Somebody to Love

By: Kate Rothwell

Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's Summary

Above all others

Everything Griffin Calverson ever touched turned to gold, but his worldly success has only isolated him. Despite his millions, he is essentially alone and sworn to remain so - until he meets Araminta Woodhall, whose sultry beauty sets his heart on fire. Griffin loves her beyond all reason - though by the rules of his social circle, they cannot marry. But Araminta will not agree to be merely his mistress.

Against all odds

Raised in humble circumstances, Araminta has grown strong in the face of adversity - her courage and pride have always gotten her through. But Griffin Calverson may be her only weakness - and her only refuge in an unforgiving world. She can't seem to tell him goodbye...and she will settle for nothing less than all his love.

©2015 Kate Rothwell (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Somebody to Love

Stephanie Cannon did a superb (5star) job of bringing to life the characters in this intriguing romance written by Kate Rothwell. I'd say they both deserve 5 stars for not only the performance but also the creativity written into the story and the characters themselves. It's a wonderful, steady moving story that holds your interest until the very last page. I liked that the plot was well thought out and the storyline original. Having listened to the audible version first, I can easily say I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and whole heartedly recommend it to my friends. Kate Rothwell writes the types of romance novels I can get lost in. She's an excellent, creative writer!

Wow!! I think I may love this book!

I really liked the book in series before this one so I decided to continue on and I think this story is even better! The leading lady is strong, capable and knows her own mind. She doesn’t need a man to save her and I love that! It was also a really nice and interesting change to read a book from this era about a woman is interracial pursuing an interracial relationship. It was so good that I’m already ready to listen to it again.

Girl Power

What I love about this author besides her superb writing is that all the female characters are strong heroines who take no shit from any man where most regency books do not.

Not as good as the first one

Not sure I would have wanted to use a credit on this one. The first half was good — engaging, interesting. Heroine and hero were also intriguing and different. Araminta is 1/4 black and Griffin is the rich brother our heroine from the first story. He has always been intrigued by the only woman who challenges him with criticism — because he is so rich all the people around him are toadies. A bit of a typical set-up on the criticism part. Rothwell sets story in NY and stays away from “ton” high society settings, as she did in the first story, and that is refreshing. The problem is that she seemed to run out of things to say or perhaps she just kept saying the same thing over and over. We had to watch the heroine for almost half the book avoid going to bed with the hero (having already done so in the first half of the book) because he wanted her to be his mistress and she didn’t want to be a “whore”. We also get very little about NY during that time period (we got a lot of that in the prior book in the series, here there is almost nothing — it could have been set on the moon). We do learn a fair amount about Araminta (who she is and her past) but Rothwell didn’t do a very good job on Griffin. He remains wooden and basically unknown, except when he is taken with passion and strategizing about how to get Araminta back into bed — that’s about all that goes on in his inner dialogue. SPOILER: toward the end Araminta agrees to be Griffin’s lover but not for money. Seems that could have happened during the first half of it the book and the mystery/danger part, Griffin’s character, NYC and the story more generally could have been better fleshed out. We never really understand what caused the issues between hero and bad guy except at the most superficial level. SPOILER: instead the bad guy disappears for quite a while in the last third of the book until the heroine purposely walks right back into his clutches at which point he is easily vanquished. Thus the second half fell apart for me. I’m not sure I would have been happy about spending a credit. The first of this 2 book series was definitely better. On the other hand, the heroine is quite unusual and the setting remains refreshing.

wonderful, clean story!

Thank you for not revealing ALL of the intimacy as they felt it! I tire of the steamy sex novels that don't leave anything out! All that is not needed, and your novel was wonderful!

It was ok.

I was slightly disappointed with this book. I felt like it had more potential. Also, The main character is from a previous book, and it seemed like much of her no nonsense spunky nature vanished. There were some interesting plot details, and lovely moments within the story, but some things felt a bit forced.
In this book The narrator seemed to occasionally get lost between the voices she uses for a few of the characters... particularly those of the two main female characters.
Still a relatively diverting book.

A great listen!

I am new to the romance genre. This was by all
means a great introduction to it. I loved the historical aspect and enjoyed the character interaction and character development. The characters were human, nothing conjured about them. The tension created both between characters and within story plot was well done. Stephanie Cannon, too, did an excellent job as narrator. I’m looking forward to listening to more of Ms. Rothwell’s books.

Somebody to Love

Loved the book. The author did not disappoint given another great story. Loved the dialog and the narration.

Great story

Really enjoyed the story and the narration. I will definitely look for more Kate Rothwell books

So boring

I really liked the first in this series, Somebody Wonderful. It was delightful, fun, sweet, a little different than other historical books I've read, and I fell in love with the H and the h. I also liked Araminta and was curious about Griffin so looked forward to this book. I wondered through the whole book why I kept listening, it was so boring. Araminta was a different character than she was in the first book in my opinion. I had found her in the first book bold, kind, fearless, wise and adventuresome. In this book she is pretty meek, frightened of others opinions, foolish, and trying to be oh so proper. But the thing I disliked the most about her, as I do ANY heroine in ANY romance, is when they lose their scruples, conviction, critical thinking ability, when I man touches them. She had one moment, tiny moment, of boldness in this book. The rest of the time she was a quivering, doubtful, swooning female... intolerable to me. Griffen is a wealthy, cold, somewhat ruthless business man. Their story, could have been SO interesting, so electrifying and moving.. it simple was not, at all. Griffin spent the whole book wanting to make her his mistress and playing out a supposed plan of attack for that. I'm so disappointed.

Something Missing

The magic didn’t continue from book one. The subplot, which could have and should have been more intriguing, wittered away to an aside, when it could have been more rousing.

The plot of the story also held promise - Ariante had more personality and fire in book one and Griffin came across as more impressive.

Something was missing in this, but I can’t put my finger on it. It could be that the cast of supporting characters were not as fully rounded out, or as endearing as the previous characters (but given who they were, I guess that endearing would not have sat well).