Seduction & Scandal

By: Charlotte Featherstone

Narrated by: Helen Stern

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage—even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black… whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.

Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl. Yet as he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past and kisses that consume her, Isabella fears she will succumb.

If only the earl could tell Isabella the truth. With very real, and treacherous, thieves endangering her life, Black will need to protect Isabella from the very people she trusts the most.

©2011 Charlotte Featherstone (P)2011 Harlequin Enterprises

Couldn't finish it.

Any additional comments?

I felt like the main characters story just keep going round and round and didn't move forward I was bored with it and couldn't finish tha narrator was good at least.

Repetitive, boring, did not finish it

What would have made Seduction & Scandal better?

Less repetition and a more empathy developed main character.

What was most disappointing about Charlotte Featherstone???s story?

The repetition of the word death without an explanation for the fascination for the same, except that he was seductive.

What aspect of Helen Stern???s performance would you have changed?

Nothing. The failure of this endeavor was not hers.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Seduction & Scandal?

It needs a complete rewrite with more character development.

Any additional comments?

Is it possible to get a refund?

Ultimately annoying and idiotic

What disappointed you about Seduction & Scandal?

Garbled storyline that can't decide if it is action/mystery/gothic thriller/or romance with a little bit of Gollem's "my precious" thrown in for good measure. It is a mess. The primary and secondary characters are more or less undeveloped and two dimensional and actually become less engaging and attractive as the story unfolds.

Would you ever listen to anything by Charlotte Featherstone again?

I tried one other and it wasn't much better. Returned a third title unread.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Seduction & Scandal?

It needed a complete overhaul.

So disappointed!!!

Where do I begin and how much can I say without giving much away... the narrator was absolutely horrible! Her accent sounded more southern than English and at times even a little Scottish. It was also hard to distinguish between characters, even males and female sometimes. There was way too much other stuff going on in the book that it didn’t quite feel like a romance. There was no good dialogue between the two that helped them fall in love. In fact there was way too much denial and stubbornness and being stupid! Her whole argument is she grew up poor with no steady man for her mom who had too much passion so instead of wanting a wealthy earl who desired her she’d rather risk life with a curator because there’s no passion? I thought she was worried about being poor and security??? So many things I don’t like about this book I can go on for pages. Most books I can’t wait to get the chance to listen but not this one. I dreaded it because it annoyed me so much but knew the sooner I listened the sooner I’d finish and move on. I already had the second book in series in my library but I’ll be deleting it. Even the love making scenes were confusing!!!

Bad writing, cliched, one dimensional characters

This book does not succeed as a period romance or an erotic period romance -- Stephanie Laurens does so much better on both fronts, especially her Cynster series. I thought the mystery was too contrived and unbelievable, there was no real suspense. The writer never made me care about the characters -- I liked the supporting cast better than the two main lovers

Cliffhanger and not a good one

I could not wait for this to be over. If I heard 'death' one more time, I think I would have screamed. Also, no resolution to any plot lines. What a waste of my time, because the only reason I continued to listen was to find out who was behind everything.

Too Depressing

I guess I’m not a gothic novel fan. One review said if you’d never read a gothic novel, but liked Jane Eyre, you’d like this. I couldn’t get past the first poem about dancing with Death that starts chapter 1.