A Minor Inconvenience

De: Sarah Granger

Narrado por: Dan Calley

A French musket ball to the leg takes Captain Hugh Fanshawe from the battlefield and leaves him enduring long, quiet days compiling paperwork at Horse Guards headquarters. He knows his lameness makes him the object of pity and distaste at the stifling social engagements he dutifully escorts his mother and sister to, but everything in his orderly life changes when Colonel Theo Lindsay arrives.

Theo is everything Hugh is not. He's a man of physical perfection and an enjoyable companion, and their friendship deepens into love. But when the army suspects there's a French spy at Horse Guards, Hugh discovers nothing is as it seems, and the paper he shuffles daily could save his lover's life.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Sarah Granger (P)2022 Tantor

Must read!

Omg I love this book. Hopefully it’s a series! 10/10 I highly recommend. It’s such a a cute story that turns tense but a guaranteed HEA (no real xx scenes but still perfect)

Lacked feeling romance

I can’t say how long I’ve waited for a M/M regency romance. I’ve read every one Audible has to offer, and Dan Calley the narrator wow. I’m just disappointed. Yes there was romance but no heat. It was a cozy romance. I wanted to hear their getting together. The holding and all the beauty. Nope nothing zilcho no way. I was disappointed. Why are there no heated m/m regency romance that’s come out in the last 8 years or more? I’m really sad. Oh well I loved Dan Calley. Wont listen to another Sarah granger book. We’re done!

Meh story and narrator

Narrator was not great at enunciating and seemed to slur his word throughout. The result was this odd monotone. Not sure if that’s why the story was boring or it was just meh writing. But it was free so I finished it.

not as engaging as I'd hoped

The plit was slow moving and drug at times and the flat narration certainly didn't help. The premise of the story was promising but all in all, it's a very dry read and was hard to work my way through

Worth the credit

I’m sorry to see that this seems to be the only book this author ever wrote. I looked her up both on Audible end on Kindle and couldn’t find anything else. This book was funny, sweet, engaging, and clever. The main character is extremely likable and it’s fun to see the world through his completely oblivious eyes. It’s a skilled author who can write in such a way that the audience sees what’s going on even though the POV character hasn’t got a clue, without stepping out of the POV character’s head. Enjoy this one, it’s worth a credit and a reread.

Great!

Great story, characters, historical accuracy, plot twists all add up to a really great read!

Very excited to see this released on audio!

I'm a sucker for a gay Regency romance. Unfortunately for me, although you can find a decent number of them, very few are actually any good. The vast majority contain a lot of whatever the male equivalent of "bodice-ripping" would be, and even more (cough Cat Sebastian cough) are full of anachronistic political posturing. Very few are written with a good sense of place or a well-paced plot that doesn't serve as an excuse to get two guys in Beau Brummell fashion together in the same room where they can paw at each other.

So a few years ago I was happy to read Sarah Granger's "A Minor Inconvenience" on kindle, which I found to be an excellent read altogether; but, as the book was written quite a while ago and the author doesn't seem to have written much else since then, I was pretty sure it would never be released on audiobook, which is my preferred format. When I saw the audiobook in the new releases on Audible--and with the excellent Dan Calley as narrator, no less--I was so pleasantly surprised that it put me in a good mood for the rest of the day, even before I had a chance to listen.

The book is written from the point of view of an extraordinarily likable protagonist, Hugh Fanshawe, and chronicles his budding romance with Theo Lindsay. Hugh is handsome but has been wounded in battle and is resigned to his quiet, bashful existence, until he makes the acquaintance of Theo, a dashing military hero. Hugh's earnestness carries the novel; his bumbling foray into romance is both funny and incredibly endearing. The writing is just fantastic in general and the setting is also wonderfully realized. A lot of Regency novels (gay or straight) feel like you could transport the characters into a modern setting with very little changed about the story. This book, however, is about two men who exist in a certain time and place, if that makes any sense, and that comes across wonderfully in this novel. In the 21st century they would be two different men. There's also quite a bit of the Napoleonic Wars in the background, and sometimes the foreground (including a bit of intrigue which could have been much less welcome if the book weren't so well written). My only criticism might be that the two protagonists' relationship was a bit more vaguely defined at the end of the novel than I usually prefer (I would love a sequel).

The only other review available at this time complains that the romance is "cozy," which, to be fair, it is. In fact the whole book is cozy, like any escape into another time should be. I hope that this audiobook release heralds a return to writing for Sarah Granger, since "A Minor Inconvenience" easily stands alongside the best in the m/m Regency genre, and is certainly the best to be released on audiobook so far. It gives me hope that audiobook versions of, say, Lydia Gastrell's "Indulgence" series or some of Adella Harris's series may someday be released. In the meantime this one will hold a permanent spot in my rotation of "read again" books.

Love this book

I read and reread this book many times over the years, so to find it now on audio is amazing.

This is not just a love story but one about honor, friendship, family and trust.
All these characters have so many layers I find myself really invested in all of the lives not just Hugh's.

Dan Calley really did a wonderful job with all the voices in this story.