The Paid Companion
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Narrateur(s):
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Bianca Amato
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Auteur(s):
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Amanda Quick
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The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancée will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. The simplest solution is to hire a paid companion. Finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected. But when he encounters Miss Elenora Lodge, the fire in her golden eyes sways him to make a generous offer. Her sorry financial circumstances - and dreams of a life of independence - convince her to accept. But St. Merryn appears to be hiding a secret or two, and things seem oddly amiss in his gloomy London home. Elenora soon discovers that this lark will be a far more dangerous adventure than she'd been led to believe. And the Earl of St. Merryn will find that the meek and mild companion he'd initially envisioned has become a partner in his quest to catch a killer - and an outspoken belle of the ball who stirs a bothersome passion in his practical heart.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Ann Blake
- 2023-03-22
Entertaining
As alway I find Amanda Quick’s romantic stories, to be entertaining and light read. Perhaps a little silly. But I like the dialogue, and I like that in this case, the heroine was definitely flawed.
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- Rita Matte
- 2023-02-13
Interesting story
The performance was excellent and I enjoyed the love story and the ending was great
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- Verified buyer
- 2023-05-19
good read :)
I thought it was well written, cute story with a fiesty heroine, with some power! It was witty and will read more for relaxation... well done, I could have done without the very graphic sex scenes but they were minimal and fairly comical so tolerable.
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- T-in-a-dash
- 2025-04-20
So many errors too little time
I really wish American authors would stop writing British historical or period dramas without doing research about proper etiquette and what society actually looked like in those times.
It’s one thing to put a little spin on the time, it’s another thing to wipe it out completely.
Eleanor‘s brashness reminds me of someone of entitlement in American society not someone whose status has greatly diminished in British society during those times. Everyone knew everyone, She would have been in the same social circles as the Earl, therefore, everyone in society would have known not only of her, but of her status.
An engagement was a binding contract. A runaway bride risked not only damaging her reputation, but that of her family. She risked being a social pariah and having her family disown her.
With this in mind, the ball where the ex approached, the new fiancé for help wouldn’t have taken place because without an invitation and being in good standing in society, she wouldn’t have been able to come anywhere close to that estate. Let alone get into the ball to accost the new fiancé at a ball after both her family and her new husband‘s family have disowned them.
Intimacy. Etiquette and propriety would have dictated that, even though they were engaged, a certain level of decorum was needed, especially in public, so the deep passionate kiss in public, in the garden of a party would have been outrageous and detrimental to Eleanor’s reputation.
I can go on, but why waste my breath with the number of errors within this book. To me, it seems the author wrote of American society at the time and simply changed the location to Britain without making the adequate changes based on location.
I started skipping at chapter 11 and closed the book at chapter 20 when Eleanor tried to illicit the Earl’s help for his ex fiancé and her new husband. If it was a case where the engagement was legitimately broken and now they were in dire straits, needing help, I would understand this plea, but for the author to make the Earl the bad guy simply because his demeanour comes across as cold and he didn’t chase after the fiancé when she ran away with her new lover was fantastical and laughable.
I also called it quits because after 20 chapters of no progress with regards to the mystery you start to see that the mystery will stay mostly in the background while this farce of a romance stays in the forefront. I think the author could’ve done away with the mystery altogether, especially with a book titled the paid companion and built the entire story around these two coming together in an unusual manner based on the society they lived in, but still being able to fall in love with each other. That, in my opinion, would have made this story so much better as long as the author corrected all the historical errors.
The narration was the best thing about this book, but even that can’t make it good.
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