Something About Emmaline

by Elizabeth Boyle

Other authorsSusan Duerden (Reader)

Digital audiobook, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Tantor Audio (2020), Edition: Unabridged Audiobook, Downloadable WMA/MP3 Audiofile, 10 hrs 26 mins

Description

Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, is a gentleman to be envied. He lives a rakish life of well-celebrated ease and contentment and has one person to thank for his perfectly ordered existence-his dearest wife, Emmaline. She never complains about his mistresses or his penchant for late nights out. His friends are envious, but they don't know the truth-Emmaline doesn't exist. But when he starts receiving bills from London for clothes, shoes, hats, and a staggering amount of other female accoutrements, he realizes something is decidedly amiss. Posing as Emmaline isn't a stretch for the newly arrived Lady Sedgwick, she's been conning gentry for years. But as the popular baron's wife, she now has the one thing that has eluded her-entree into London's inner circles. Against Alexander's better judgment, Emmaline is impossibly fixed in his life. And suddenly Emmaline is challenging him to be the husband she deserves.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ktleyed

Emmaline is simply adorable. Alex, Baron Sedgwick is nonplussed when the imaginary bride he made up to get all the matchmaking mamas and his grandmother off his back, becomes a reality! Emmaline turns up in his London townhouse, posing as his countess and against all common sense, he goes along

with it and becomes "besotted" with her! She is a great character and I loved this book! It was a pleasure to see how the two of them work things out and fall in love. Many mad-cap moments as Emmaline charms her way into Society, and Alex, against all good judgment and common sense - falls in love with his wife! A charming romance, light, fluffy and fun - as long as you suspend disbelief!

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LibraryThing member bkluvr4evr

This is the first novel of Elizabeth Boyle's that I have read and OMG was it good. I have the rest of The Bachelor Chronicals and can't wait to read them as well. Something About Emmaline was fantastic from the first page to the last. It was witty and entertaining all the way through. Love her

style of story telling. Highly recommend

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LibraryThing member librarydanielle

silly and fun. slow in several spots at the beginning.

LibraryThing member jarvenpa

Okay, when you read a book like this...romantic, fluffy Regency stuff...you aren't looking for great character development or even a plot that makes sense and is believable. Cause, why would you? You want fluff! Seeking something other than pleasure from such a book is like hoping that ice cream

sundaes with extra whipped cream are going to help you lose weight.

So..yes, I deeply enjoyed this. The main characters are fully diverting and not sappy in the least. The sex scenes are erotic (he has a hardness and she has an apex)(I am always, always diverted by how an author manages the physiological). The plot is cleverly laid in place early on. The end really should not have surprised anyone any more than "happily ever after" surprises you at the end of a fairy tale.

I really liked this, and will look for more Elizabeth Boyle when my intellectual sweet tooth is raging.

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LibraryThing member mullgirl

I generally like Boyle's novels. They are a super fast and entertaining read--so perfect if I want something to just entertain me and be done (it happens). This one though. Was a little too tortured in terms of plot to really make it. It's a fun idea that a bachelor would invent a wife, and an even

more entertaining idea for some woman to pretend to be her without telling him. But we took a couple of wrong turns at fairly ridiculous plotlines (shooting,gambling at the bar with the card shark and so forth). Their magically falling in love in days. It was too much... even for a fan of Boyle.

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