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A review by rjordan19
The Wolf and The Wildflower by Stacy Reid
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? Probably more character focused
When mains are first on page together: It felt like forever before they were on page together. 18% or chapter 3.
Cliffhanger: No, this ends on a happily ever after
Epilogue: Not labeled as such, but there’s a few paragraphs in the last chapter a year and a few months after the story
Format: listened to audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
The Duke must learn to not smell people in public, or even in private. He must absolutely learn this.”
Should I read in order?
I think this is a stand alone?
Basic plot:
When the Duke of Wulverton returns to society after living in the wild for a decade, psychologist Jules Southby gets an opportunity to help acclimate him.
Give this a try if you want:
- Victorian time period (1884)
- Tarzan vibes
- Duke hero
- psychologist heroine
- heroine dressed as a lad
- hero has a sensitivity to touch and avoids it
- house party
- secret identity
- hero needs a wife
- medium steam – 4 scenes but I felt like they were on the shorter side?
First line:
The heat in the bedroom was stifling, the pain twisting through Mrs. Miranda Southby’s more brutal than the last few times she’d in the childbed.
My thoughts:
I think this is my 4th book by Reid and 3 just haven’t worked for me. I am so sad this one didn’t work for me. Tarzan is one of my favorite stories and I really thought I’d like this! What is wrong with me??? I enjoyed a novella I tried by Reid but since then the other ones I’ve tried have fallen flat for me and not given me romantic feelings of good tension.
I did struggle with how the mains weren’t on page together for the first 1/5th of the book – but I felt like I was still into both of their plot lines so it was okay. It’s totally bonkers in a way I loved – the hero has been missing for a decade and is found after living in the wilderness in the Yukon. The heroine has been pretending to be a man her entire life to protect her mother from having to birth another child. Some really strong characters coming together and thank goodness our heroine dressed up as a lad and got her psychology degree because obviously everyone in this story needs some therapy.
I thought maybe I was having a narrator disconnect. Unfortunately I wasn’t a fan of this narrator’s male voices. But even when I switched to kindle version, it just did not grab me. There was quite a bit of focus on the characters internally and they each had their own sets of family issues I think they were working on. I wanted the mains alone together a lot more than they were. The steam just didn’t make me feel things – the acts themselves were great but for me it was missing the emotion I needed to connect to them. I felt like I understood the hero’s desire to not be touched after what he had gone through, but the fact that it’s just fine for the heroine to touch him kind of bothered me. I guess I wanted to feel how wrecked he was by her touch. Both of them needed it – our heroine after hiding as a man her whole life and keeping people at a distance and our hero for living in the woods...It should have absolutely wrecked both of them. But I didn’t feel that.
Maybe my expectations got to high in this one when I picked up Tarzan vibes. I will keep trying Reid, I know I will really love one of her books! I did like the way the ending turned out overall, though I’m still a bit mad at both of her parents...
Endearments
Hero calls the heroine ‘wallflower’.
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- difficult childbirth on page
- *almost * forced breeding of heroine’s mother – she fears for her life if she gets pregnant again
- some pretty big lies – heroine’s mother raises her as a man so she doesn’t have to have another baby
- remembrance of hero having to live in the wild and its repercussions
- themes of overcoming ‘savagery’ and those aspects being seen as extremely negative
- scenes of hunting/cooking animals
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex: Hero pulls out
52% - kisses
58% - 🔥 kisses, fingering/oral for her in the tree house
He arched her and licked along the curve of her throat.
“My mouth is aching to taste you…”
“You are tasting me,” she whispered, surrendering to the madness surging between them.
“Did you forget I want to lick you everywhere, Wildflower?”
66% - kiss
74% - 🔥 kisses, oral for her,sex (missionary?)
“I love for your touch, James.”
“Good, because I ache to consume you and fear I might fall on you like a savage beast.”
A sharp ache stabbed downward through her womb and along her inner thighs. “Fall on me,” she whispered. “I want that...I want you.”
79% - 🔥 fingering/oral for her (very brief) and then he takes her against a tree
A hungry little whimper broke from Jules when he pushed her against the rough bark of a tree and shoved his hand between their tightly fitted bodies.
85% - 🔥 kiss at the brothel, blow job, him behind her, then missionary on the chaise lounge
James was not a man who thought of the future. Nothing mattered but the present. But as he cupped her cheeks and took her mouth once more with his, he thought that if he could do this tomorrow...and the next day and the next...the unexpected could be searched for.
Readability: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? Probably more character focused
When mains are first on page together: It felt like forever before they were on page together. 18% or chapter 3.
Cliffhanger: No, this ends on a happily ever after
Epilogue: Not labeled as such, but there’s a few paragraphs in the last chapter a year and a few months after the story
Format: listened to audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
The Duke must learn to not smell people in public, or even in private. He must absolutely learn this.”
Should I read in order?
I think this is a stand alone?
Basic plot:
When the Duke of Wulverton returns to society after living in the wild for a decade, psychologist Jules Southby gets an opportunity to help acclimate him.
Give this a try if you want:
- Victorian time period (1884)
- Tarzan vibes
- Duke hero
- psychologist heroine
- heroine dressed as a lad
- hero has a sensitivity to touch and avoids it
- house party
- secret identity
- hero needs a wife
- medium steam – 4 scenes but I felt like they were on the shorter side?
First line:
The heat in the bedroom was stifling, the pain twisting through Mrs. Miranda Southby’s more brutal than the last few times she’d in the childbed.
My thoughts:
I think this is my 4th book by Reid and 3 just haven’t worked for me. I am so sad this one didn’t work for me. Tarzan is one of my favorite stories and I really thought I’d like this! What is wrong with me??? I enjoyed a novella I tried by Reid but since then the other ones I’ve tried have fallen flat for me and not given me romantic feelings of good tension.
I did struggle with how the mains weren’t on page together for the first 1/5th of the book – but I felt like I was still into both of their plot lines so it was okay. It’s totally bonkers in a way I loved – the hero has been missing for a decade and is found after living in the wilderness in the Yukon. The heroine has been pretending to be a man her entire life to protect her mother from having to birth another child. Some really strong characters coming together and thank goodness our heroine dressed up as a lad and got her psychology degree because obviously everyone in this story needs some therapy.
I thought maybe I was having a narrator disconnect. Unfortunately I wasn’t a fan of this narrator’s male voices. But even when I switched to kindle version, it just did not grab me. There was quite a bit of focus on the characters internally and they each had their own sets of family issues I think they were working on. I wanted the mains alone together a lot more than they were. The steam just didn’t make me feel things – the acts themselves were great but for me it was missing the emotion I needed to connect to them. I felt like I understood the hero’s desire to not be touched after what he had gone through, but the fact that it’s just fine for the heroine to touch him kind of bothered me. I guess I wanted to feel how wrecked he was by her touch. Both of them needed it – our heroine after hiding as a man her whole life and keeping people at a distance and our hero for living in the woods...It should have absolutely wrecked both of them. But I didn’t feel that.
Maybe my expectations got to high in this one when I picked up Tarzan vibes. I will keep trying Reid, I know I will really love one of her books! I did like the way the ending turned out overall, though I’m still a bit mad at both of her parents...
Endearments
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- difficult childbirth on page
- *almost * forced breeding of heroine’s mother – she fears for her life if she gets pregnant again
- some pretty big lies – heroine’s mother raises her as a man so she doesn’t have to have another baby
- remembrance of hero having to live in the wild and its repercussions
- themes of overcoming ‘savagery’ and those aspects being seen as extremely negative
- scenes of hunting/cooking animals
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex:
52% - kisses
58% - 🔥 kisses, fingering/oral for her in the tree house
He arched her and licked along the curve of her throat.
“My mouth is aching to taste you…”
“You are tasting me,” she whispered, surrendering to the madness surging between them.
“Did you forget I want to lick you everywhere, Wildflower?”
66% - kiss
74% - 🔥 kisses, oral for her,sex (missionary?)
“I love for your touch, James.”
“Good, because I ache to consume you and fear I might fall on you like a savage beast.”
A sharp ache stabbed downward through her womb and along her inner thighs. “Fall on me,” she whispered. “I want that...I want you.”
79% - 🔥 fingering/oral for her (very brief) and then he takes her against a tree
A hungry little whimper broke from Jules when he pushed her against the rough bark of a tree and shoved his hand between their tightly fitted bodies.
85% - 🔥 kiss at the brothel, blow job, him behind her, then missionary on the chaise lounge
James was not a man who thought of the future. Nothing mattered but the present. But as he cupped her cheeks and took her mouth once more with his, he thought that if he could do this tomorrow...and the next day and the next...the unexpected could be searched for.