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Flame and Ember

Regency Love, Book 1

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Flame and Ember

By: M.A. Nichols
Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
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A most inconvenient marriage of convenience.

Simon Kingsley is in desperate need of a wife. After years of searching, he finally found love. Unfortunately, she wed another, and now, it is time to settle for someone with whom he can share his life. A friend, a companion, a helpmate. Love is no longer an option for a man whose heart is irrevocably broken.

Mina Ashbrook longs for a loving marriage but accepts that at the age of 30, she is unlikely to find it. Facing a lifetime of being the spinster sister living on her brother’s charity, Mina considers something she never thought she would - a marriage of convenience. She knows Simon is not marrying her for love but hopes it will blossom in his heart if only she can convince him that love comes in many forms.

Will Mina find a way to heal Simon’s heart? Or will the shadows of the past keep them from finding happiness together?

Set in Regency-era England, Flame and Ember is a sweet romance about overcoming the pains of the past and learning to love.

Audiobook one in the Regency Love series. Buy your copy today!

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Firstly: Narration: Madeleine Brolly does an excellent job, managing shifts between individual characters deftly. Regional accents add interest to some secondary characters, making one wonder if, or even hope, they will turn up in later books, and she switches deftly from one gender to another. I was going to say she doesn’t miss a beat, but then remembered a few technical glitches (probably created during editing), wherein single words or phrases are abruptly repeated.

Secondly: the story… The plot closely resembles that of A Civil Contract - one of Georgette Heyer’s less appealing novels, but the author has resurrected, and morphed it very satisfactorily. The period setting kept slipping out of my mind, as there were sparse mentions/descriptions of events, fashions and preoccupations common to the early nineteenth century. The language and content of characters’ conversation led my mind to transposing the setting into the Victorian period , and I had to wrestle it back consciously, from time to time.
Finally (Picky, picky, picky!): The story is set in England, where the lovely word ‘autumn’ is always used to name the season between summer and winter. ‘Fall’ is American terminology, as is the phrase of ‘Writing’ someone - In England, it is good language to speak of ‘writing to someone’. Again, these are likely to be faults within the editing process. A novel casts a much more powerful spell when it attends to these small details.

Enjoyable reading - first book of Regency series

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Loved this story. Simon did frustrate me and Meena forgave far too easily. I also don't think his family and Mrs Baxter got a good face-slap.

I wish there was an epilogue to round off the story

Enjoyable story

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Finally romance hero’s who are rational, human, accessible and the character arc satisfying for both hero and heroine - him to get a clue and her to refuse finally to be a doormat. I also liked how the author set up how it must have felt to be under the care of father, brother, husband with no freedom to make your own choices for a female in regency England. My only gripe is the necessity of having such inaccessible villains - apart from being selfish and spiteful it was hard to understand what their motivations or logic were. Why can’t the ones who act as the catalysts be as nuanced or human as well. It’s like we can’t be trusted to see how angelic the heroine is unless the villains aren’t so depraved in contrast. The narrator has a beautiful timbre and she put me to sleep beautifully. I had to keep rewinding!

Lovely

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This novel was fantastic! It is well written and had me hooked from the get go! The narrator also does an amazing job at bringing the characters to life and is enjoyable to listen to.
I'm really looking forward to listening to more books by M.A Nichols!

Worth the listen

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