• Think of England

  • By: KJ Charles
  • Narrated by: Tom Carter
  • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (430 ratings)

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Think of England

By: KJ Charles
Narrated by: Tom Carter
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Lie back and think of England....

England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless, and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage.

Curtis's search takes him to an isolated, ultra-modern country house, where he meets and instantly clashes with fellow guest Daniel da Silva. Effete, decadent, foreign, and all-too-obviously queer, the sophisticated poet is everything the straightforward British officer fears and distrusts.

As events unfold, Curtis realizes that Daniel has his own secret intentions. And there's something else they share - a mounting sexual tension that leaves Curtis reeling.

As the house party's elegant facade cracks to reveal treachery, blackmail, and murder, Curtis finds himself needing clever, dark-eyed Daniel as he has never needed a man before....

Warning: Contains explicit male/male encounters, ghastly historical attitudes, and some extremely stiff upper lips.

©2014 KJ Charles (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

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Lie back and enjoy!

I haven’t read many historical m/m romances – a handful if even that really. They just never really called my name – that is until I picked up Robby Riverton: Mail Order Bride a couple of months ago. I then realized there was a whole new genre for me to explore! And word on the block is that KJ Charles is the one to read for this genre. So said and done, Think of England and I were going on a date.

Two years ago Captain Archie Curtis’s life changed, he lost his fingers, his friends and fellow soldiers along with his military career. All due to a batch of malfunctioning guns. Determined to get to the bottom of it all and make the responsible party pay – if indeed there was a guilty party, he starts to investigate. His search leads him far into the country, and a very modern, but isolated country house.

While a guest, he meets Daniel da Silva, a queer poet that ruffles all Curtis’s proper feathers. After all one can hardly expect a gentleman from the army to have anything in common with the femme and limp wristed man with questionable morals, now can you? That is until he catches the poet breaking into the same library as he, and just maybe they are after the same information. What they find is a tale of blackmail and murder and more danger than either of them expected.

I enjoyed listening to this book. It was kind of fun to watch Curtis flounder a bit when da Silva got under his skin. And he did it so splendidly – and often. Another thing that I enjoyed was Curtis coming to terms with who he was, his sexuality, and accepting it. It was all portrayed quite believably, it wasn’t overdone but fit the era, as did the ending – their beginning.

Tom Carter narrated this book really well. He captured that stiff British upper class to perfection, but he also managed to portray the more femme and swishy Daniel da Silva. He brought me to UK, back in time and into the adventures of Curtis and sa Silva

All in all, I’m not going to abandon my preferences for contemporary romances, but I will definitely continue to pick up a historical romance every now and then, because it seems I have missed out!

A copy of this book was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review for Love Bytes.

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And listening just adds to the pleasure.

KJ Charles is an amazing storyteller creating vivid images of times and places.This historical romance fits the time and place that it portrays like a glove: prejudices, entitlements, societal blinds pot, are all handled with a deft hand. Then,just when you think it can't get any better we add Tom Carter's narration. ... Let's just say I'll be listening, again.

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  • 11-11-17

an unexpected delight!

I found out this favorite KJ Charles book came out as an audiobook by happy surprise. Any offering by KJ Charles by Audible is a delight, but this delivers on great narration, good characters and strong chemistry. The main character Archie is a wounded war hero trying to determine if his accident was caused by treachery and finds an unlikely ally in the bohemian Danielle. Set against a very British house party, the two discover dark secrets and a strong attraction. I found Archie's quintessential British chap to have a compelling storyline in self discovery as he slowly adapts to an understanding of himself as attracted to men. The period prejudices are a little startling to hear but are important to the plot so not there just for shock value. Danielle acts as a quicksilver foil to Archie's self realization, and the sex scenes show how opposites can fit together in the end. All this is managed with a deft touch by Tom Carter as the narrator. Am hopeful it is the start of a series and even more hopeful that other books by Charles, particularly the Charm of Magpies series, will also get audible versions.

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Slightly squicky, but with redeeming qualities

Pros: very good reader, with a pleasant voice and good distinction between characters. It's also refreshing to have a strong, intelligent, and attractive love interest, who is fairly femme, no less.

Cons: the ending, with Archie refusing to take no for an answer, is in character for him but still gross.

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my least favorite book by this author

very poor character development. I never saw the connection these 2 had. some attraction. a little gay awakening. that's not really a "romance."
and I REALLY didn't like the performance. his accent was really off putting. at first I thought maybe it was an intentional south african/English hybrid and was briefly impressed, but i found his web site and nope that's just his voice. it's way too careful. it sounds like he worked too hard with a speak therapist to be "correct " and it's awkwardness really hurt my ability to get into the story. obviously. it's not normal to stop a book and research the reader's accent.

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funny, engaging & sexy.

This was such a good story. Intrigue. Romance. Sex. Fights to the death!! Characters and choices seemed real and believable, and the voice acting was fantastic. would 100% reccomend.

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It was like Sherlock Holmes but even gayer!

As a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this one was a pretty entertaining listen. Don't get me wrong, this one won't be talked about next century, but it follows that murder mystery, blackmail, who done it vibe that had it's intense moments and left me going out to my car on my lunch breaks to listen to what happens to our heros next. While the reading was pretty standard, some of the affected lines were annoying and distracting. This would be a good story for your collection if you like a gay murder mystery and can tolerate a few explicit scenes.

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Lovely romance; the dark side of the house party

In many ways, this book evoked my growing up years reading English house party mysteries from Christie, Sayers, Marsh and other Golden Age writers. But this added a delightful romance and a leading man in Archie who was very relatable. I enjoyed it both in print and on Audible - wonderful narration!

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  • 09-08-23

Lovely, Raw (and more)

If you mind epithets or swear words actually being used rather than referred to, you might not find this lovely- it doesn’t come up that much but if you’re offended by appropriately used words which are raw, be warned, this sweet romance does not pull punches when it comes to prejudice.

If you have any problem with characters being profoundly imperfect and solving things in ways which play fast and loose with consent in a way which works in fiction, you might wonder why I adore this and call it a romance. It’s to my taste, it’s funny, violent, clever, raw, delicate, visceral, enchanting *fiction*. And it’s romantic as hell.

I waited to read it because I was not sure if I wanted, as a disabled person, to have to deal with Curtis coping with being injured, even fictionally, but it worked for me. I was fairly relieved about that. Figuring himself out in other ways was charming and straight-forward, as far as I am concerned.

There was as much intrigue and violence as needed for the story, not excessive, and not exactly the point of the story *for me* although I was repeatedly delighted by small touches and twists in the plot which supported this love story.

Realistic for cloak and dagger stuff? No clue, but didn’t seem important. That may have gotten my attention at first but I stayed for an impossibly strong cripple (THANK YOU KJ CHARLES) and the implausibly vulnerable poet who just happens to have an interesting way of paying the rent. Considering that some of Charles’ work seems to fall into meter and rhyme now and then, it was fun to see a poet as protagonist.

The voice acting took me a while to get the hang of, and since some characters specifically change their speech or in some cases imitate or mock each other in different accents, attention has to be paid- it’s worth it. It’s a remarkable performance, which just gets better and better as we see different aspects of the characters portrayed.

I won a bet with myself about the identity of someone, and no doubt that has colored my attitude toward this book. There’s enough there without the Easter eggs though. In my opinion it’s worth tracking down the shorter works associated with this series, but not at all necessary to enjoy this book.

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Slow, dry start, but . . .

Once it got going, it was another excellent romance by KJ Charles. My only other gripe was the narrator’s dry monotone at points

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