Over the past few months, I've been trying to read author backlists and not focus so heavily on ARCs and new releases. And, I've also been in a big historical romance book phase (HR isn't dead!!!!!) so of course I had to read some Lisa Kleypas books.

I started with the Wallflowers because, well, why not? 

I love a series about friendship, especially a group of women who lift each other up, celebrate wins, commiserate and support, and show up for the big and small moments. 
The whole series delivers this, and I love this for the characters, and also for readers who can see how great friendship can be. 

I enjoyed this book, for the most part. Annabelle is slightly boring, but really started to come into her own throughout the book. Simon is brash and bossy and some of his comments were misogynistic and I didn’t like that (e.g., when he offered to make Annabelle his mistress and implying that she should be grateful for it).

This book has humour, emotions, tension, steam, and was overall a fun read. I definitely was excited to pick up the second book and continue to find out what happens with the Wallflowers!