbury and she manages her household consisting of four younger siblings since her baronet father past.  Her wages barely keep her family feed and the five year paid rental agreement will soon end.  Marriage to...

We meet two strong women who each meet their spy in Julia Quinn’s Agents of the Crown series.  This week, we start with clever Caroline Trent and her hilarious antics in “To Catch an Heiress!!” After fleeing her current guardian’s home because of a botched plan to ruin Caroline, she is taken by Blake Ravenscroft.  She goes along with the capture while being misidentified for a roof over her head....

Double, trouble this week with “The Taming of the Duke” and “Pleasure for Pleasure,” books three and four of the Essex Sisters series, by Eloisa James!!  Well, should we say it is a double-couple feature??  If you love secondary romances, you are in for a treat! Join us as we discuss how Imogen and Rafe each transforms to become better versions of themselves, and how a mustache stuck them together...

A Scottish gentleman arrives for the season with one sister’s eyes on him while another sister does not want his eyes on her in book two of the Essex Sisters series, Kiss Me, Annabel by Eloisa James. Ewan, the Earl of Ardmore, journeyed from up north to find a wife.  He may have the looks to catch a woman’s eyes, however he does not seem to have the funds to seal the deal. Miss Annabel Essex serve...

The Essex sisters arrived at the Duke of Holbrook’s estate as his wards in the first book of the Essex Sisters series, Much Ado About You by Eloisa James!!  However, can you call women-of-age wards?? Rafe, the Duke of Holbrook, expected young wards, but he got young-ish women.  Now, the nursemaids he hired suddenly became ladies maids and he is doing what he can to find them respectable matches wi...

Food is a love language in A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie by Vanessa Riley! Cecilia found an English stranger lurking around her home during a ball, and she decides to save him from the speculating questions of the soldiers.  Felton goes along with her stargazing fib and he promises Cecilia the adventure she craves by getting married. Married life was not blissful enough due to Felton’s wor...

The season is upon us and we revisit “The Viscount Who Loved Me” by Julia Quinn! We reviewed the featured book of Netflix’s Bridgerton Season two for our Season two, episode two. Join us as we discuss this enemies-to-lovers story and wonder about certain clips prior to watching the show.  What do you think Madame Delacroix and Lady Penelope Featherington are whispering about?? DRAWING ROOM DISCUSS...

Golden Angel intrigued us with her bio and latest release, “The Duke’s Pursuit,” and we cannot wait to read more from this New-to-Us author! Lady Philippa decides she has been in mourning long enough, so she attends the London season for physical activities, not love.  Everett, the Marquess of Hartington, finds himself in a wager with his rake of a friend, but he does not realize who the lucky lad...

Lady Isobel and the Marquess of Roth marry so they can live with some peace of mind, separately, in Amalie Howard’s “The Rakehell of Roth,” a Sleeping Beauty and Much Ado About Nothing retelling! Gently breed Lady Isobel marries someone she met and liked during her first season, which ensures her safety from a leech.  Her husband brings her to the country where his father, the duke, resides and le...

Lady Astrid storms into the Thane’s home for a different kind of rescue mission in Amalie Howard’s “The Beast of Beswick,” a Beauty and the Beast and The Taming of the Shrew retelling! Astrid fears for her younger sister Isobel because her past has returned in book one of the Everleigh Sisters series.  To keep her sister safe, she rides to the man everyone rides away from for help. War hero Thane...