Why are the best books the hardest to review? I'm not sure I can come up with enough superlatives for this one, the second book in Lisa Kleypas's magical Wallflowers series. I think she hit the ball out of the park with this humorous, emotional, romantic read!

I had my doubts coming into this, after reading Secrets of a Summer Night. In that book Marcus, Lord Westcliff (most eligible bachelor in England), was such an uptight, humorless stick-in-the-mud--how was I going to fall for him in his own More...

This was a great second entry into the Wallflower series. I really enjoyed this story and I firmly believe that Lillian and Westcliff are soulmates. They are both strong, vital people who are not afraid to say what they think and do what they want to do. Westcliff is a very arrogant man and very opinionated. He came off as being a little bit snobby in some ways. Not in the sense that he was too good to associate with self-made men of working class origins. He was very forward-thinking in that ma More...

Wow! Another fun installment of The Wallflowers series.

I love the way Lisa Kleypas developes her characters. Subtly, without pages and pages of narrative descriptives. We learn about them by seeing them in action, or through the eyes of others.

It was such a joy to watch Marcus, Lord Westcliff, put aside the bitterness of his childhood, the will of his mother and the demands of his title and just allow himself to experience the emotions which, despite his best efforts, were awakened by Lillian Bo More...

5++ stars – Historical Romance

WOW! I loooved this second installment in Kleypas’s extraordinary Wallflowers series about four very different young ladies in Victorian era England society whose deep bond of friendship sustains them through the trials and tribulations of life, family, relationships, and love.

Wealthy American heiress Lillian Bowman is fiercely independent, strong-willed, feisty, daring, obstinate, brash, honest, outspoken, free-spirited, opinionated...pretty much everything lackin More...

After reading Lisa Kleypas’ previous books Again The Magic and Secrets of a Summer Night, I just had to read the second book in the Wallflower series called “It Happened One Autumn” which stars Lillian Bowman and Marcus, Lord Westcliff! “It Happened One Autumn” is so full of drama, romance one awesome hero and heroine team that any romance fan will eat this book up!

American heiress Lillian Bowman came to London along with her family to pursue a worthy husband of her status. However, Lillian seem More...

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Miss Annabelle Payton, Miss Lillian Bowman, Miss Evangeline Jenner and Miss Daisy Bowman are regular sights at the peripheral of a ballroom. Each young lady has their own difficulties making them untenable prospects to the bachelors of the ton. However, they strike up an unlikely friendship each vowing to help the others out to find a husband by means fair and foul. After Annabelle’s successful marriage to Mr Hunt, it is now the turn of the More...

First read March 10-12, 2010

Second read March 22-23, 2013

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Lilly & Marcus together.
I loved their immediate dislike of one other when they first met, and then their raging passion once they realized what it was they were really feeling.

Their characters are so alike. They're both strong-willed, confident, stubborn, intelligent, and extremely protective of the people they love. Once they spent some time together, it didm't take long for them to realize that there was an att More...

Another 5 star story from Kleypas' Wallflower series!

The quintessential domineering, opinionated and infuriating alpha up against a woman who is the farthest thing from a shrinking violet! These two butt heads from the first book and continue on in book 2 but when they get together they just just melt off the pages. The romance makes your eyes all watery and you're sighing so, so slowly with a choked voice: Ohhhh myyyyy gawwwwwwd **sigh, sigh sigh** (!!)

Excellent secondary characters too with th More...

I am glad to say that this book is another 5 stars from Kleypas' Wallflower series; and another book into my faves shelf.

I loved this book. It was amazing from the begining to the end. I must say that while in the first book I got infratuated with the story, in this one I did with the characters, Lillian and Marcus were perfect for each other. I really liked Lillian, I guess I must really like it when the woman is strong and doesn't back down because that was what I apreciated more from her pers More...

Depois de um início grácil com o primeiro livro: “Desejo Subtil”, seguimos caminho até outra Wallflower, desta vez Lillian Bowman que irá encontrar o amor em Marcus Westcliff, um homem que não suporta nem um pouco.

Sabendo de antemão que o casal não simpatizava um com o outro, suspeitei logo que a leitura fosse divertida e de facto, gostei muito mais de “Sedução Intensa” do que de “Desejo Subtil”, simplesmente porque eu adoro um bom romance com choque de personalidades!

A construção das personage More...

1st read: mar 28, 2012
2nd read: feb 14, 2013

still awesome.

4.5 stars

I really, really, really liked this one.

From the first book I could tell Lord Westcliff was a keeper, and I was not too happy he was going to be paired of with Lillian, as she wasn't shown to be the nicest kind of person in the first book.

she was shown in a much better light this time around, and I was glad to see that she and Lord Westcliff were perfectly suited :D. For two people who are so tactile, headstrong and feisty, th More...

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. I knew this was going to be good. Great even; I loved it.

{slightly spoilery}

Lillian Bowman is yet again stuck at a month-long house party at Lord Westcliff’s Hampshire estate. The last one resulted in the marriage of fellow-wallflower, Annabelle Payton. Lillian’s attempts at helping Annabelle find a husband made her an enemy in Marcus, Lord Westcliff. This is fine, because she doesn’t much like him either (“the pompous ass”) even though she has to admit; he is p More...

I did not think that Ms Kleypas could surpass 'Secrets of a Summer Night' but IT HAPPENED ONE AUTUMN, the second book in her Wallflowers series, is even better! The story of the brash American heiress, Lillian Bowman, and the ultra-reserved aristocrat, Marcus Marsden, Earl of Westcliff, it sparkles like vintage champagne!

Marcus is holding a month-long house party at his Hampshire estate, Stony Cross Park, and among his guests is the Bowman family. He is hoping to conclude a business deal with Th More...

Four Stars :)

"There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it’s because you’re so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire.” ~ Miss Lillian Bowman

I’m a huge fan of bickering couples, especially when they initially don’t like each other. Usually all that banter, all that pe More...

This one is my favorite Lisa Kleypas so far! I can't wait to read the rest. :)

Book 11 for my 50 Book Pledge was It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas. This book is the 2nd installment to the Wallflowers series.

I read the first installment, Secrets of a Summer Night in December and it was the first historical romance, or any romance novel which I had ever read. I never thought that I would enjoy this switch in genres; however, after reading the first of the Wallflowers series, I found myself really enjoying the company of the Wallflowers as well as the rest of the charac More...

Lisa é uma mulher multifacetada. Licenciada em Ciências Políticas, participou no concurso Miss América de 1985 como Miss Massachussets, tendo conquistado o jurí ao cantar uma música cuja letra foi composta por ela, vencendo assim um prémio de talento que está exposto na sua estante ainda hoje. Este foi um dos muitos prémios que Lisa ganhou ao longo da vida mas é o único que nada tem a ver com a carreira que acabou por seguir: escritora. Aos vinte e um anos publicou o seu primeiro livro e iniciou More...

I don't know which Wallflower book is my favorite- this one or Devil in Winter. This book has two very realistic characters and a romance that was gradual, exciting, and funny.

Lillian: My feelings about her are exactly what other characters in the series describe her as. She was not very easy to like. She's stubborn, rebellious, and many times rude and exasperating. Now don't get me wrong, I like a heroine with a spine, and Lillian has one of steel- but her cynicism and rather hardened personali More...

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Lord Westcliff is sooo yummy!

What a great read this was! Lillian is my favorite wallflower so far! I love her personality and her witty humor and sharp tongue. She doesn't beat around the bush and says it like it is. My kind of girl! I knew in the last book she would be paired with Lord Westcliff and I couldn't wait to see how that would unfold.

A couple of lines that I enjoyed were-

"Sorry, mis," the maid murmured, assuming that she had pinned a lock of hair too tightly.
"It's More...

Well, that was intense...

Again: so romantic. Lisa Kleypas you melt my heart.

This book tells the story of the second wallflower scheduled to get a husband, Miss Lillian Bowman. She's filthy rich, very spirited, extremely sharp-tongued, and an American, an American husband-hunting in Victorian England, and her parents will have nothing else than an aristocrat for son-in-law - poor Lillian. Not really, for she manages to get the attention of the most eligible bachelor around, Marcus Westcliff, who More...

It's kind of obvious that Pride and Prejudice must have been a huge inspiration for this book. There's a feisty heroine with an embarrassingly pushy mother, a rich, prideful hero with an interfering titled female relative, a silly sister, a lothario looking to marry a woman with money, and it's all set in England in the 1800s! (Only Mr. Collins was notably absent.)

The difference, of course, is that Elizabeth Bennet, despite her inner rebel, never would have jumped into bed with Darcy before they More...

Book 2 in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflower Quartet - I would recommend reading them in order!

Lillian Bowman... *shakes her head*

Okay, so Lillian has this INCREDIBLE sense of smell... (Go with me here... strange as it may seem), so she goes to this perfume shop and has the perfume maker make a special blend... and he says that he's going to put something special in it that will help her get a husband, or something like that. So it's basically a love potion in perfume form.

SO, when Marcus Westcliff (Alin More...

The second Wallflower finds love. I enjoyed reading the story of Lillian and Westcliff. And even though the story only had one amazing surprise, it held my interest the whole way. I'm looking forward to the next in the series and wondering how Ms. Kleypas will redeem Lord St. Vincent.

Con la Kleypas non si sbaglia mai. Anche quando non è in forma supera di gran lunga tutte le sue colleghe. Ormai è un nome sinonimo di sicurezza e di qualità.
Anche questa volta, con il secondo romanzo delle Zitelle, abbiamo una storia bella, corposa, intensa e coerente, con una trama lineare ma mai banale; personaggi interessante e mai fastidiosi, un eroe kleypasiano da infarto ed un'eroina che non diventa mai antipatica; in più ci sono diversi personaggi secondari che arricchiscono la storia e More...

I loved "It Happened One Autumn", especially when compared to the first book of the Wallflowers series. I was really intrigued by the characters of Lillian and Lord Westcliff in "Secrets of a Summer Night", so I was excited to find out that they get their own happy ending.

Lillian really sets herself apart from the archetype - she is American, proud, uninhibited, skilled at lock picking, and always up to no good. Her boorishness is so similar to Marcus' that their encounters are a delight to read More...

Lillian Bowman and her sister Daisy have been brought over from America to England to find titled husbands. But even though a lot of the great families are cash poor and the Bowmans are very rich, they are looked down at by society. Lillian doesn't care and sees no reason to follow a bunch of stupid rules in order to gain their approval. Marcus, Lord Westcliff in particular seems offended by her very existence. He has had a very straight laced upbringing always conscious of his place in society. More...

C’est le tome deux de la ronde des saisons. Comme le tome 1 est à 25 euros d’occasion, j’ai laissé tomber la lecture du premier tome.

Ah ! voilà une histoire délicieuse avec des personnages comme je les aime. Merci Lisa Kleypas de créer des personnages haut en couleur et inoubliables !

Cette histoire raconte la rencontre entre deux personnes ayant des caractères opposés et butés. Lilian est une jeune fille américaine qui est à la chasse au mari. Sauf que ses manières laissent à désirer. Elle est i More...