Wallflower Gone Wild

By: Maya Rodale

Narrated by: Carolyn Morris

In the second in Maya Rodale's delightful Wallflower series, London's least likely to cause a scandal is taking society by storm.…

Being good has worked out very badly for Lady Olivia Archer. All she has to show for four seasons on the marriage mart is the nickname Prissy Missy. Her prospects are so bleak that her parents have betrothed her to a stranger with a dire reputation. If Phinneas Cole - aka The Mad Baron - wants a biddable bride, perhaps Olivia can frighten him off by breaking every ladylike rule.

Phinn has admired Olivia's poise and refinement from afar...qualities that appear to have vanished now that they are officially engaged. This Olivia is flirtatious, provocative, and wickedly irresistible. She's not at all the woman he bargained for, yet she's the only one he wants.

He's determined to woo her. She's determined to resist. But Olivia is discovering there's nothing so appealing as a fiancé who's mad, bad, and dangerously seductive.…

©2014 Maya Rodale (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

Fun listen

Fair warning: You do have to start the series from the beginning. But what fun it is! Good characters, good narration, fun plot. The series also ties into another of Rodale's, which is also great fun.

this could have been a great story if not for the

struggled to finish, more importantly I didn't which just makes me mad, as its a waste of time and money. I get the angst of two heart's the derision of mindset etc but for the love of a story let the heroine have at least a brain

2nd listen to 2nd in the trilogy!

Doesn't that say it all??? It's still a wonderful adventure the 2nd time around. Book #1 (i listened to it again just yesterday!) was wonderful and I loved really getting to know even more about the wallflowers in this book. Emma and her husband (name with held as to avoid a spoiler) are present as is Prudence. Olivia's story was much deeper than we knew and learning about her was entertaining. I will now go listen to #3 again....

NARRATOR : I truly enjoy Carolyn Morris's performance, I always do. Her characters are well defined. Even from book to book the voices are the same and you always know exactly who is speaking. There isn't anything negative to say.

CREDITWORTHY? : YES!

HEAT FACTOR: A very low simmer....

I really liked it!

I am really enjoying this series so far. The characters are great, The Hero and Heroine are strong with great chemistry and sexual tension. Lots of dialogue, (I like lots of dialogue in my books). Nice well written sex scenes and an enjoyable story.

All in all it has all the elements I enjoy in a book.

The narrator did a great job. everyone had their own voice and she did a great job on the men's voices.

Lots of redundancy

I liked the first book in the series but Olivia was pretty whiny and childish, and I found that she in particular kept saying / thinking the same thing over and over. Needed some better editing. I liked Phin though.

A bit of a disappointment

After reading the first book in this series I rushed to get this one, anticipating the same enjoyment. Sadly, I was disappointed.

Olivia was annoying. Although not as totally annoying as her parents, she needed to grow up. Phinn, on the other hand, was adorable and his social ineptness, if you will, made for some not-so-helpful advice from a friend that made me smile.

The humor in the first book was lacking here. The audiobook had some production issues but, overall, the narration was quite good. Not my favorite in the series; I'm hoping Pru's story returns to the quality of Emma's in Book 1.

Good but got a little repetitive

The story was good but it kind of got repetitive and I feel like some of the story could’ve been taken out as it got annoying after a while when the heroine kept complaining

Immature Heroine w/ too much childish imagination

I really wanted to like this book, but the character REALLY needed to grow up.

Average

Setting: London, 1851
Genre: Romance
It will be the 100th anniversary of Lady Penelope's Finishing School, and in all that time, no girl has attended unmarried in her 4th season. But it looks likely to be a record broken by Lady Olivia Archer, AKA Prissy Missy, one of London's "Least Likely". In her case, Least Likely to Cause a Scandal. Her head is filled with "young ladies shouldn't" rules from her mother who, by the way, dogs her footsteps at every social event, trying to get her a husband. Phinn, having come to London to build a machine to show at the great exhibition and to find a wife, considers half of his mission complete when he sees Olivia. She is quiet, biddable, and totally opposite to his late wife. She won't, he surmises, interfere with his scientific work. He offers for Olivia without even a formal introduction, and she is horrified when her parents accept his suit. He is known as the Mad Baron, rumored to have killed his wife. Before meeting him, she decides to discourage him by taking part in scandalous behavior, which shocks him, but ends up actually engaging his interest. The plot revolves around the mystery of his past and their adjustment to one another. Olivia really comes into herself when she breaks out of the "young ladies shouldn't" mold.
I really WANT to like Maya Rodale's novels more, but I can't say any of them rate more (or less) than average. I get impatient with the whole misunderstanding/lack of communication trope. I know this is used as a plot device in many books, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Her characters are quite likable, so it's too bad they're caught in poorly executed plots.
Carolyn Morris is not in the list of my favorite narrators. There was nothing either terribly irritating, nor exceptional about her performance. Truly, I just finished the book, and I can't tell you whether or not she differentiated characters. I do know that, although Phinn was from Yorkshire, she did not give him a regional accent . That would have cranked her up to high average or even above.
Although this book was slightly disappointing, I'll get the next one just to find out what happens with Prudence, but probably on Kindle rather than using one of my Audible credits.

Silly and boring

Good narration but the female lead was silly and stupid. Male lead was bland as was story line. Very boring. Had trouble finishing it.