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The Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! #2
The Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! Volume 2
Mariage Blanc Becomes A Love Marriage!
Iris is the daughter of a marquess who was married off to nouveau riche, Baron Lucas, to become his aristocratic etiquette guidebook. Their relationship started as a mariage blanc, but the two find themselves slowly drawn to each other. However, one day, Iris discovers that there’s someone lurking in the shadows, maliciously trying to ruin her family, House Karelia. The perfect opportunity to convict the mastermind of his crimes is at her younger sister’s engagement party! Will Iris and Lucas successfully capture the criminal and grab ahold of their happiness?!
Iris is the daughter of a marquess who was married off to nouveau riche, Baron Lucas, to become his aristocratic etiquette guidebook. Their relationship started as a mariage blanc, but the two find themselves slowly drawn to each other. However, one day, Iris discovers that there’s someone lurking in the shadows, maliciously trying to ruin her family, House Karelia. The perfect opportunity to convict the mastermind of his crimes is at her younger sister’s engagement party! Will Iris and Lucas successfully capture the criminal and grab ahold of their happiness?!
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Published May 31, 2024
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June 7, 2024
A tale of strength and convictions.
Following Iris’ unexpectedly happy new married life, the conclusion to The Invisible Wallflower’s saga has her facing off against her demons.
The story begins exactly where the opening volume left off—with Iris being invited to help with her younger sister’s engagement party. This is a difficult ask for Iris, as she’ll be forced to come face-to-face again with her abusive parents, bratty sister, and former fiancé.
Iris handles this situation deftly. Likely in large part due to her time spent in less hostile territory, she’s grown leaps and bounds. No longer playing the role of the delicate wallflower, she uses her newfound strength to confront and fight back against those who’ve wronged her, and it’s a good thing too, considering the villains of this arc are best described as people who enjoy the act of kicking puppies.
While Iris’ father and stepmother play the role of abusers well, they end up being overshadowed by the true antagonist of this tale: Mikhail, Iris’ former fiancé. He’s the most villainous villain to ever villain, and there’s no end to his list of crimes. With him, trafficking, rape, and murder are all on the docket, and not even Iris can escape his evil machinations as he tries to rape her not once but twice during the volume.
These uncomfortable assault scenes are played to mixed effect within the story. The first is played off well as the author manages to build Mikhail’s character around the event. His thinly veiled lies, chalking up his actions for the sake of the nation’s purity, belie a man obsessed with the idea that a woman should be controlled and act much like a porcelain doll.
Unfortunately, this characterisation doesn’t carry forward, as he plans to carry out his second assault at the end of the volume. Featuring a frenzied and unpredictable Mikhail, this sequence contains some of the most vomit-inducing phrases ever put to paper, and even though the series ends with a happy ending, this scene still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
While Iris takes the brunt of Mikhail’s twisted aspirations during this volume, Lucas’ role has him in the background for most of the volume. Under the orders of the kingdom’s third prince, he also ends up crossing paths with Mikhail as he investigates him for crimes of trafficking and treason. This eventually leads to a conviction scene during Iris’ younger sister’s engagement party.
The conviction and accusation scenes play like a well-choreographed dance, as nouveau riche and old blood spar for the sanctity of the nation. It’s just a shame that this ends up taking time away from Lucas and Iris, as their relationship has only just begun to bear fruit. Moreover, these scenes end up losing some of their impact as they’re all undone for the sake of the climax.
Overall, while The Invisible Wallflower’s final volume showed potential, it is inevitably overshadowed by a poorly planned climax that leaves nothing but a bad taste in your mouth.
Following Iris’ unexpectedly happy new married life, the conclusion to The Invisible Wallflower’s saga has her facing off against her demons.
The story begins exactly where the opening volume left off—with Iris being invited to help with her younger sister’s engagement party. This is a difficult ask for Iris, as she’ll be forced to come face-to-face again with her abusive parents, bratty sister, and former fiancé.
Iris handles this situation deftly. Likely in large part due to her time spent in less hostile territory, she’s grown leaps and bounds. No longer playing the role of the delicate wallflower, she uses her newfound strength to confront and fight back against those who’ve wronged her, and it’s a good thing too, considering the villains of this arc are best described as people who enjoy the act of kicking puppies.
While Iris’ father and stepmother play the role of abusers well, they end up being overshadowed by the true antagonist of this tale: Mikhail, Iris’ former fiancé. He’s the most villainous villain to ever villain, and there’s no end to his list of crimes. With him, trafficking, rape, and murder are all on the docket, and not even Iris can escape his evil machinations as he tries to rape her not once but twice during the volume.
These uncomfortable assault scenes are played to mixed effect within the story. The first is played off well as the author manages to build Mikhail’s character around the event. His thinly veiled lies, chalking up his actions for the sake of the nation’s purity, belie a man obsessed with the idea that a woman should be controlled and act much like a porcelain doll.
Unfortunately, this characterisation doesn’t carry forward, as he plans to carry out his second assault at the end of the volume. Featuring a frenzied and unpredictable Mikhail, this sequence contains some of the most vomit-inducing phrases ever put to paper, and even though the series ends with a happy ending, this scene still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
While Iris takes the brunt of Mikhail’s twisted aspirations during this volume, Lucas’ role has him in the background for most of the volume. Under the orders of the kingdom’s third prince, he also ends up crossing paths with Mikhail as he investigates him for crimes of trafficking and treason. This eventually leads to a conviction scene during Iris’ younger sister’s engagement party.
The conviction and accusation scenes play like a well-choreographed dance, as nouveau riche and old blood spar for the sanctity of the nation. It’s just a shame that this ends up taking time away from Lucas and Iris, as their relationship has only just begun to bear fruit. Moreover, these scenes end up losing some of their impact as they’re all undone for the sake of the climax.
Overall, while The Invisible Wallflower’s final volume showed potential, it is inevitably overshadowed by a poorly planned climax that leaves nothing but a bad taste in your mouth.
October 17, 2024
I’m too lazy to go look at the start of the book, but I don’t remember there being a trigger warning for anything (which some people would appreciate having one for this volume). So, trigger warning for SA, drugs, abuse, and trafficking…. Im sure there are some more but those are the main ones that screamed out to me. In fact, the SA scene is the one that got me thinking about this book needing to have some type of warning because it was very gruesome (expected, sure, but gruesome, nonetheless).
Anyway, I loved this duology!
Though I wish we got to more of the happy couple, I’m happy with the progression and completion of Iris Stock’s storyline. For me, though, I’m gonna just imagine that the two had a bunch of babies and made the Stock name into something to be revered and feared! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Anyway, I loved this duology!
Though I wish we got to more of the happy couple, I’m happy with the progression and completion of Iris Stock’s storyline. For me, though, I’m gonna just imagine that the two had a bunch of babies and made the Stock name into something to be revered and feared! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
June 14, 2024
Satisfying.
March 18, 2025
abandoned
November 14, 2024
3.5 stars
this had less romance then the previous one. legit closed door kissing if anything. It should have been a longer single book then 2. Enjoyed it by idk wasnt that great
this had less romance then the previous one. legit closed door kissing if anything. It should have been a longer single book then 2. Enjoyed it by idk wasnt that great
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