To Love a Lord

By: Christi Caldwell

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

All she wants is security:

The last place finishing school instructor Mrs. Jane Munroe belongs is in polite Society. Vowing to never wed, she's been scuttled around from post to post. Now she finds herself in the Marquess of Waverly's household. She's never met a nobleman she liked, and when she meets the pompous, arrogant marquess, she remembers why. But soon, she discovers Gabriel is unlike any gentleman she's ever known.

All he wants is a companion for his sister:

What Gabriel finds himself with instead is a fiery spirited, bespectacled woman who entices him at every corner and challenges his age-old vow to never trust his heart to a woman. But...there is something suspicious about his sister's companion. And he is determined to find out just what it is.

All they need is each other: As Gabriel and Jane confront the truth of their feelings, the lies and secrets between them begin to unravel. And Jane is left to decide whether or not it is ever truly safe to love a lord.

©2015 Christi Caldwell (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Wash, rinse, repeat ad nauseum

This book would have been a hour/chapter shorter if we'd only been told the heroine lied her way into the position 100 times over the course if the entire book instead of that many times in the first 5 chapters. If you made a drinking game of every time her angst about lying to get the position was mentioned you'd die of alcohol poisoning before you made it half way through the book.

And heroine's "mouth went dry" so many times it's a miracle she could speak at all for the dust on her tongue. Descriptive phrases are necessary and appreciated, but their overuse is distracting and annoying. It takes you out of the story line and causes the character(s) to no longer elicit the feeling the author is trying to portray. Instead of feeling sympathy and empathy for the character(s) you just feel apathy and boredom. You find yourself thinking, "OMG how many times do you think you have to tell me this. I got it the first 20 times you told me".

In doing this an author comes across a lazy and just phoning it in. It's like they can't be bothered to put much thought into expanding their plot line or character development. It appears like they just keep cutting pasting the same lines over and over so there is no true insight or growth to the characters.

Great Book

This is the fifth book in the series. I have enjoyed them all. This one is possibly my favorite. I loved that both characters were strong, loyal, and protective. There was also some great humor throughout.

love this series

I love this series. the author knows how to write a love story! on to the next!

Christi Caldwell books could always be shorter

I love the overall stories in this series and Tim Campbell is a great narrator. Not long into the stories the repeating and agonizing and self-flagellation begins and it is over and over again. I just want to say, OK, WE GET IT! But now I’m this far into the series, do I stop? Or do I continue on?

Got to Love this family!

I Love the way Christi uses problems that span over time and are just as hard to overcome today as they we're yesterday.

Just OK

I finished it, but the story was predictable, replete with why I'm unworthy of love.

Something missing

The characters were fairly well developed and kinda entertaining, but the story lacked substance. There was nothing to create and hold the interest of the listener. It was hard to feel empathy...to feel anything..for the characters. Not a repeat listen for me.