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The Substitute Bride

Dorothy Mack Regency Romances Series

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The Substitute Bride

By: Dorothy Mack
Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
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Regency London

Having spent a childhood summer with Viscount Giles Weston, Angelica Wayne has never forgotten his kindness. But when he employs her as his daughter's governess, she finds him cold and formidable.

A widower, Giles is engaged to the beautiful but indifferent Lady Barbara Darlington. Darkly cynical, he avoids emotional commitment and wishes to be married in name only.

Despite Giles's attitude, Angelica comes to enjoy his company, and her feelings for him start to rekindle.

When Barbara calls off the engagement, Giles asks Angelica to take her place as his bride.

And Angelica must decide whether she can marry a man seemingly incapable of returning her affection . . .

What is the reason for Giles's haughtiness? Can Angelica thaw his frosty exterior? Or are both condemned to a life without love?

©1977 Dorothy Mack (P)2022 Tantor Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Royal Romance Royalty

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This is a well crafted love story, rather let down by some mis-pronounciation of many words…. Sometimes hilariously!

Good story - unfortunate pronounciations!

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Narrator had an odd inflection and pronunciation. Some characters sounded like Minnie Mouse on helium. Positively the narrator kept it well paced. I took other reviewers tip to slightly speed up the performance which made it slightly better. This is
my favourite DM novel but always feel that the author ends all her novels rather abruptly as though she isn't sure how to end it.

Love the story but narrator?

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Same result as always, but a more novel story. Never over enamoured with narrated type of voice, but not grating just a personal preference.

Enjoyed it.

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It became really tedious halfway through & it never relented on the angst again until the very end.

I kept hoping it would improve, but sadly it never did! Everything became a source of even more angst...

The author has a fetish for being blonde & kinda acted as though being blonde is a virtue, so much so that she even implied that a brunette couldn't like the decor of the room as it didn't go with her hair colour... what?!? 🤔

Such was the author's focus on being blonde that she had him become engaged with a woman with the exact same characteristics as his late wife, but it's ok, because she was a brunette.

Surely any intelligent person would learn from the past & learn to see the red flags & avoid such self-absorbed people NOT the hair colour 🤦‍♀️

The heroine became extremely irrational... I'm still confused about the bath incident & her fury at the start... also her flirting with every man in breeches & then acting surprised that he might think she was cheating on him... make it make sense!

The author then decided to turn the hero into a villain & rather than have him apologise, she has him ignore his (believed) actions & act as though nothing happened!

All in all, a really silly book!

angst fest 🥴

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I've been checking on and off with the hope of a Dorothy Mack audiobook for a while now, so pleased one has been released and I hope for many more. For me her books have always been the next best thing to Georgette Heyer.

This isn't my favourite of DM's book but I still feel it deserves 5 stars. I find the characters well fleshed out and the era detail convincing. A deeply satisfying Romance.

The narration seemed a little odd initially and I wasn't sure I'd make it through the first chapter! However I did get used to it and it didn't negatively impact my enjoyment of the book. I've come to accept that mispronounciation is almost inevitable with a Regency Romance. In this case there were only a few errors, enough to be annoying though.

Finally a Dorothy Mack Audiobook

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