Worse book I ever read. The characters were so shallow that you couldn't like them. The writing was so redundant that it got sickening reading it. And the "hero" was just a bad person with no good qualities who forched himself on an innocent girl. It was just an aweful book. I couldn't finish it it was so bad.

The problem with reading a series of books one after the other is that the similarities become annoying. The intimate scenes all come from the exact same playbook which takes away from the individuality of the heroes. I know Romance is a particular genre, but I like it to be laced with some believability.

Very sweet, adorable book. I like that there is a strong element of friendship in this series. I will miss the wallflowers now that I'm done reading the series.

The first thing one notices about this conclusion to Lisa Kleypas' awesome Wallflowers series is how short it is. It also centers around a brand-new heroine who has had no parts in any of the other novels. For these two reasons, I really thought I wasn't going to like this book as much as I did. Not to be cliche, but it was short and sweet.

The book centers on Rafe Bowman, brother to Daisy and Lillian, who gets an ultimatum from his father to either marry Natalie, a well-bred English lady, or to lose his share of the Bowman's huge amounts of money. Instead of Natalie, he becomes completely captured with Hannah, who is of plainer stock. Natalie, of course, sees him as an ill-behaved, American rake. While this center storyline is occurring, readers get a kind of "what are they doing now?" look into the lives of the previous Wallflowers. Although this book takes place almost right after the last, it was really nice to get a glimpse into those characters who we have grown really attached to.

Lisa Kleypas did a really nice job of joining a new story with glimpses into the current lives of the previous Wallflowers. The new characters were well thought-out and the old kept the same traits that made us love them in the first place. Overall, it was a really satisfying companion to the series and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has read the prior books.

At this point, you just know Lillian is Lisa Kleypas’s favorite character. At times the author is so focus on making her the center that I felt bad for Annabelle’s character. At least Evie got a chapter about her husband coming back. Annabelle got zero privacy or chapter about reuniting with her husband. It happened in front of everyone with no kiss. I also felt for Daisy too. She got no POV section or chapter in this one.

As for Rafe and Hannah, they were there. Overall, not the Wallflower Christmas book I was hoping we would get. I shouldn’t be surprised by it.

file this hero under problematic fave

I really don't understand what Hannah saw in this spoiled, arrogant bully. You should have let your cousin have him Hannah!

I loved meeting the wallflowers though!