Storming the Castle: An Original Short Story

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. What Miss Phillipa Damson needs is a good, old fashioned knight in shining armor. What she has is a fiancé she never wanted and a compelling urge to run away. But if she manages to escape, will she find her happily ever after?

DELIGHTFUL

I wish it were longer. This was a happy romance about a young woman determined to control her own destiny. It was funny, never was there a dull moment and performed by one of my favorite narrator's.

nicola barber should not be reading for audible books

great story worst narration ever. why you have to read a story out loud double time is beyond me. and my God do not try to do accents you're awful at it. beyond that it's Eloisa James. everything else was amazing.

great ending of series

i enjoyed it, incorporated characters well and was a good story, a little too much self doubt but still enjoyed

So Sweet

A great listen The story, the characters, the narrator.
I LOVED the mother-in-law, she was hyserical.
It's great when a romance novel has LOL scenes.

3 ½ stars. Sweet, nice, enjoyable romance story.

STORY BRIEF:
Phillipa and Rodney had been friends since childhood. Their parents want them to marry. Phillipa does not want to marry Rodney and runs away. She loves babies and hears that the nearby Prince and his bride have a newborn baby with problems. Phillipa goes there to work as the baby’s nursemaid. She meets Wick the butler. Wick is the Prince’s half brother. He feels he can never marry a lady due to his servant-station in life.

REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I liked Phillipa’s actions and conversation when she arrived at the castle and did things for the baby. The story and how it resolved was good. It’s a short story - maybe a fourth of the length of a regular book. The narrator was excellent. There were two sex scenes which were ok, but don’t expect hot. The purpose was showing relationships, not to steam up the reader.

This book can be read as a stand-alone, but it’s better if you read “A Kiss at Midnight” first. I enjoyed getting to know Wick in the first book which flowed into this book.

Genre: regency romance.