{"id":9750,"date":"2020-05-21T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:05:48","slug":"book-review-wallflower-wager-by-tessa-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/book-review-wallflower-wager-by-tessa-dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title: The Wallflower Wager<\/a> (Girl Meets Duke<\/a> #3)
Author: Tessa Dare<\/a>
Genre: Historical Romance
My rating: 5 of 5<\/a> Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tessa Dare is my ultimate book girlfriend. I met her once at an author and reader event and made a real dork of myself fangirling about her books as if she had never read them. I’m reasonably sure I didn’t have to supply the full name to my favorite hero of hers, Colin Sandhurst, but just in case. And now I have another book babe to gush and embarrass myself over should I ever reencounter Miss Dare, Mr. Gabriel Duke; the prickly industrialist who ruins the aristocracy just for the mighty pound sterling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have encountered Tessa Dare in the past, you will know that she loves strong, sassy female characters who have keen minds and unique skills and talents. Penny is only a member of the ton the way a platypus is a duck, by some silly word association and familial rumor. Penny is far more likely to be seen with a platypus than she is in a ballroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Even in the regency, flipping houses is an easy way to make money, and Gabriel Duke is using Lady Penelope as a feature to sell his newest Mayfair Mansion. Who wouldn’t want to live next to an Earl’s daughter? –The answer is soon apparent, anyone who opposes living next to a city farm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penny is living with a menagerie that Gabe must unload before he can unload his house. Still, while trying to rehome wayward, unwanted, and abandoned animals, he loses his head, his heart, and his desire to leave the company of Lady Penelope Campion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is charming and hilarious. You will laugh out loud at the antics of Tessa Dare’s characters. Rosamund and Daisy are back for another book, and Daisy is still obsessed with all things diseased and dying, and her visits to Penny are some of the highlights of the book. Too bad that they are outside the era Tessa Dare writes in because I would love to see the girls get their own HEAs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3)
Author: Tessa Dare
Genre: Historical Romance
Release Date:<\/strong> 13 August 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They call him the Duke of Ruin.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To an undaunted wallflower, he’s just the beast next door.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society\u2014and now he wants to get even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn\u2019t take into her home and her heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When her imposing\u2014and attractive\u2014new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She<\/em> will part with her precious charges, if he<\/em> can find them loving homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Done, Gabriel says. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a two-legged dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a foul-mouthed parrot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a goat, an otter, a hedgehog . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn\u2019t know a loving home from a workhouse. Soon he\u2019s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. Now she\u2019s set her mind and heart on saving him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not if he ruins her first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Tessa Dare:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tessa Dare is the New York Times<\/em> and USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of more than twenty historical romances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixing wit, sensuality, and emotion, Tessa writes Regency-set romance novels that feel relatable to modern readers. With her bestselling \u201cSpindle Cove\u201d, \u201cCastles Ever After\u201d, and \u201cGirl Meets Duke\u201d series, she has had great fun creating heroines who defy the conventions of their time\u2014engaging in \u201cunladylike\u201d pursuits that range from paleontology to beer-making\u2014and dreaming up the strong-willed, sexy heroes who find their hearts ensnared by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A librarian by training and a booklover at heart, Tessa makes her home in Southern California, where she lives with her husband, their two children, and a trio of cosmic kitties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Tessa Dare: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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