Engaging if predictable story

Girl gets boy and boy gets girl in this engaging if predictable tale. I wanted to shake the main female lead on several occasions and tell her to stop putting her sister’s feelings above everything else.
I was somewhat put of by the narrator who has a strange habit of dragging down the ends of her sentences, making them sound full of ennui. Some of her pronunciations were odd as well eg cravat as cravaaaart. But hey ho, I persevered and was happy enough when all came right in the end.

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What a sweet & heart wrenching story

I think it would be unfair to pin my complete enjoyment of this book to Justine Eyre’s delivery.... something in the tone of her voice always manages to charge so much emotion into her characters when it really matters (especially when male voices crack, it always sounds very real)... this performance really rivals some of her best stuff (Julie Anne Long’s Pennyroyal Green... Notorious Countess comes to mind). But this story was incredibly well written and structured. As the end of the house party comes near I found my anxiety mounting and my desperation for Amelia and Peter making me cry. It was excellently paced! I would love to see more HR from Walker. She seems to have a knack for the rigors if polite society, creating tension, and writing clean. Highly recommend!!

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I really can not recommend

I could not give the book back, because I listened to the whole thing, but I am at a loss to explain why.
I thought to return it, when it started cringeworthy.
But somehow I listened to the whole thing shaking my head most of the time. Probably I was in a masochistic mood.
When I nearly finished I was ready to give it 2 stars because I persisted but than the ending left me crying, what??? And I downgraded to 1. A happy ever after build on the misery of another character was really too much, especially after the whole book revolved about keeping this character and another character happy.
I have rarely listened to a book where I was aware of every single plot device, something was mentioned and 5 minutes later what could be expected happened.
And the grating inner monologue of the heroine. Honestly it was too much.
I have listened to a lot of similar books and the author does not even adhere to the lowest common denominator of what all authors seem to agree on (that ladies are not allowed to accept presents from gentlemen). And a mud fight, give me a break.

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