Tall, Duke, and Dangerous

A Hazards of Dukes Novel

By: Megan Frampton

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Megan Frampton returns with the second book in the Hazards of Dukes series, a series that made Sarah MacLean say "Make Megan Frampton your next read!"

He needs a bride…

Nash, the “dangerous” Duke of Malvern, has always bristled against the rules of English society. Hot tempered and fearful of becoming like his brutish late father, he lives a life of too much responsibility and too little joy. And although he’s vowed to never marry, a duke has a duty—and there’s only one way to get himself an heir and a spare. So Nash reluctantly takes a look around at society’s available young ladies to see who might be willing to put up with his one-word answers and frequent glowers.

She longs for love…

After the death of her father and wicked stepmother, Ana Maria goes from virtual servant to lady-in-training, and while society life has its benefits—gorgeous gowns!—its restrictive rules stifle her sprit. And when her independent actions put her in danger, her half-brother insists Nash teach her some self-defense. While most of London’s ladies find Nash intimidating, she only sees a man who needs introducing to all the joys life has to offer. So although officially they are coming together for fighting lessons, unofficially their physical contact begins to blur the line between friendship and begins to grown into something more…

©2020 Megan Frampton (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Great listen.

As always they get the message before it's too late.
Or just before it's too late
I like Jilly Bond.

Good read.

I enjoyed this read, however, I wished there was less time on idle “mind speak”.

I wanted to like it, but...

I read the first novel about Sebastian, liked the story but found the narration to be awful. It took me a while to go forward and to listen to Nash's story. Again the story could have been entertaining, but narration ruined it and I barely made it to the end.

In truth, Jilly Bond has a delightful reading voice and does not do too bad on the female voices. Her problem lies with male voices and she makes the men sound really stupid. Her forte would be to do dual narration with a male for male voices.

Unfortunately, I will not be listening to the rest of the series simply because paying for an unenjoyable experience is like throwing money away.

I thoroughly dislike Narrator, Jilly Bond!

Oh gosh! The narrator was awful and did not know how to read! I could see (and almost feel) the spit coming out of her mouth as she narrated! Yuck! When the author said something like " He said disheartened" - The narrator, Jilly Bond, would make it sound like the man was crying! I did look iked the way she used that crying technique in several places throughout the book!! It was like fingernails on a chalkboard!
The story was dumb, too!