It kind of felt like an information overload and an advertisement to read about Penelope's siblings' stories.

Even after I was able to clearly put together the families and the husbands and wives, I started getting even more confused as Penelope later on talked about her family. I was lost in the beginning and it took me a while to get a strong grasp on who was who. I'll confess it was hard to orient myself because there are so many characters and there's so much history between the two rival families. It felt as if I was reading a book in the middle of a series. This is the first book in a series, but it didn't feel like it.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and voluntarily chose to write a review. It could unravel the families’ tenuous truce and shatter the unpredictably sinful romance mounting between the hellion…and a scoundrel who could pass for the devil himself. There’s only one thing that threatens the rules of the game: Cleopatra’s secret. But she will not allow her head to be turned by the infuriating and darkly handsome Adair Thorne. That said, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her siblings―even if that means being sponsored by their rivals for a season in order to land a noble husband. If she were anyone else but the enemy, she’d ignite a desire in him that would be impossible to control. His fury and passion burn even hotter when he meets Cleopatra Killoran, a tart-mouthed vixen who mocks him at every turn. USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell’s Wicked Wallflowers series burns hot as two rivals meet in the flesh and feel the heat…Īdair Thorne has just watched his gaming-hell dream disappear into a blaze of fire and ash, and he’s certain that his competitors, the Killorans, are behind it.

The Hellion by Christi Caldwell