Least Likely To Win A Duke
Series: The Wallflower Academy #1
Author: Emily E.K. Murdoch
Published December 21st 2023 by Mills & Boon Historical

Goodreads Synopsis
A most unlikely match

For a most unlikely wallflower!

Part of The Wallflower Academy. Miss Pike’s finishing school might be designed to find the most unconventional of debutantes a husband, but Gwendoline Knox doesn’t expect to literally bump into a duke on her first day! Let alone one as distractingly charming as Percy Devereux. Gwen knows nothing can come of their flirtations—not with their different stations and her scandalous secret! Still, she can’t help wishing for more…even if that means confronting her past…
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

Being forcibly sent to Miss Pike's finishing school, otherwise known as the Wallflower Academy, is very much against everything Gwendoline Knox wanted. So when she literally walks into a duke on her first day, it's more than a shock. Gwen's mother may be a social climber, but even she knows that a duke, especially one as handsome as Percy Devereux, Duke of Knaresby, is high above her station, and nothing will ever come from the match. No matter how much Gwen wants it.

I've really enjoyed the other books I've read by this author, and this new series looked to be a good one, and I was right. I loved the banted between Gwen and Percy, who treated each other as equals and did not defer to their status at all. For Percy, it was refreshing to have a woman talking to him, and not pandering to his title and bending over backward to please him. Gwen's friendships with Rilla and Sylvia was the perfect reprieve from the romance of the story, and I hope they have exciting romances in the rest of the series too.

Dates Read:
January 26, 2025

Rating
3 Stars