How to Be a Proper Lady

Falcon Club Series, Book 2

De: Katharine Ashe

Narrado por: Mary Sarah

Following her sensational debut novel, Swept Away by a Kiss, author Katharine Ashe was named one of the "New Stars of Historical Romance" by the American Library Association publication Booklist. With each new book she has proven them right - and never more so than with her novel How to be a Proper Lady.

Continuing her phenomenal Falcon Club series, Ashe enchants with this tale of a woman kidnapped as a child by pirates and returned years later to her English family. She must now learn how to be a cultured lady...and to navigate the treacherous waters of love with the notorious sea captain who brought her, kicking and screaming, back to society.

This is witty, emotionally rich, and wonderfully imaginative storytelling that listeners of Lisa Kleypas, Eloisa James, and Johanna Lindsey will absolutely adore.

Contains mature themes.

©2012 Katharine Brophy Dubois (P)2018 Tantor

Why Do Romance Writers?

I hate it when these female writers victimize the female protagonist. The supposedly good guy takes advantage when she is at her most vulnerable. And it happens on the stairs. This is a strong woman who Captains a ship with a 50 man crew and she folds to her new hire whose ship she blew out of the water. He comes aboard challenging every order she gives to her crew. He disagrees and seemingly wants to take command of her ship. Why do these writers make their female leads slaves to the passion of some overbearing male? Do you really believe that all women are that easy?

Horrible narration

Had the story not been interesting, I would have returned this book. The narrator is always horrible, mispronunciations galore, but this one was especially egregious. The fake accent is annoying and I spent a lot of time correcting the pronunciation of dozens of words. She must be pretty ignorant of the world not to know that the Irish character’s name, Seamus, is not pronounced “see muss.” Or that Berkley Square in London is pronounced “Barkley”

Entertaining

I very much enjoyed this book, even though not a likely circumstance. Beautiful, smart, sexy female boat captains were not common place in the early 1800's. Ms. Ashe, however, made the story fun with clever dialogue and kept the story moving with out getting bogged down with repeating details.

What ruined this book for me was the narration. Not so much Mary Sarah as she tried to breathe life into the characters, but volume issues. I listened to this book via my Kendal, with a speaker and finally using my iPhone. If I was able to get the normal reading loud enough, then when tones went up it blew my ear drums out. I was frustrated throughout, got my best results with the use of the iPhone.

A 24 Year Old Female Ships captain

is more of a talkative bully and not very likeable. He's not the bad boy he's made out to be. After a preposterous first half and the 2 falling in love, then she turns into Eliza Doolittle and ....well I really didn't care. I got my credit back on this one.