The Captivating Lady Charlotte

Legacy of Grace Series, Book 2

By: Carolyn Miller

Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples

Lady Charlotte Featherington is destined for great things on the marriage market. After all, as the beautiful daughter of a marquess, she should have her pick of the eligible nobility when she debuts. She, however, has love at the top of her list of marriageable attributes. And her romantic heart falls hard for one particularly dashing, attentive suitor. Sadly for Charlotte, her noble father intends her betrothed to be someone far more dull.

William Hartwell may be a duke, but he knows he was Charlotte's father's pick, not the young lady's own choice. And the captivating Lady Charlotte does not strike him as a woman who will be wooed by his wealth or title. While she has captured his heart, he has no idea how to win hers in return - and the betrayal and scandal his first wife put him through makes it difficult for him to believe that love can ever be trusted. His only hope is that Charlotte's sense of responsibility will win out over her romantic notions.

Can a widowed duke and a romantically inclined lady negotiate a future and discover love beyond duty? Will they be able to find healing and hope from the legacy of grace?

Poignant and charming, this is another beautifully written, clean and wholesome regency romance from Carolyn Miller in the tradition of Georgette Heyer and Julie Klassen. Fans of The Elusive Miss Ellison will meet compelling new characters - and a few old friends.

©2017 Carolyn Miller (P)2018 Tantor

Good story line, annoying main character

This story was well written, I only have one complaint, why in the world does Charlotte, the main female character sound like Minnie Mouse. Her voice was grading and I almost couldn’t finish the book. I understand if you need to write in people with annoying high pitched voices but it didn’t make you want to root for her as the lead.

Very well done 👍

I enjoyed the storyline, a duke being an average kind of fellow with integrity & kindness but scared from betrayal. The heroine seemed a little immature & hard to understand his attraction to such immaturity, but did provide a different storyline. Narrator voice a little too squeaky for female lead but male voices done well.

Narrator-yukky

The story was enjoyable. However the narrator was not to my liking. It was overdone and too high for my ears to enjoy. It took me longer to finish because it was irritating.

Oh trust me but I’ll keep withholding 🤨.

I know she got it honest, I mean with a mother and grandmother like hers, you get to be a little nervous, screechy and dramatic, but wow, she is just wow. Good thing he was captivated, I guess, because her hot mess drama queen side was bringing out my inner violent streak, if one has daydreams about meanness toward fictional book characters.

Meh…

SPOILERS:
I appreciate what the author was trying to do: show a naive young girl’s developing understanding of the values lasting love can be based upon. This was just not convincingly achieved in the execution.
I didn’t like the main character Charlotte very much. I found her anything BUT captivating. The narrator did a great job with everyone but Charlotte, whose voice was like a simpering, lispy 3-year-old. Why would William be attracted to this immature baby of a girl who clearly doesn’t return his interest, after his wife cheated on him so relentlessly? Didn’t he learn his lesson? Just because she has pretty eyes?
A lot of harsh, shrill, annoying characters in this one,
And why didn’t anyone notice that William’s first wife’s lady’s maid was a vicious lunatic, and after she was dragged shrieking violent vengeance on the house and its master, why didn’t anyone think of her after anonymous acts of terror began raining down upon the estate? Too much implausibility here.
Personally I liked the religious aspect, and the exploration of what real love is. A nice departure from the typical zero-to-fifty burning-passion-once-their- lips-met, which always seems unrealistic to me.

Not my favorite

Story was much longer than it needed to be. Seemed to drag in certain spots.

Good story

This had a good backstory behind the romance plot. Good to see a clean romance.

Exhausting

Let me be clear: I loved the story line and I really wanted to know what happened to everyone. I wanted the main characters to be together. For that reason alone I was resolved to stay until the end. But the journey to get there was unbelievably draining. First - there were way too many obstacles, misunderstandings, problems. Does a good story need some angst? Absolutely. This was unbearable. All the author did was create an obscene amount of anxiety and had me on a roller coaster the entire time. It was very unpleasant. If the author used only a fraction of all the drama in there, it would have been enough. This was a horrendous overdose. To top it off, the couple doesn’t have a happy ending until like, the last 2% of the book. That was a horrible reward for enduring the story. Very unsatisfying, to say the very least. Second - it was difficult to deal with the immaturity of the main female character. Having to deal with her absolute ridiculousness along with the above mentioned excessively long and difficult plot was basically just cruel. How on earth can a reader withstand both of those problems? Third - by making it worse with the narration. To be fair, I don’t have a massive issue with the narration as a whole. But the portrayal of the main female character was…difficult. It made an excessively long and uncomfortable connection to said main female character even worse. And last, the Fourth - I’m a Christian. I read the Bible, I appreciate its value in my life and I try to live by it. However, I didn’t choose this book because of that and wasn’t looking to read it for that. I wanted the story. Ms. Miller literally shoves faith, scripture, etc down your throat with no finesse. In short, this story had so much potential but was literally painful to get through. I would love to finish this series and the next, but I can’t. A true shame.

Voice of female lead was terrible

The story is ok n clean but could be shorter n there were loose ends that was not addressed, how very unfashionable and inconsiderate

not as good as the first

One of those stories were if the characters would just talk to one another 50 percent of the chapters would have been null and void. The main female character constantly asked to not be treated like a child yet continues to behave like a child indecisiv, immature; unable to make decisions for themselves or communicate.
Made several references to her wisdom when she wasn't really all that wise.