Infinitely My Marquess

Ever Beloved, Book 3

De: Dawn Brower

Narrado por: Verona Westbrook

Some fairy tales are twisted.

As the daughter of a duke, Lady Annalise Palmer should be living a charmed life. Appearances can be deceiving, though - her father has ensured that her entire life has been filled with nothing but heartache and hardship. Happiness is an elusive emotion, and love is nonexistent. She has no reason to believe she’ll find either.

Ryan Simms, the marquess of Cinderbury, has been alone nearly his whole life. After his father died, he was abandoned by his grandfather and left in the care of his wicked stepmother. From a young age, he learned not to trust a lady and never to fall in love, especially.

They are two lost souls in search of salvation. Together, they can help each other heal, if they can believe in the possibility of happiness, and escape the torment they’ve both suffered and discover an eternal love along the way.

©2019 Dawn Brower (P)2019 Dawn Brower

Two Deserving Souls Find Each Other and Love

I've listened to two other books in this series, though not the first two. I thoroughly enjoyed one but didn't like the other. This one falls somewhere in the middle. Since I am somewhat familiar with this world, I loved meeting again the former major players in previous books. Both the hero and heroine are sympathetic characters, as neither has been treated well by their respective families growing up. So, the hero doesn't want to get entangled in any relationships and care about a female; the heroine simply cannot believe that happiness, and especially, love are possibilities for her. So she prefers to continue to live her difficult, but accustomed-to, life rather than step out of her painful “comfort zone” to perhaps find them. Excellent premise and very believable; the way the author wrote it. You couldn't help but care for both these people who have suffered for so long through no fault of their own. You can't choose the family you're born into! I wish the author had spent a little more time exploring how they shifted these very strong, fixed, long-term mindsets to being open to a relationship. Given their firm stances, the speed with which they changed their minds was implausible. But I adored the characters, and one villain got his comeuppance. I always love that in a book. This story might be a little confusing to you if you're not already familiar with this series, but if you just stick with it, these characters are so charming that you can't help but get involved in their story despite, perhaps, possible confusion. Recommended.

Reverse Cinderella

This is the third book in the beloved series. You can listen as a stand-alone and still love the story but trust me you wont want to miss Hannah and Estella’s stories! I was so happy to see Annalise finally get her happy ending after everything she did for Estella.Lord Cinderbury lived a reverse Cinderella story yet is such an honorable man despite all the wrong done to him. Thanks goodness for medaling grandmothers so these To could finally admit they loved each other. Very enjoyable read. I highly recommend a fire and a cup of tea while you lose your self in their story. Verona Westbrook’s does an excellent job bring Ryan and Annalise’s story to life. She doesn’t a great job moving in and out of the characters. I thought her performance was flawless.

Overall Lovely Story!

I have to admit I was excited when I was approved to review this book, because as much as I love historical romance, I have never listened to a historical on audiobook. It was an absolutely delightful experience and I will certainly be picking up more historical audiobooks from here on out.

The writing of this book was very good. It leaned less away from the traditional historical romance style that I find quiet often, and had more of a true historic sounding voice. In fact, the writing reminded me of a modern Georgette Heyer, which I don't often find in historicals. I saw another review mentioned there could have been more dialogue, but I personally did not find this to be an issue.

For being such a short book, this book had excellent pacing. The romance was drawn out just enough to be enjoyable and it wasn't jumped right into, which I appreciated. I wouldn't have minded a longer book, and I did have a few issues with the ending, but overall, it was a pleasant experience.

The characters were fantastic for such a short book as well; I liked how the themes of abuse were covered in both Ryan and Annalise's stories, it allowed both characters to instantly become more fleshed out for such a short book. Additionally, I thought the hints of Cinderella in this story were very fun and subtle.

Lastly, because I listened to this on audio, I thought that the narrator (Verona Westbrook) did a decent job, though I didn't think her voice was suited for this book. It wasn't because she was a bad narrator by any means, I just felt that her voice took a lot away from the characters' stories and made it less enjoyable for me to read, hence the 3.75 stars (with the narration I just couldn't quite give it the full four stars.)

Bad Families Plague Good Regency Characters

Two characters with Cinderella-esque families become involved in this short pleasant Regency romance. Entertaining

Heart melting

This story had my heart melting. The characters meshed so well. These two have a chance encounter. And fate see fit to make sure it happens again. These two characters are the perfect match for each other. They neber knew they needed each other, but the way they come to each other is just heart melting. This story has a nice flow with a HEA ending. The narrator did an amazing job of taking you back in time to experience this little romance.