Would-Be Wallflowers · Book 2
The Reluctant Countess
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9780063139589
- Type
- novel
About this book
The second entry, The Reluctant Countess, appeared the same year as the opener, 2022, continuing the trilogy's running joke of heroines who fail spectacularly at going unnoticed.
Its place in Would-Be Wallflowers
The Reluctant Countess is book 2 in the Would-Be Wallflowers series. It follows How to Be a Wallflower. It is followed by Not That Duke. See the full Would-Be Wallflowers reading order.
Would-Be Wallflowers follows a trio of Regency women who each try, and fail, to fade into the background of the marriage mart the way a proper wallflower should. How to Be a Wallflower (2022) opens the series, followed by The Reluctant Countess (2022) and Not That Duke (2023), each pairing an accidentally conspicuous heroine with a match who notices her despite her best efforts at invisibility. The series' central joke -- women trying and failing to be forgettable -- gives James a fresh spin on the genre's usual…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063139589
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063267497
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780349434384