Books like The Taming of Annabelle

The second book of Marion Chesney's first series, the author continued to explore the vein of six sisters who change as they grow up. It's no coincidence that the title should derive from the Taming of the Shrew, since Annabelle is probably the closest one to being a shrew of all her heroines. At this point in time, I feel the author was still trying to deviate from her earlier wilting-violet heroines and experimenting with a "tempestuous" MC. Annabelle was one handful of a heroine. She was a seething mass of churning emotions that she kept controlled a minimum of the time: filled with immaturity and envy and jealousy and arrogance as well as a tendency to show off -- it would be impossible to like her or ignore her existence. She was alive in a way that most of Marion Chesney's other heroines was not.The impetus of this book continued from the first one in which Annabelle derives a ferocious crush on Minerva's fiance, Lord Sylvester, and imagines that her preachy sister couldn't possibly be in love with the urbane and sophisticated lord. Because Minerva must have been planning on marrying to save the family, if Annabelle took him away from her, she wouldn't be harming anyone in the least. The author attempted to explain away Annabelle's immaturity as being spoiled, but what it really was -- if you started the author with this book -- was that Annabelle was not very likable. She fought with her younger sisters, she did vicarage duties grudgingly, she made fun of all and sundry with snippety remarks, and she envied her older sister's status and power just as she relied on her.Soon, in an effort to compete with Minerva, Annabelle becomes engaged to the Marquess of Brabington, Lord Sylvester's friend recently returned a war hero, and calls him by the wrong name in the first throes of passion. Here, her father the enterprising and surprisingly intuitive vicar interferes and seeks to right her marriage by taking aside the Marquess in an effort to school Annabelle. In the end is an milder, more mature (?) Annabelle who appreciates her husband more (?). I put a lot of question marks on that because her change was more like she was cowed by society, and in the later books of the series, you can see that she still tries to one-up other people and hog the limelight.All's well that ends well -- except I did notice that Annabelle becomes embroiled in almost romances with two men named Guy, and whose initials are G.W., first in Minerva, and a different character by a very similar name in this book, both who turn out to be villainous schemers.