The Beast of Beswick

The Regency Rogues

De: Amalie Howard

Narrado por: Nina Nato

Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world - especially smart-mouthed harpies (with lips better suited to kissing than speaking) who brave his castle with indecent proposals.

But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself. And by offer, she means what no highborn lady of sound and sensible mind would ever dream of - a tender of marriage with her as his bride.

©2019 Amalie Howard (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Take as old as time

It may have been a tale as old as time, but the way it was told warmed my heart to no end I rated this 555. The story was brilliant. The narration was Fabulous . The overall rating was miraculous. I am a sucker for Beauty and the Beast , the Disney version and this one. It was so good that I really did not even realize I was listening to the same story, very fresh , very enlightening and beautifully told.

Loved every single min of this.

Voicing done so week, no accidental switches no missing genre or character. The flow and life was perfect. I (Lindsey) absolutely loved it. I’m a sucker for the B&B sub genre and this one was done so very very well. I’d love to see a novella follow up on the school and the investigation and any money put into helping the wounded and killed groups families. ❤️❤️ A+ 10/10

Meh. Propaganda.

The premise seemed promising. The writing was fine. The heavy handed feminist propaganda made me gag. Ugh. Time I’ll never get back.

Adore! ❤️

The best beauty and the beast retelling I’ve ever read! Delicious heat, strong heroine, brooding hero, all mixed into a brilliant love story that made my heart swoon!

Pretty enjoyable Regency romance

So I’m going to start with my issues with this book:
(1) the whiplash, Thane went back and forth between giving the romance a chance only to push his wife away time and again. On the one hand I loved that she didn’t give up, on the other, women who allow men to shit on them time and again kinda piss me off too: fool me twice sort of thing. I suspect that this back and forth was for more smecks on the page… I really dislike sacrificing story just for smecks, it should be organic and fit in the story, not fitting the story around the smecks.
(2) number 1 would not have been as big a deal with some better characterization and more showing than telling. We are told a lot about how damaged Thane is but don’t see it: we don’t get flashbacks of his injuries, residual pain, PTSD, rejection from ladies after his injuries. I think if we had gotten more of that it would have helped the story. Like for example: WHY didn’t he want kids? I literally have NO idea!
All that being said, and in spite of my suspicions about the term “patriarchy” being bandied about in Regency England, I did enjoy the book, it had a good pace and i was interested in the resolution. I loved the heroine for the most part and it had a good premise. The epilogue was lovely and satisfying.