Jack

Jaded Gentlemen Series, Book 4

By: Grace Burrowes

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's Summary

Sir John Dewey Fanning (Jack to his familiars) is magistrate in a corner of Oxfordshire plagued by one incident of petty mischief after another. To add to his aggravation, his matchmaking mama is due for a prolonged visit, just when his domestic staff is at sixes and sevens.

Jack turns to Miss Madeline Hennessey both to organize his household and to serve as his mother's temporary companion, despite the fact that he's long harbored feelings for the ever-competent (and lovely!) Miss Hennessey. Madeline reluctantly accepts the position, and proximity leads to investigations of an amorous nature. Can Jack stop the crime spree and steal Madeline's heart, too?

Contains mature themes.

©2016 Grace Burrowes (P)2017 Tantor

Mystery to go with the romance

Nice to have a historical romance where the realities of poverty and discrimination pay a very natural, not-in-your-face role in the story. No aristocrats magically waving their wealth and power around, but a very real dilemma and mystery to solve keeping our lovers apart. Our hero acts like a hero and does real man stuff, while being courteous and decent.

I've played this one at least twice already and it's a real keeper. The narrator is awesome, too. I'm totally hooked on James Langton's voice. He totally sinks me into the story.

Love the ethical and moral issues that go into being a magistrate and the idiocies of small town life. The dart tournament and their obsession with the prize jar, the arrogant doctor... I want more stories from this family!

Only the mystery kept me curious

Slow unfolding and yet another male focused on his lust and what he called his breeding organ. Spare us. But it was free and the sub mysteries give it some interest. The narrator is good during dialog, but his sing-song, monotone narrative might be partially to blame for me feeling it was slow. The intimate references and scenes were cringy, especially as they got longer and more detailed, so I skipped those parts and will probably avoid this author again.

Love A Grace Burrows Gentleman

I simply adore everything Grace Burrowes’s writes. I’ve read 80% of her catalog and there’s not one dud in the bunch. Jack’s story is no different.

A sound plot and good, rounded characters

Burroughs creates entertaining plots and this one is excellent. Her characters are fully-realized. Although the author sometimes overdoes the sex scenes, this one is more realistic and therefore more relatable.

A perfect hero

It's wonderful to enjoy a regency romance written fo adults. There's sex but it's part of the story and not merely for titillation. Jack is pretty close to the perfect man and the narrator made him even more attractive.

A breath of escapism from the everyday blues!

The characters are well defined in the narration, it’s not Shakespeare but a lovely light novel to enjoy and escape for a while! I enjoy Grace Burrowes and this reader is skilled in his definition of the plot and the nuances.

Easy to read, Easy to listen to.

Typically cross-section of village life, where people who have known each other all their lives live and squabble. In the middle of all this the hero and heroine get to know each other, rather than being nodding strangers. As there story develops, the village is also genital take some lessons., supposed theft is the root of all the problems.

lovely romance

easy to listen ,written will and as always Grace Burrow's books are very enjoyably compulive rearing.