Earl Lessons
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Mary Sarah
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Valerie Bowman
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He never wanted a title.
Fresh off the battlefield, Captain David Ellsworth has returned home to discover the shocking and unwelcome news that he's the new Earl of Elmwood. Though David had no idea he was in line for a title, he and his sister must now navigate the snark-infested waters of the London ton. He knows how to be a soldier, an officer, and a brother, but he hasn't a clue how to be an earl. David will need all the help he can get. Even if it comes from the undeniably beautiful woman...who is the darling of the world he detests.
She never wanted a husband.
The younger sister of a marquess, Lady Annabelle Bellham moves through elegant ballrooms with the ease of a lioness traversing the jungle. She's the most elusive belle at every ball, and gentlemen have long placed bets on which lucky man will finally win her hand. But Annabelle has no intention of falling prey to a man's charms. She's seen the destruction wrought by marriage and is dead set on avoiding a similar fate.
But here they are....
Contains mature themes.
©2021 June Third Enterprises, LLC (P)2021 Tantor
However, this volume might not be the most captivating of the lot. I heard it directly after book 3 (in which the hero and the heroine are secret agents hunting down a traitor) and found myself unexpectedly so bored with book 5 that I seriously considered stopping listening to it.
The main reason was that there is very little outer action apart from the heroine teaching the hero how to behave in polite society and visiting a few social entertainments with him. So, about the first twenty chapters or so are mainly static, lengthy reflections on Regency conventions in general and the emotional reasons why the two cannot marry in particular. Admittedly, there are a handful of minor characters who try to bully the heroine and one or two compromising situations which finally force the two main characters into marriage, but they remain marginal and seem to have no real impact on the heroine and her determination not to marry. The true retarding element is the heroine herself. Everyone - the hero, the other characters and the reader - just have to wait until she comes to terms with her childhood trauma and then everything quickly dissolves into happiness. That all their friends and relatives tried to bring them together all along and that a certain Lady Elspeth spun an antagonistic intrigue which also furthered their relationship is claimed afterwards but not worked into the plot very well.
There is a love scene which is typical for this series: Although the heroines are usually innocent, rather ignorant young women of their era, they seem to rush into sexual relationships with a man and giving him a bl*j* with less feelings of guilt, doubt, shame or let alone revulsion than many modern women would.
The slow, overly pronounced lisp of the narrator does nothing to make the plot appear more dynamic. The narrator has a beautiful voice with a great potential to interpret different voices and feelings, but in this production she aspirates and lisps just a bit too much.
On the whole, I had the impression that the author either tried to do something different which I just didn't quite understand or that she just had to keep the deadline to publish her next book. To my mind, the first three books of this series are more conclusive and entertaining.
Boring
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Kostenlos gewesen wäre, hätte ich es zurückgegeben. Dürfte die schlechteste Sprecherin sein, die ich je gehört habe
Schreckliche Sprecher
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Schade, die Sprecherin ruiniert das Hörerlebnis
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