The Bowmans have traveled to London after utterly failing on the New York social scene, aiming to catch aristocratic husbands for the two daughters, thus uniting their money with a bit of class and respectability. His mother is a classic dragon, though, and figures into the end game in a critical way.īy contrast, Lillian is new money and American. His sisters seem like interesting characters, but they don’t get nearly enough screen time (and I still can’t figure out if they have prior novels that I’ve somehow missed or not). I found myself wishing his family had been fleshed out a bit more - they’re important and yet periphery at the same time, which is an odd combination. Progressive as his economic views are, however, personally, he’s turned into a stoic, unyielding man, due in great part to his upbringing.
An aristocrat who knows that he must move with the times or get left behind, Westcliff focuses himself on finding ways to use his inherited wealth and status to integrate himself with the new, industrial world. Westcliff represents the old guard in some ways, though he’s innovative and progressive in others.
The cards were stacked in its favour from the beginning.Īs in Secrets of a Summer Night (and many of her other historical romances), Kleypas complicates her love story with the realism of the society her characters live in. So, in some ways, It Happened One Autumn was almost too easy for me to like. Anyone who read my review of Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me has already witnessed how strongly this sort of relationship will attract me in a romance novel. Han/Leia, Indy/Marion, Beatrice/Benedick, Dimitri/Anya - my sexual awakening was characterised by this dynamic. I’m a sucker for this trope, and I freely admit that. Lillian Bowman and Marcus, Lord Westcliff have fought like cats and dogs since the moment they laid eyes on each other, which in romance novel terms clearly indicates that they are meant to be together. However, because there’s a twist to how it happens that I wouldn’t want to give away, and because it affects the next book in the series, Devil in Winter, I will place a mild spoiler warning on this review. The characters on the back cover are going to end up Happily-Ever-After. Spoiler Warning: I generally find it very silly to put spoiler warnings on romance novels, because the outcome is pre-determined. Title: It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers #2)
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