• The Taming of Annabelle

  • The Six Sisters, Book 2
  • By: M. C. Beaton
  • Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
  • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (472 ratings)

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The Taming of Annabelle

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
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His feelings toward her were warm. She turned their conversation over and over in her mind, reading into every casual answer a double meaning, hints of a growing passion that were held in check.

From the moment young Annabelle met her sister Minerva's intended, Lord Sylvester, she developed a secret passion for him that obsessed her. Now she was determined to take him away from Minerva, no matter what. But she hadn't reckoned on Sylvester's best friend, Peter, who fell in love with Annabelle and decided to tame her.

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Annabelle is tedious.

The main character is even more tedious and annoying than her sister was in the beginning of the first book.

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Not as good as the first book in the series

Book 2 of the The Six Sisters series was a disappointment to me. I really enjoyed book one, Minerva. Book 2 showcases the daughter, Annabelle who is the town beauty. Annabelle is well aware of how pretty she is. She is also incredibly childish, nasty, vengeful and spiteful. She lies and plays games. A real catty character you would not want near you in real life. I did not care what happened to her.

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Worth the listen

Like I said with book 1, the girls in this series is as naive and gullible as you can get. I am still up in smoke on whether to love them or barely like them. I believe back in this century, some women were too sheltered. Besides being young, Annabel was contrite and vain. It was all about her and what she wanted and I believe that is the idea because as much as you want to put it down, you also want to keep listening so that you know what happens in the end. Onward to book 3 for me. The narrator I have not mentioned because I am barely tolerating her and I have no choice as she is the narrator for all the books in the series.

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Too slow and not enough voice differentiation...

The story is too detailed and slow for a regency love story. Also, the narrator can't differentiate the voices enough not to be irritating. Maybe worth the credit, but not as good as the first book in the series.

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Nice romance

If you have read M.C.Beaton before you now what to expect but I like to listen to books like this just for something nice whit a warranty happy ending. In the second book of this series we get to see Annabelle grow from a spoiled jealous child to a sweet caring woman. love the Armitage sisters.

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Cute story

Cute fast read for just a flash of Romance. I would recommend this book if you just looking for some light listing.

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While the Heroine you love to Hate, there’s a surprising fabulous character

While Annabelle is childish from start to finish and her beau, the Vicount, never gets fleshed out enough to truly love….

There’s a surprisingly fabulous character duo: the father, the Reverend Charles Armitage and his bff the Squire Radford.

The reverend was introduced in the first book (Minerva’s story) as a petty and self-centered man being his only personality trait. Part of his complexity comes out by the end of that book, but he was in rare form in this one and stole the show for me.

The silly innocence of him and his chum and their odyssey to set things straight had some particularly entertaining moments that left me guffawing out loud.

They had just the right tinge of surface self-centered balanced with big hearts, old man silliness, bravado, and a tweedle-dee tweedle-dum duo that is actually why I will be listening to the next book.

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Childishly Written

first off- The reader of this story is HORRENDOUS. Her tone never matches the tone of the Book. I almost stopped Listening, it was So very BAD 👎. Bella is an immature and completely unbelievable character. She is 17, married to a 30 something Marquis, and she acts 12 throughout the entire Book. Until the very last Couple pages, when she finally acts all of 17. The narrator completely RUINS What might be salavalagable of this book. I struggled HARD to make it through to the end. It was a relief to finally make it there! This is not an adult Romance, rather a Teen Romance. I don't read "Steamy" Romance, But I do perfer more adult Characters. Honestly, 3 out of 10 stars.

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Annabelle is fun to hate

It is fun to dislike the spoiled self centered Annabelle. Her sister Minerva is wonderful. I enjoyed this story.

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The taming of annabelle

I enjoyed this audio book. I thought it was great fun watching these people acting like asses in their relationships! I wish people would be kinder to each other. this is one of my favorite authors.

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