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Temptations of a Wallflower by Eva Leigh
4.0
Wallflower virgin heroine Lady Sarah, daughter of a Duke, is happy to lead a quite life where she goes largely unnoticed. After all, it helps her cultivate her career as a writer of filthy stories under the pseudonym of Lady of Dubious Quality.
Jeremy, a Vicar, forced as the third son of an Earl into service to the Church, has been tasked by his morally self-righteous father into uncovering the true identity of the filth writer. Unbeknownst to his dictatorial father, he owns every book written by this author and finds himself increasingly bored in his life as a vicar.
When the two cross paths and find themselves attracted to each other, each is harboring a secret, her about her secret identity and him about his assignment to bring down the very woman he is falling for (though he very much of course doesn’t realize this until much later).
I liked a lot about this book but there was one glaring misstep in my opinion. I do wish when Sarah decides to give up her writing so that she may have Jeremy instead and he so happily accepts, that he had not done so. She is deeply unhappy and comes to the realization that without her writing, she cannot be her true self and decides she’d rather have that even at the cost of Jeremy. I do wish that Jeremy had insisted that she be her authentic self because it does make it seem like for a time he forced her to choose between her true self and her love for him and I think if he truly loved her as she did him, he would have accepted all of her. Regardless, I still enjoyed the story.
Jeremy, a Vicar, forced as the third son of an Earl into service to the Church, has been tasked by his morally self-righteous father into uncovering the true identity of the filth writer. Unbeknownst to his dictatorial father, he owns every book written by this author and finds himself increasingly bored in his life as a vicar.
When the two cross paths and find themselves attracted to each other, each is harboring a secret, her about her secret identity and him about his assignment to bring down the very woman he is falling for (though he very much of course doesn’t realize this until much later).
I liked a lot about this book but there was one glaring misstep in my opinion. I do wish when Sarah decides to give up her writing so that she may have Jeremy instead and he so happily accepts, that he had not done so. She is deeply unhappy and comes to the realization that without her writing, she cannot be her true self and decides she’d rather have that even at the cost of Jeremy. I do wish that Jeremy had insisted that she be her authentic self because it does make it seem like for a time he forced her to choose between her true self and her love for him and I think if he truly loved her as she did him, he would have accepted all of her. Regardless, I still enjoyed the story.