
Forgotten & Remembered: The Duke's Late Wife
Love's Second Chance Series: Tales of Lords & Ladies, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Anna Parker-Naples
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By:
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Bree Wolf
About this listen
A grieving widower. A strong lady. And a little girl who needs them both.
After losing his wife in an accident, Graham Astor, Duke of Kensington, decides that love is not worth the risk of having his heart broken all over again. Even his little daughter he keeps at a distance, afraid to hurt her with the darkness that now lives in his heart. Since he is unable to be the father she deserves, he vows to find her a mother who will heal her little heart.
At a garden party, Graham spots a young woman with a shy smile tending lovingly to her little cousins...and he knows his duty.
As the black sheep of her family, Rosabel Lander has no illusions about love. After her parents' deaths, her aunt and uncle reluctantly took her in, demanding nothing short of complete obedience. Unable to live down her past, Rosabel only wishes for one thing: freedom.
However, before she dares to take the first step toward an independent future, a cold-hearted stranger asks for her hand in marriage...and as the obedient niece, Rosabel cannot refuse.
Will Rosabel find love after all? Or will the memory of Graham's late wife keep them both from finding happiness?
This Beauty and the Beast story by a USA Today best-selling author proves that the past can never be forgotten, but its regrets can be forgiven.
©2015 Sabrina Wolf (P)2017 TantorA well performed interesting photo
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Sweet but with a very stubborn MMC
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I thought Wolf wrote very well, as she presented us with characters mired by human imperfection, making mistakes and not always live up to the potential we think they have... She plots out an arc and sticks to it. Where women were agentless and secondary to the men in their life, I thought Wolf depicted Rosabel superbly. The H/h have a very hard battle to wage within themselves and with eachtoher, and by the end succeed. That is good writing to me, not lazy and not unwilling to paint her mains in unfriendly lights. While this book is incredibly emotionally fraught and for a goodly portion of the novel we don't see our couple together but living apart, it was crafted in a way so that, still, they get to know eachother through letters or the word of friends (Edmond and Helen). And while we have to watch Rosabel and Georgiana left behind again and again.... then again, and again, and again.....I think Wolf does this intentionally because when the peak finally comes (twice, I think) I was so wound up and sad I just ended up crying. I love it when a writer can do that to me. Then when they finally start to understand eachother in truth, it is so much the sweeter.
Ugh, I just adored this. It's not an easy listen, as Rosabel starts being genuinely terrified of her husband and Graham starts out in crippling despair and having hallucinations about his dead wife.. somehow they end up in a true, pure love together. It isn't sudden and listeners are carefully and clearly lead to the happy end. Wish the epilogue had been an hour long.
If you are like me and you like that a lack of external conflict, or outlandishness. Or if you don't always want to read a book that requires complete suspension of disbelief... Listen to this. This story very much reflected, to me, an exploration of real-life situations in the past.
Anna Parker-Naples is definitely not my favourite narrator because her male voices really blow, but she does a good job here I think.
Highly recommend this one.
Love me an emotionally devastating romance novel
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Thank You Bree Wolf
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Takes a long time to get to the end!!
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Forgotten & Remembered
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Heart warming story line although I kept expecting the villain to appear again.
Easy listening for a summers day
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monotony of sound.
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weak heroine overdramatic narration
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