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Duchess by Deception
- Gilded, Book 1
- Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase, Shane East
- Series: Gilded [Force], Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Betty
- 30-01-19
Great historical novel
Marie does it again. This book was everything we expect from a Marie Force book, great plot, amazing characters and steamy romance. This is my first historical romance and I loved it. Looking forward to the series.
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- TR
- 01-02-19
Marie Force Rocks Her 1st Historical Romance
I love the Marie force Gansett Island series so when I heard she wrote her first Historical Romance, I dedicated to give it a try. To be honest I've been wanting to try out the genre for a while now.
The story itself was utterly amazing. I loved it beyond words. I can't speak highly enough of it. Such a great love story for so many reasons.
The only thing I have negative to say is about the voice actors. There was a male and a female. And while the male did okay, the female could only do the one voice, so it was very hard to figure out if she was speaking as the male or the female at the time. I mean it was really bad. She didn't even try to distinguish between different voices for different characters. They had a male and a female voice actor - so why not have the male read the male parts and the female read the female parts? Would have worked out WAY WAY WAY better.
7 people found this helpful
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- Patricia Villali Koett
- 21-02-19
I made myself finish... :-(
I decided to try this audio because it had been a while since I had listened to a historical romance and since I love Shane East I felt this would be a sure thing. Unfortunately for me this story dragged and I was very turned off by the slow pace of the action and how the leading female became whiny when facing difficulty. The narration was basically the only reason I kept at it, but the overall "Insta-Love" between them and the whole "keeping his name a secret" was just not motivating to me.
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- zenny
- 06-07-19
Weak Story Line
Typical damsel in distress tale but so weak. Author tries to force romance and sex with a some story line with so many stereotypical storey arcs but timeframe, corny dialogue, and unrealistic events just make it all fall apart. So hard to follow and so many times I wanted quit listening. I still don't know why I continued.. probably will stop soon.
The readers made do with what they could. Great performance but they can't carry the story on their own.
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- Mel
- 14-02-19
SURPRISED
I love all Marie’s books. This one is the best. I can’t wait for September!
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- CynthiaL cdlam7
- 20-09-21
Loved it
Definitely enjoyed this. And as I love historical romance and love Shane East narrating it was double the pleasure. Marie Force creates interesting and captivating characters. She thoroughly entertained me with this first book in this series. And the narration is flawless. Looking forward to the next in this series.
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- MaeKayla
- 17-01-20
Lovely
Loved this book! Marie did it again with a new series! Excited for the rest of the series!
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- Judy
- 13-09-19
loved it!
it took a couple chapters to get into the book & figure out the characters, but then it was wonderful!
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- vash
- 04-09-19
EXCELLENT BOOK
Again Marie Force has delivered a masterpiece. Although I was not sure if I would like a story set in “old times” of English nobles, Marie changed my mind!
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- S. Holstein
- 03-03-19
Excellent!
I thoroughly enjoyed your first historical romance book! The Duke was my favorite character. I look forward to the next ones to come and I am beginning to think there is nothing you can't write!!