Product Details

• Published on: 2006-11-08
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 437 pages

Customer Reviews

A lovely ending to the series
And finally Daisy gets her turn...in the last book of the Wallflower quartet, Daisy Bowman meets her hero.

Daisy is the whimsical wallflower, always away with the fairies and with her nose stuck in a book. Her father, getting fed up with her failure to snag a husband, issues an ultimatum - find one quickly, or he'll see to it that she marries Matthew Swift, his protege in business.

Naturally, Daisy isn't happy about this (it would be a very short book otherwise) and her sister Lillian (now Lady Westcliff) adds her very vocal condemnations of Mr Swift...but wouldn't you know it? When Mr Swift turns up at the house party at the Westcliffs, he is no longer quite as odious as Daisy remembers...and unbeknownst to Daisy, he has been yearning for her for years, although he cannot give into that yearning due to a dark secret from his past. With the two of them thrown together at the house party, can they both fight the growing attraction between them?

This is a charming and well paced read that rounds off the series well, though I do find that it repeats the pattern of book number two (Lillian and Marcus) with the competitiveness between Daisy and Matthew, how they fight the attraction and the addition of a rival suitor to spur the hero into action. That's not really much of a criticism - Daisy is bound to be similar to her sister in some ways, and it's still a lovely story.

It's nice to visit with the other Wallflowers again; though I might have wished for more of Evie and Sebastian St Vincent, it wouldn't have added much to the storyline. As I have mentioned in a previous review, I do like that Kleypas keeps it relevant when characters from a previous book appear.


For info: The order that the books are written in is:
Secrets of a Summer Night
It Happened One Autumn
Devil in Winter
Scandal in Spring
I would recommend reading them in order.

Scandal in Spring
I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to reading this book. I loved Devil in Winter and knew that it was going to be impossible to beat plus I had been hoping that Daisy would end up with Mr. Rohan, the gypsy from Devil in Winter. However, I was pleasantly surprised by Matthew and Daisy's story.

I enjoyed Scandal in Spring although there wasn't much real scandal. Mr. Swift was a decent enough hero. There were quite a few funny scenes and the love scenes were tastefully done. The only problem I had with the whole story was Lillian. I found her to be annoying and I wish that the other two wallflowers had appeared more instead of her.

Overall, it was a nice end to the Wallflower stories.

Enjoyable
Failed in husband hunting in the last two years, Daisy was finally told by her father that if she did not find a husband by the end of spring, which was in less than 2 months, she would be married off to his confidant, Mr. Matthew Swift, a bag of bones, and sent back to New York, away from her sister Lillian. When asked "What is wrong with him?" by Lillian's husband Lord Westcliffe, the sisters were in unison to answer "Every thing is wrong with him!" Mortified, as Mr. Swift was the last man in the world that she wanted as a husband, she and Lillian would do anything to prevent that to happen...

When I saw the book with somewhat a larger print than the previous Wallflower Quartet series, a doubt crossed my mind. However, Ms. Kleypas did not fail my expectation. In fact, I read it within a day.