Matthew and Daisy have some great chemistry, I really enjoyed the crochet scene. Matthew is very open and respectful from the start, so his growth does not come from any personal failings aside from being kind of an idiot about this “terrible secret” he has, and a realisation that he should have trusted Mr Bowman with it years earlier. He has strong, confident energy but not in the aggressive, closed off macho way that Westcliff and Simon Hunt begin with in the earlier novels. He is a very smart and savvy businessman, as well as somehow insanely buff simply by having a cook that feeds him well? (Sure). Matthew is also an American, he is the protégé of Daisy’s father and has been around the family for most of his adult life. And strangely precarious, as if she were balanced on the edge of a new kind of intimacy that went beyond the physical. I absolutely loved it! This felt so fresh and exciting after three books of sexual passivity and dubious consent! I just really needed this, thank you Lisa Kleypas!ĭaisy supposed she ought to feel ashamed, locking herself in his bedroom and demanding to be seduced. She actually flirts with him! She is the one that pursues him, she is the one that makes the first move, and she is the one that initiates sex. We don’t waste any time on a tired “enemies to lovers” type trope (we already did that with Lillian, after all). I loved that Daisy very quickly realises that her impression of Matthew is outdated and wrong, and that she is in fact very attracted to him.

Daisy is a dreamer who prefers her books and fantasies to the dull confines of her real life. What lets this one down is the big old anti-climax in the final act when his “deep dark secret” is revelated to be actually quite lame and not really that much of an issue, before a very rushed finale.Īs the other American sister, Daisy share some of the same brash and outspoken traits as Lillian but she is generally more empathetic and reasonable.

The Love Interest’s appearance felt quite forced but once we met him I did like him more than I expected. I always liked Daisy, certainty a lot more than I do her sister (see It Happened On Autumn), so I was glad to finally get to a book focused on her. I might be a bit fatigued by the formula by book four but I definitely appreciated the freedom of consent this book, and that we finally have a Wallflower who takes the lead in pursuing her man and acting on her own desires! To me this makes the sexy scenes a lot hotter.įinally it is Daisy Bowman’s turn to find her husband.

Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas