Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Series, Book 1
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Guilty Pleasures
Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik
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Narrated by:
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Anne Flosnik
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By:
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Laura Lee Guhrke
About this listen
One of Daphne Wade's guilty pleasures is to watch the Duke of Tremore as he works, shirtless, on the excavation site of his ducal estate. Anthony Courtland is by far the most exciting and handsome man she has ever known, and she dreams of one day being able to speak with him without getting tongue tied.
Anthony, meanwhile, only sees Daphne as a hard worker on his excavation team. He considers her a plain young lady and says so in a careless remark to a friend, unaware that Daphne is outside the library door, her heart shattering to pieces. So Daphne decides she will not be so silly any longer. She begins to be tutored in the social graces, forcing Anthony to see the beauty who has been right in front of his eyes.
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the narrator lets the book down
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Well worth a listen.....😉💕
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4+4 ?
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Glasses do NOT take away from anyone's beauty...
I liked the slow burn, I liked that he really started seeing her, taking notice & even if it was self-serving, that he started treating her a lot better & through that they built up a friendship.
However... that couldn't save it for me as all the overused tropes went into full force.
I liked that she started standing up for herself, but more often than not, she came across as more shrewish than assertive & she took offense to the littlest thing.
Sorry, but no one owes you their affection simply because you fancy them & this is exactly what it boiled down to...
It was quite clear from the beginning that she was always quite dowdy in her dress sense, that she was barely able to speak in his presence & that she hid from him a lot... yet, she was expecting him to take notice when she was doing everything to fade into the background, was kinda stalkery & she takes offence that that's exactly how he saw her... stick insect on a leaf sounds accurate 🤷♀️
That she treated the dance lessons as her due even though he was in no way obliged to help...
That she was desolate, destitute & he gave her, a woman (that wouldn't have been commonplace in that era) not only a chance, but security, a job, a roof over her head, chaperones & she doesn't even agree to at least stay until the museum is opened, is both graceless & ungrateful on her part, IMO!
& she doesn't even have any guarantees for her future which makes her foolish not brave in my eyes 🫤
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pet hate... authors writing regency romance as though it were the modern era.
It neither makes sense nor is it romantic for a woman to refuse a marriage proposal in that era... "because he doesn't love me" 🙄 it's moronic.
I prefer my heroines to be a lot more practical with a good head on their shoulders...
Those were VERY different times, women had no rights whatsoever, life wasn't fun nor easy for women in general, but especially women without family & fortune... love in those circumstances would've been considered a luxury... at best you could hope for a man who didn't mistreat you!
Also a child out of wedlock, even a Duke's child would've had a horrible time growing up & would've been ostracised regardless... so that makes that option nonsensical!
sadly it descended into every overused trope going 😬
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Excellent Narrations
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Good story well told
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Explicit account of a daft ducal carry-on. All aristocracy on best behaviour and stupid. When it involved a collection of artefacts for
A duke by a..young dowdy woman in glasses the story gathered pace
and became strangely interesting. I was fascinated by this book and
thought it was amazing. The end was so unexpected. It is the cleverest
Amazon historical Romance I have read. Great.. Thankyou.. MG
Unexpected twists and turns
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A very enjoyable, sweet romance
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