The Season – Sarah MacLean Free Audiobook

Written by Sarah MacLean
Read by Gabrielle Baker
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: August 24, 2018
Duration: 09:04:39

A murder mystery, high tea, dances, and boys… Regency London has never been so deliciously adventuresome, or romantic!

In Regency London, Alexandra is about to embark on her first season of balls and dinners, and while nothing “would steer her mother from the course of marrying off her only daughter,” 17-year-old Alex is put off by men’s seeming lack of interest in women with “any amount” of intelligence (“Evidently, it scares eligible gentlemen off”). Her opinions about romance change when she develops feelings for her brothers’ friend Gavin, who is mourning the sudden death of his father (making Gavin the new earl of Blackmoor).

Mac-Lean’s debut (2009) is well paced, and as readers fill up on descriptions of dresses and society’s rules, another plot line develops: Alex overhears a conversation proving that Gavin’s father was murdered, and she puts her relationship, reputation and life in danger to help him. Readers will appreciate the clique lit/historical romance hybrid: headstrong Alex rolls her eyes and gossips with friends, but still knows the steps to the quadrille.

Clever conversation in the spirit of Jane Austen makes this quite a page turner.

Note – Remember, this was her first book so don’t expect the same polished quality as her most recent ones.