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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth Knowelden
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By:
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Suzanne Allain
About this listen
From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm.
Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune.
So when she discovers that she’s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor’s Directory, and is horrified to find he is far more attractive than his actions have led her to expect. However, Diana is unmoved by Max’s explanation that he authored the list to assist younger sons like himself who cannot afford to marry unless it’s to a woman of means.
She gathers the ladies in the directory together to inform them of its existence, so they may circumvent fortune hunters’ efforts to trick them into marriage. Though outraged, the women decide to embrace their unique position of power and reverse the usual gender roles by making the men dance to their tune. And together…the ladies rewrite the rules.
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- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Determined to locate a kidnapped dog, Michael Bromley, Duke of Woriton, isn’t thrilled to be saddled with a flighty female insisting on helping, except that Bitsy has a great deal more sense than he expected—and a sharp tongue to match. Still, what’s a scientist to do but continue to pursue an outcome, however unexpected it may be? But chemistry is all about attraction, and this is one formula with some hilariously romantic results.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mark Meadows makes this fun story memorable
- By Book Queen on 06-09-24
By: Suzanne Enoch
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The Siren of Sussex
- Belles of London, Book 1
- By: Mimi Matthews
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale, Lydia Hanman
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Evelyn Maltravers understands exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself by making the biggest splash in the one sphere she excels: on horseback. In haute couture. But to truly capture London's attention she'll need a habit-maker who's not afraid to take risks with his designs - and with his heart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed, not typical Mimi Matthews
- By Regina Holloway on 01-12-22
By: Mimi Matthews
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Miss Lattimore's Letter
- By: Suzanne Allain
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Sophronia Lattimore had her romantic dreams destroyed years ago and is resigned to her role as chaperone for her cousin. Still, she cannot sit idly by when she becomes aware that a gentleman is about to propose to the wrong woman. She sends him an anonymous letter that is soon the talk of the town, particularly when her advice proves to be correct. Her identity is discovered and Sophie, formerly a wallflower, becomes sought after for her “expert” matchmaking skills.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was ok
- By Sarah M. on 02-07-22
By: Suzanne Allain
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Ne'er Duke Well
- By: Alexandra Vasti
- Narrated by: Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Peter Kent—newly inherited Duke of Stanhope and recently of New Orleans, Louisiana—must become respectable. Between his radical politics and the time he interrupted a minor royal wedding with a flock of sheep—not his fault!—he’s developed a scandalous reputation at odds with his goal of becoming guardian to his half-siblings. For help, he turns to the cleverest and most managing woman of his acquaintance, Lady Selina Ravenscroft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect!
- By hrhkris on 09-08-24
By: Alexandra Vasti
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Mr. Malcolm's List
- By: Suzanne Allain
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 848
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Story4 out of 5 stars 749
The Honorable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. As the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, he's determined to avoid the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. But after years of searching, he's beginning to despair of ever finding this paragon. Until Selina Dalton arrives in town. Selina, a vicar's daughter of limited means and a stranger to high society, is thrilled when her friend, Julia Thistlewaite, invites her to London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, clean romance!!
- By Mikey on 01-26-21
By: Suzanne Allain
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The Knockoff
- A Novel
- By: Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,470
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,242
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs", put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Buy it Now!
- By Sydney Culver on 05-24-15
By: Lucy Sykes, and others
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The Memory Library
- By: Kate Storey
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond, Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely story
- By Teresa van Niekerk on 03-22-25
By: Kate Storey
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A Daughter of Fair Verona
- By: Christina Dodd
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here’s the thing: That’s not how it ended at all. Romeo and Juliet are alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I’m the oldest, with the emphasis on ‘old’—a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It’s not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it—constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out … it’s exhausting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoy the story
- By Amazon Customer on 03-08-25
By: Christina Dodd
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The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
- By: C. M. Waggoner
- Narrated by: Ava Lucas
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Story4 out of 5 stars 184
Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent - again. Then she sees a “wanted” sign seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins. Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do not recommend
- By Sullivan on 01-30-21
By: C. M. Waggoner
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Nevermore Bookstore
- Townsend Harbor, Book 1
- By: Kerrigan Byrne, Cynthia St. Aubin
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Stella Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 244
Cadence "Cady" Bloomquist knows two things for sure: First, shelving books at her shop, Nevermore Bookstore, totally counts as cardio. Second, staying late every Thursday night to take a certain mysterious customer's order is not the same as waiting by the phone for some man. Until the calls with the man who identifies himself only as "Fox" last for hours, and become the highlight of her week. Which leaves her to wonder, if his velvet voice can kindle her fire over the phone, what sort of alchemy might it inspire if they met in person?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give it time
- By Ap2514 on 10-30-23
By: Kerrigan Byrne, and others
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The Seducer
- Seducer, Book 1
- By: Madeline Hunter
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
From the moment he arrived to rescue her, Diane Albret saw more in the darkly handsome, charismatic gentleman than just a guardian. Over the years that had passed since she first saw Daniel St. John, he had become, quite simply, the most dangerously irresistible man she had ever imagined. Diane herself had changed from a bewildered schoolgirl, tragically orphaned, to a determined young woman of alluring charm and beauty. Now, leaving the cloistered life of her school, she has been brought to Daniel’s home with dreams of her own amid rumors and hints of scandal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Novel….
- By August on 09-22-23
By: Madeline Hunter
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The Girls in the Picture
- A Novel
- By: Melanie Benjamin
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers" - the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Melodramatic
- By Kay on 02-12-18
By: Melanie Benjamin
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The Story Collector
- By: Evie Woods
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 696
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 658
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In New York in the present day, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets – secrets that tread the line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finding your place when you’re so lost
- By Bobbi Stoffers on 08-05-24
By: Evie Woods
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery
- Being a Jane Austen Mystery, Book 1
- By: Stephanie Barron
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel, countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband - a gentleman of mature years - is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the earl's nephew of adultery - and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally the first four books
- By Rena on 06-05-20
By: Stephanie Barron
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The Twelve Dates of Christmas
- By: Jenny Bayliss
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,584
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,427
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,427
When it comes to relationships, 34-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say "Bah, humbug". The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn't exactly brimming with prospects, and anyway, Kate's found fulfillment in her career as a designer and in her delicious side job baking for her old friend Matt's neighborhood café. But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to help singles find love before the holidays. Twenty-three days until Christmas. Twelve dates with 12 different men. The odds must finally be in her favor...right?
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3 out of 5 stars
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LOVED the story-didn’t love the profanity
- By A. Hill on 12-05-20
By: Jenny Bayliss
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The No-Show
- By: Beth O'Leary
- Narrated by: Evanna Lynch, Heather Long, Kathryn Drysdale, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 778
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 699
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 698
Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They’ve all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up—Valentine’s Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they’ve all been stood up by the same man.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Cheryl Lynn on 05-07-22
By: Beth O'Leary
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No One Ever Asked
- A Novel
- By: Katie Ganshert
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray - the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman, and champion fund-raiser - faced with a shocking discovery; Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption; and 22-year-old Anaya Jones - the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand-new teacher at Crystal Ridge's top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking
- By Tamara on 06-22-18
By: Katie Ganshert
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- Xinavee
- 11-05-24
Smart, empowering, thoughtful.
Loved the sisterhood shown in the book. It highlighted concerns of the time and showed struggles with out being weighted down. Each character had depth.
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- Michael A. Yaple
- 04-16-24
I love rule breakers👍
I love Allain's stories. Sophisticated, clean, fun and flirty.
In this story, she once again tackles societal rules, while keeping her heroine, chaste, virtuous and hopeful. Her stories can teach how boys need to grow up to be honorable men, young ladies can remain clean but still enjoy their youth and all can have clean courtships.
The voice actor, beautiful performance lovely breathy voice. bravo.
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- ReadytoRead
- 04-27-24
Over all good read.
It's over all a good story but took too long for the main characters to get anywhere.
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- jesienskok
- 06-15-24
Just when you think…
Just when you think an author can’t get better than the one before… she goes and out does herself!!! I want all 3 books to be made into movies!! This was so fantastic!! As was the reading itself!! Can’t say how much I LOvED this!! Never before told story! Sometime they are just kinda like repeats ya know… but this was such a new take on things!! Brava!!
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- christina johnson
- 11-29-24
Fun and lovely
I enjoyed this light and easy read. I love how clean and sweet the book is. I enjoyed learning a bit more about Vauxhall Gardens as well. Enjoyed the characters the story and the narrator. Look forward to the authors next book.
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- Keri Collins Lewis
- 05-25-24
Sweet story of friendship, romance, & taking a stand
Brilliantly executed by the talented Elizabeth Knowelden, this Austen-esque tale is a fun spin on the usual social drama. I love how the women join forces to assume the power to have a say in their own lives.
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- Kris Rivers
- 01-16-24
Wonderful book
The only negative I can find to say about this is that I listened too fast and it ended too soon for me, that’s how great it is!
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- Sam
- 04-26-24
Very cute!
This was a fun, quick and enjoyable story. The author obviously enjoyed taking liberties with her group of ladies making it a fun read.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-04-25
Cute, clean, but a little long
Really enjoyed this sweet and clean romance by Allain, and even more so that it was narrated by one of my absolute Audible favorites. The ending felt a little drawn out, but otherwise, it was a solid romance.
Note, I don’t read romance, so the story might actually be super typical and I’m just used to cozy mysteries that have quicker paced finales.
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- chovok
- 01-29-24
I love that the protagonist was not the normal young lady.
The book was performed wonderfully and the story itself is delightfully written. This is my third book by the author and I think each one gets better.
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