
The Belle of Belgrave Square
Belles of London, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Ell Potter
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Sebastian Brown
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Written by:
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Mimi Matthews
About this listen
“Shiveringly Gothic.”—New York Times Book Review
A PopSugar and BookBub Best Romance of 2022!
A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger.
Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. What he requires now is a rich wife to ornament his isolated ruin, and he has his sights set on the enchanting Julia Wychwood.
For Julia, an incurable romantic cursed with a crippling social anxiety, navigating a London ballroom is absolute torture. The only time Julia feels any degree of confidence is when she’s on her horse. Unfortunately, a young lady can’t spend the whole of her life in the saddle, so Julia makes an impetuous decision to take her future by the reins—she proposes to Captain Blunt.
In exchange for her dowry and her hand, Jasper must promise to grant her freedom to do as she pleases. To ride—and to read—as much as she likes without masculine interference. He readily agrees to her conditions, with one provision of his own: Julia is forbidden from going into the tower rooms of his estate and snooping around his affairs. But the more she learns of the beastly former hero, the more intrigued she becomes…
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What the critics say
“Mimi Matthews never disappoints, with richly drawn characters and couples whose individual shortcomings become strengths, when paired together. In this Beauty and the Beast retelling, we get to root for two underdogs who get to rewrite their own stories.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here
“Shiveringly Gothic…Watching Julia blossom away from prying eyes is almost as satisfying as seeing Jasper Blunt pine for her from nearly the first page…For best effect, save this one for a windy night when trees scrape against the windowpanes.”—New York Times Book Review
"The Belle of Belgrave Square is such tremendous good fun: a heroine with a big horse, an even bigger novel-reading habit, and a hidden anxiety; a hero with a crumbling estate, a trio of wary children, and a literary secret—what's not to love? Mimi Matthews paints Victorian England with vivid humor, and her Belles of London is set to go on for at least a few more much-anticipated installments. Julian Fellowes fans will rejoice!"—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye
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- Natalie Dubeau
- 2023-02-01
Loved it
This book was so sweet. I thought it was a great follow up to the Siren of Sussex. The "plot twist" (if it was supposed to be that) was pretty obvious, but it didn't take away from all of the character development and relationship building. I LOVED seeing Julia and Jasper grow together. I think this series is going to become a comfort read that I keep coming back to. Loved it.
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- Michelle Helliwell
- 2022-12-03
Fabulous, meaty, romantic story
I cannot get enough of this series. The performances were great, especially given I generally find two narrator’s disruptive. The story is utterly engrossing - Julia and Jasper’s journey was just as compelling as Evie and Ahmad’s.
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- Ryan
- 2022-11-18
Disappointing
The story was well written but I was very disappointed with the constant uses of the Lord’s name in vain as well as other swearing and an excess detail of sex intimacy.
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- Amanda Livingstone
- 2022-11-30
I loved it except …
The male narrator is fine for Jasper’s part but he makes all the other male voices nasal and whiny. At first, I thought he was giving whiny voices to the villains but then I realized that even main characters from previous novels also had whiny voices and it was really annoying.
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