{"id":2920,"date":"2018-10-30T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:20:51","slug":"book-review-wicked-and-the-wallflower-by-sarah-maclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35695972-wicked-and-the-wallflower\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1515028066m\/35695972.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Wicked and the Wallflower (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35695972-wicked-and-the-wallflower\">Wicked and the Wallflower<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1598076.Sarah_MacLean\">Sarah MacLean<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2557027289\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from my Goodreads shelves, I read a lot of Regency romances. I love them&#8211;they are light, frothy, and &#8220;spoiler alert&#8221; always have a happy ending. :). Occasionally, one comes along that has more depth than normal in this genre of lightheartedness and deserves a special mention. &#8220;Wicked and the Wallflower&#8221; is one of those books.<br \/>\nTo begin with, the heroine is plain (but smart). This is a fairly normal anomaly in a genre where the heroine is usually&#8211;but not always&#8211;beautiful. But the hero is dark (ethically, not just physically) and climbed out of the gutter through sheer force of will and brains. This is not a &#8220;good girl reforms bad boy&#8221; plot. This is a &#8220;good girl joins bad boy&#8221; plot. That&#8217;s an unusual anomaly. I adored it.<br \/>\nThe backstory has complexity, the banter between the hero and heroine is charming, and the entire book has unsuspected depth. It&#8217;s as if a Georgette Heyer Regency romance married a C.S. Harris Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, and they had a child (who was happy).<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait for the second book in the series!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean My rating: 4 of 5 stars As you can tell from my Goodreads shelves, I read a lot of Regency romances. I love them&#8211;they are light, frothy, and &#8220;spoiler alert&#8221; always have a happy ending. :). Occasionally, one comes along that has more depth than normal in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,181,182,501],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-regency-romances","tag-romances","tag-sarah-maclean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-L6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}