The Daring Duke
The 1797 Club, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Danielle O'Farrell
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By:
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Jess Michaels
About this listen
The first book of the much anticipated 1797 Club series from USA Today best-selling author Jess Michaels. The dukes are coming!
The wild and charismatic Duke of Abernathe is the kind of friend anyone would wish to have. He even formed the 1797 Club, consisting of 10 men who would all be dukes. But he has full-throatedly declared he will never marry and no one understands why.
But Miss Emma Liston doesn't care why. A longtime wallflower with an absentee father who is a scandal waiting to happen, she needs to marry. Now. She decides to take a wild chance and ask the help of her friend Meg's brother James. She asks him to pretend he's interested in her just long enough to gain the attention of others. He agrees, but is quickly taken aback by how easy everything is with Emma.
When her father returns, threatening her with a terrible future, their courtship swiftly becomes all too real. Will James ever reveal the true man beneath the outer shell? And can Emma discover her own worthiness before it's too late?
Length: Full-Length (70,000 words)
Heat Level: Sizzling
This book is the first in The 1797 Club series.
©2017 Jesse Petersen (P)2017 Jesse PetersenListeners also enjoyed...
Good basis for the 1797 collection.
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Great story, not so great narrator
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Additionally, there were some very strange pronunciations - for example buoy was pronounced “boo ee”, so I assume this to be an American voice actress trying ‘to do’ an English accent....Yep - I have just googled the pronunciation of buoy and her pronunciation is as per an American accent!!! But the book is set in Regency England!!!!! :((
There were other really random pronunciations all very off putting and once again one needed the book to read the word that was being “totally garbled” by the American performer.
I have read all the books in the series and they are all narrated by the same performer :(
Also note to author - in England/Britain a foyer is an entrance hall or other open area in a building used by the public, especially an hotel or theatre - not a family home of whatever size.
In an English/British home we have an entrance hall - which is the room or space immediately inside the main door of a large or grand building like a stately home or townhouse.
Americanisms are a real turn off when reading a novel set in Regency England - authors should read Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell or the more recent Georgette Heyer.
The books themselves each have a very different storyline, but each woman that ‘captures’ a duke’s heart is completely OK to go in for oral sex and premarital sex. That may have been the case with a widow, but an untouched virgin would have been inculcated with stories of young women being seduced and then left at the altar.
I know one has to suspend all pretences of reality with this genre but really it would have been nice if just one of them went to their marital bed chaste and the author could then have indulged her love of mild erotica once the ring was in her finger and the couple were exploring their relationship. The fact that they don’t remain chaste just starts to become tiresome after a few books in.
The main idea is: Lady meets Duke - a bit of groping - oral sex - premarital sex - oh and let’s not bother to lock the door each time either even when they get naked!!! WHAT REALLY!!!....in the 1810s?? Even today any sane person would lock the door!
It’s a shame - I quite liked the series but the books become very ‘Samey’ after a while EVEN THOUGH they have dissimilar plots and protagonists.
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The hero and heroine both have embarrassing parents, he is also suffering from longterm child abuse.
Funnily only his mother and himself really suffer, while his sister seems a happy soul. The heroine's parents seem alot worse as both are still alive.
The story is disjointed and seems stuck together with lots of additional characters thrown in. I failed to see the romance, she has fancied him for ages, he then mets her, wants her in his bed, but not to marry. They are eventually forced into marriage and realise they love each other. I don't think, there has ever been ten Dukesin England, let alone all round the same age. No doubt that is romantic licence, but just adds another jagged part.
The narrator can't do male voices.
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