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  • The Reluctant Countess

  • A Would-Be Wallflowers Novel
  • Written by: Eloisa James
  • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Reluctant Countess

Written by: Eloisa James
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Would-Be Wallflowers series with an enemies-to-lovers romance between a proper earl and an entirely improper lady—whom he can’t stop thinking about.

Giles Renwick, Earl of Lilford, has never made a fool of himself over a woman—until he meets Lady Yasmin Régnier. Yasmin is ineligible for his attentions in every way: not as a wife, certainly not as a mistress (she is a lady!), nor even as a friend, since they vehemently dislike each other. Her gowns are too low, and her skirts are dampened to cling to admittedly lovely thighs. She loves to gossip—and giggle.

She isn’t dignified, or polite, or even truly British, given that her father’s French ancestry clearly predominated. Not to mention the fact that her mother had been one of Napoleon’s mistresses, a fact she makes no effort to hide.

So what—in heaven’s name—possesses him to propose?

And what will he do if she says yes?

©2022 Eloisa James (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

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Interesting story but

Totally not enough of a wrap up on what happens to Lydia. You just hate her but nothing wrapped up in the end rather it’s just left hanging open and unexplained and not in a good cliff hanger way either.
Also the first epilogue didn’t really mean anything as it’s not explained throughly enough. I didn’t like the narrator as she reads with a repeating rhythm which is quite distracting.
The story took a while to get into and I usually love the steamy bits but their first encounter was so awkward and disappointing that it left the rest of their love scenes tainted and I couldn’t really enjoy any of them.

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