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Title: A Marriage of Inconvenience

Subtitle: The Endearing Young Charms, Book 3

Author: M. C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney

Narrator: Charlotte Anne Dore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A marriage of convenience becomes a rollicking adventure in this historical romance.

He stated quite bluntly - and much to Isabella's relief - that theirs would be a marriage in name only. But neither Harry nor Isabella was aware of the other's disguise - contrived in vain to thwart the impending nuptials. Isabella was not the selfish ice princess she seemed, nor was Harry a mincing dandy but rather a merry profligate. A search for buried treasure and a thwarted suitor out for revenge add adventure to the marital mayhem, as two hearts discover that love lies no further than the nearest kiss.

Members Reviews:

The Funniest and Most Fun!

This is a perfectly wonderful story, full of Regency silliness, comical characters and handsome and beautiful heroes and heroines. It is pure fun and reminds me of Marion Chesney's sisters series.

Worst book ever! Encourages Rape Culture.

This book loves rape and hates women. A woman goes walking alone, gets attacked by a rapist, and the hero says she brought it on herself, as if being a woman were an invitation to rape. Her attacker is overcome with passion for her, and can't control himself. If he loves her, he should have her.

Heroine suddenly overcomes lifelong fear of men simply because her young friend tells her that she's too sheltered and treating women like objects is normal. She is unphased by being abducted, suddenly falls in love with the man she hates, who has been lying to her and insulting her the whole time. She loves him because he saved her (because he was too cowardly to tell her the truth and too controlling to let her make her own decisions) and assures her that there are good men in the world, who respect women and would never treat women as objects. He then treats her like an object, by pinning her down and threatening to keep her there until she agrees to marry him. He INFORMS her that she will be coming with him to the wars, no matter how dangerous it is, because he wants her in his bed to do whatever he wants with. Having saved her from one dude who only wanted her body, he goes ahead and strips her and climbs on top. Very respectful. He can't help it because his passions are too great and that's what she gets for being beautiful and having a nice figure. His passion actually angers him and drives him to treat her badly. WTF?

Nobody levels with anyone else. Main characters are unlikable, boring, carry on their stupid charades way too long, not funny. Then, it just ends.

Had a few good moments

I read this free on KU. There's no doubt about this being the weakest series that I've read by this author. The stories do stand alone and it's not necessary to have read any of the other books. Here the h is very beautiful but she was scarred when she witnessed a bit of an orgy by accident when she was younger. She's terrified of the interactions between men and women so during her first season she put on an ice princess facade and any of her suitors. When it happened during her second season, her parents decided to arrange a marriage for her with the son of an Earl. The H, who is the said son, heard about the beautiful Isabella and decides to put on a fop persona whenever they come in to contact. In the background there is a villain, who was one of the h's rejected suitors and he is out for revenge.