Project Duchess

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times best-selling author Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother’s grown children who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers...and in the process find that love just might conquer all....

A series of stepfathers and a difficult childhood have left Fletcher “Grey” Pryde, fifth duke of Greycourt, with a guarded heart, enviable wealth, and the undeserved reputation of a rogue. Grey’s focus on expanding his dukedom allows him little time to find a wife. But when his mother is widowed yet again and he meets the charmingly unconventional woman managing his stepfather’s funeral, he’s shocked to discover how much they have in common. Still, Grey isn’t interested in love, no matter how pretty, or delightfully outspoken, the lady....

Beatrice Wolfe gave up on romance long ago, and the arrogant duke of Greycourt with his rakish reputation isn’t exactly changing her mind. Then Grey agrees to assist his grief-stricken mother with her latest “project”: schooling spirited, unfashionable Beatrice for her debut. Now that Beatrice is seeing through Grey’s charms to his wounded heart, she’s having trouble keeping him at arm’s length. But once Grey starts digging into her family’s secrets, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her family...or with the man whose lessons capture her heart....

“Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!” (Lisa Kleypas, New York Times best-selling author)

©2019 Sabrina Jeffries (P)2019 Recorded Books

Well done.

Good mix of romance and intrigue. The narrator did a great job of voicing each character.

not Jeffries best effort.

:very confusing at first. so many characters. the second half was much better. four stars

Great original storyline!

Loved this book, largely because Beverley Crick is such a marvelous narrator. She excels in creating male voices, as well as female ones. This love story is also a sweet one, about a duke who had a difficult childhood and a woman -- poor cousin to his half-brother-- who also has survived her own troubled past..

Family Reunion of Sorts

There are dukes a-plenty in this first of the series. Add suspicious deaths and it would seem hard to find time for love. The author, however, weaves it seamlessly into the story. This is my first book by Ms. Jeffries and it won’t be my last.
The narrator did a good job and all the male voices were different enough to be distinguishable from each other. Kudos to her for that.

Who's that Duke

Duke's, father's, step father's, brothers, cousin's, sisters, friends and a mother....This was more of who's who and not a who done it. Still still it was mildly entertaining.

But who!

I didn’t find it hard to keep the any characters straight but more a pull form the disbelief because 3 dukes in a family is silly.
the main characters had real chemistry and the their sore spots hit the others soft spots in a healing way. The love story was beautiful and believable. All the side relationships were lovely. The bothers were jovial the brother sister was loving. And under all was levels of complexity built from the realities of the situation. The author left nothing out of any of the relationships.
However there was a lot of talk of murder with out a resolution! If I wanted a straight romance I would have read one. So I guess it’s on to the next book.

Good

I enjoyed the book. I liked the premise that a woman would marry 3 Duke's in a row... that would be one heck of a woman.
The characters were likable and interesting. I like Gray because he was confident but rejected societal norms. (even though he expected others to obey them - lol). This and his emotional scars made him evenly matched to the shy, swett but unsophisticated Beatrice.

The intense attraction between the couple was portrayed in athpugh h believable, thoughtful, but sensual manner. The sexy moments were enticing but not crude.

The mystery behind the romance was intriguing but ends on a cliffhanger. I'm not a fan of that tactic. Hence, I removed one star.

Great Job!

Liked the story, it included a little of everything to keep the story interesting. The narrator was excellent!

So So

I don’t like to be too critical of a book because I couldn’t write one and I’m impressed by a writer’s ability to tell a coherent story. So this is a sort of comparison review to other novels that I have read in this genre. Compared to other romantic lead characters, I think Grey is sort of slow. He is probably the dumbest duke I have ever read about. But if you put into perspective that he is a wounded 10 year old inside, I can give him the benefit of the doubt, I guess. I just find that these characters ( Bea and Grey) fell in love too fast. I can understand an instant attraction but it seems that there wasn’t enough substance to their attraction to justify them having sex so soon, especially with Bea having been traumatized by her uncle’s harassment. Also, the sex is too much and overdone. It’s not necessary to be so explicit more than one time in the story or at all. The sex is more of a focus than the development of the relationship.

It is too convenient for Grey’s insecurities to be overcome by a few words from his mom. And Bea is too accepting of his mistrust. I just didn’t like the whole relationship. This was more like a porn film. The basic plot is just a reason to let the characters have sex. Sorry.

Got Me

Love Sabrina Jeffries. And the story did not disappoint. The only disappointment is it left me hanging now I have to do book to and from reading those reviews I’m gonna have to buy book 3. But as I said, love, the book the story.