The Viscount Who Lived down the Lane

By: Elizabeth Boyle

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's Summary

In New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Boyle's fourth novel in the Rhymes with Love series, a resolute young woman goes toe-to-toe with the Beast of Mayfair

She has no desire for love....

As she arrives in Mayfair, Louisa Tempest is horrified when her incorrigible cat bolts from the carriage and dashes into a neighbor's house, where she comes face-to-face with the reclusive Viscount Wakefield. But even more dismaying than his foul temper is the disarray in which she finds his home. Convinced his demeanor would improve if his household were in order, Louisa resolves to put everything to rights.

...until she meets the viscount who lives down the lane

Much to his chagrin, Wakefield finds it impossible to keep the meddling Louisa out of his home, invading his daily life with her "improvements", and his nights with the tempting desires she sparks inside him. Wounded in the war, he's scorned society ever since his return - until Louisa opens the door to his heart and convinces him to give love a second chance.

©2014 Elizabeth Boyle (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

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Listened for Fun (Audible)
Overall Rating: 4.50
Story Rating: 4.25
Character Rating: 4.75

Audio Rating: 4.00 (not part of the overall rating)

First Thought when Finished: The Viscount Who Lived down the Lane by Elizabeth Boyle was an emotionally fun read!

Read It File It Thoughts (short review): This was my kind of historical romance: issues dealt with, spunky leading lady (with a bit of a meddlesome personality), damaged leading man (war damage), and a story that made me both laugh & tear up! Miss Tempest is going down as one of my favorite leading ladies!

Audio Thoughts:

Narrated By Susan Duerden / Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins


I am a fan of Susan's narration skills. She has great pacing! She can make spunky characters shine and her male voices aren't bad either. Historical romance and her voice are a great match!

A adorable ecape from every day life .

A adorable escape from every day life, I liked this story and the heroin was adorable the story was entertaining and I enjoyed it, and the ending was the way I like it.
I gave it 5 stars because it was enjoyable to listen to and the Narrated was very good which makes it even better.

Fall in love all over again!

The cat is worth the price of a credit, a great story just adds icing on a lovely cake! Listen, laugh and prepare to fall in Love!

Wonderful..

Any additional comments?

Love, love, loved Pierson and Louisa. Loved that he was so hard-hearted and she was so stubborn. Loved Lord Charlton, Amy, Tuck, Lavinia, Mrs. Perchell and Tiploft. And I really loved Bits and Bob. Great names for two sweet kids. I liked Hannibal, what a cat attitude.
Great story with not too much angst, I hate when there's too much angst. Not as much heat in it, no sexual tension to speak of, (mostly Louisa's inner thought of how his kisses made her feel) just two different scenes of gratuitous sex/sexual acts. If you're not going to have sexual tension why have sex? However, I enjoyed the story so much it didn't bother me too much.

As to the narrator: I never get tired of listening to Susan Duerden. She reads with emotion and the men sound like men. That's all I can ask for.

Familiar theme - average story

Twin girls come to London for their season. One, named Louisa, who has a ugly cat named Hannibal, meets the Viscount next door when the cat gets away and runs into his house. Louisa is a manager who likes order. The Viscount is a crippled ex soldier who has PSTD and is a recluse. Louisa keeps intruding on the Viscount to manage his home and he keeps ordering her out. Lots of problems for each of them lurks in their backgrounds. Buf of course they are extremely attracted to one another and perhaps she can cure his depression and PSTD. You know the story.

The narrator is very good performing this book, as she always is. She is very talented. The only thing I did not like was the loud scream she gave for the cat Hannibal. It jangled on my nerves.

All new

I’ve enjoyed this book and is very happy to know there are other will be getting them soon.

Listen and Enjoy

Loved it even from the beginning. Loved Hannibal. Hated that cow who butted in.

Great Series

This is one of those series that you can't put down. I highly recommend it, and any other of Ms. Boyle's work.

Sadly

i found myself so irritated by the narrators breathy style of reading that I couldn't get past the second chapter and have returned the book. Won't be listening to any other titles narrated by Susan Duerden