Lit Wallflowers Podcast

By monthly…weekly…daily demands, Laine and Meg of Plot Trysts are back for a Ravenels bonus!  Were our earlier theories correct?  Join us as we discuss the polarizing Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas! Plot Trysts - www.facebook.com/plottrysts www.instagram.com/plottrysts www.twitter.com/plottrysts Website https://linktr.ee/plottrysts Featuring – Lisa Kleypas Devil in Disguis Ravenels series www.l...

Lisa Kleypas has done it again with Devil in Disguise.  Sigh! What calms big, mean, whisky-soaked Scotsman Keir MacRae?  Instant attraction with Lady Merritt Sterling and her table syrup ways.   They both know it is not a good idea to even have dinner together, however they cannot seem to stay away from each other.  Then an attempt to see Merry again, turned into another attempted murder which had...

This week, we’re reviewing (while Tom is) “Chasing Cassandra” by Lisa Kleypas! We love Tom!  The man who said he had a total of five emotions, however every time he does something great for Cassandra, more emotions were shown.  He’s even showing emotion to his youngest employee, but he doesn’t know it yet. From the moment Tom saw Cassandra, he was a goner.  Time apart only made the heart grow fond...

How often do people’s lives cross paths without knowing it?  In Lisa Kleypas’ Ravenels meet the Wallflowers story, the “Devil’s Daughter” met her hot farmer through her intended. The devil’s queen told their children that “kindness counts the most when it’s given to people who don’t deserve it.”  It’s something Phoebe always remembered especially when she met her deceased husband’s childhood bully...

Where can we get a summoning whistle like in Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas? Two years has passed since Dr. Garrett Gibson and Ethan Ransom met while she was fighting off attackers.  They took the next step when Ransom gave Garrett a whistle to blow when she needed him.  They both knew she can protect herself, but who wouldn’t want to see their preferred gentleman walking around the corner towards...

The season brought together the peculiar and the perfect for holy matrimony in Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Spring! We love Gabriel’s pursuit of Pandora.  It was a settee that actually compromised her, however her quirks charmed him into forgetting his original plan of finding someone else for her to marry. We love Pandora and her pursuit to fulfill her board game business.  With Gabriel’s ability to pr...

We would say “yes” to Marrying Winterborne!  Who wouldn’t want to say “I do” to Lisa Kleypas’ Rhys? Rhys Winterborne is amazing, full stop!  We met the restless department store owner in Cold-Hearted Rake and we met the ultimatum making man in this book. Our plant sister, Helen Ravenel didn’t want to let go of the Welshman and finally did something naughty.  She restored her betrothal and got a sm...

We’re kicking off #HotEarlSummer and a new series with newly dubbed Earl of Trenear, Devon, from Lisa Kleypas’ Ravenels series! Devon and his brother didn’t have a nurtured upbringing and spent most of their adult days being libertines.  The last thing Devon expected was to inherit an earldom with huge debts. Widowed through the previous earl, Kathleen awaited what the new earl will do with her an...

A fake marriage turned real, real quick in “Jewel” by Beverly Jenkins! Jewel Crowley made a promise to her mother to take care of her father and her brothers until they marry.  That promise was broken when Eli Grayson needed a favor. In order for an investor to get Eli’s gazette back in business, he needed to be married yesterday.  Jewel agreed after some begging, but they didn’t expect the announ...

We’re off to Grayson Grove this series where Nate Grayson wants to play doctor with the new doctor, Viveca Lancaster, in “Vivid” by Beverly Jenkins! Strong, independent, and determined Viveca aka Vivid had a unique meet cute with mayor Nate Grayson involving a rifle.  He believed that she didn’t belong in Michigan because of her city woman looks, let alone women can’t be doctors. An arrangement al...

Our heart was ripped out in Maya Rodale’s “What a Wallflower Wants” and “The Bad Boy Billionaire’s What a Girl Wants” novella! Prude Prudence was not a prude so much as being protective of herself and her compromising secret!  Another secret Pru kept was her intended marriage to someone who she knows she’ll be safe with and who won’t touch her.  That plan was squashed and she found herself alone a...

It’s time to loosen up in Maya Rodale’s “Wallflower Gone Wild” and “The Bady Boy Billionaire’s Girl Gone Wild” novella! Lady Olivia Archer locked eyes with a handsome stranger, only to be who her parents chose as her betrothed.  Phinn, the Mad Baron, was not a prospect she wanted because of the rumors attached to him. The Mad Baron apparently had a big heart and was very sweet towards Olivia.  He...

We’re looking through a historical and modern lens of the same story in Maya Rodale’s Bad Boys and Wallflowers series, starting with “ The Wicked Wallflower” and “The Bad Boy Billionaire’s Wicked Arrangement!" Emma and her besties need to find husbands before their finishing school reunion.  While brainstorming, a fake engagement announcement was written as a joke… the alcohol made them do it...

We’re searching for past memories in “An Earl, the Girl, and a Toddler” by Vanessa Riley! We met Jemina St. Maur who has amnesia in the first book of the series “Rogues and Remarkable Women.”  While Daniel was saving someone for the Widow’s Grace, he found Jemina and saved her too. For two years, Jemina had been trying to remember her past.  With her best friend, she broke into Daniel’s office and...

Snooping and scheduling were in store for a baby’s well-being in “A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby” by Vanessa Riley! Patience needed to be patient in order to hold her baby forever, but a mother’s devotion has her breaking the Widow’s Grace rules. The new duke moves in to take care of his ward and to establish new household rules and regulations to assure Lionel’s care.  While Patience acts as the we...

The dove got away, but returned a sparrow in “The Day of the Duchess” by Sarah MacLean!  We read about Haven in the first book of the series.  He was pushed into a fishpond and we found out the internal reason that led to him getting wet in this book. Seraphina flew into Parliament looking for a divorce, to be free, and so begins Haven’s groveling. The Talbot sisters were in full force supporting...

The kilted Duke of Warnick is in town in “A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean! Warnick was the 17th in line when he inherited a dukedom.  It was five years later when he found out he had an adult ward.  If he didn’t brush off his solicitor, pretending not to care about the title, then he would have known earlier.  His ward, Lillian, made the scandal sheets after a faux reveal of a nude portrait by...

We’re road tripping this week with author and bookstagrammer Angeleke Kaldis as we explore “The Rogue Not Taken” by Sarah MacLean, the first book of the Scandal & Scoundrel series! Sophie Talbot was one of the “Dangerous Daughters” aka “Spoiled S’s,” but she would always stand up for others, especially her family.  She’d rather be in a library or out with a book than be attending a ton activit...

Wendy and Toni are back with lots of groveling in “Once Upon a Tower” and in the “With this Kiss” novella by Eloisa James! Gowan fell in love at first sight with the quiet Edie at a ball.  Edie was quiet because she had a fever.  After corresponding, which mentioned pricks, they got married and journeyed home to Scotland.  Both being novices at love and being young, they had a lot of growing to do...

This week, Wendy and Toni reviewed transformations happening in “The Ugly Duchess” and the “Seduced by a Pirate” novella by Eloisa James! Theodora and James have been friends since childhood, since his father, the duke, was entrusted with her care since her father’s passing.  Then his father’s embezzling of Theodora aka Daisy’s dowry due to his bad investments led to his demand for James to marry...

Wendy and Toni probably wouldn’t have been able to feel a pea under layers of mattresses hence they won’t pass the ultimate Princess/Duchess test.  Hopefully, they would be able to feel a key for their freedom like in Eloisa James’s “The Duke is Mine.” Sometimes, we’re put in situations that we can’t control or can’t politely escape from.  Long before Olivia Lytton was born, she was bred to become...

This week, Wendy and Toni are reviewing “When Beauty Tamed the Beast” and “Winning the Wallflower” by Eloisa James! We enjoy a Beauty and the Beast retelling, and it was great to have a surly doctor inspired by the TV series “House” for a beast!  Linnet left the London life for the sea pool of Wales and for her betrothed, Piers, whose father claims he can’t sire children, so her compromised status...

Wendy and Toni are reviewing Eloisa James’s Fairy Tales series starting with “A Kiss at Midnight” and the novella “Storming the Castle!” We get pet dogs instead of cute rats in this re-telling of the classic fairy tale “Cinderella.”  Instead of trying to get into a ball, Kate was trying to get out of one.  Oh, we have a stepmother, but we only got the kinder stepsister with a twist.  All Kate has...

Wendy and Toni are back with a made-up Captain who is ready to marry the woman who drew him snails on her letters in “When a Scot Ties the Knot” by Tessa Dare!  Clever and shy Miss Maddie Gracechurch had the best idea to make up a fake fiancé to escape having a season.  Her awkwardness didn’t have to be present in the ballrooms, but can be read in her letters to her Captain Logan MacKenzie.  Even...

This week, Toni and Wendy each wish they had cake and a quizzing glass when reading “Say Yes to the Marquess” by Tessa Dare! Miss Clio Whitmore eventually turned into Miss Wait-more within her eight years of waiting for her betrothed to return from duty to crown and country.  Tired of waiting, she visited the brother to her fiancé to sign dissolution of engagement papers.  Although Rafe had feelin...