A Brothers Price, Wen Spencer
A Brothers Price, Wen Spencer
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A Brother's Price

Author: Wen Spencer

Narrator: Travis Baldree

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/29/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Epic


Synopsis

In a world where male children are rare, a man is a valuable commodity—to be sold to the highest bidder . . .

It isn't easy being the oldest boy in a house run by women—especially for Jerin Whistler. The grand-matriarchs of his clan are descended from soldiers, spies, and thieves. That's partly what's kept their family alive in the wilderness. But it also means Jerin's doomed to marry the girls next door—a fate he's convinced is worse than death. But Jerin gets in even worse trouble when, in the process of a daring rescue, he falls in love with a royal princess who's as high above his station as it's possible to be.

Ren knows that Jerin is too far below her class to be an appropriate match for her and her royal sisters. But then she hears rumors of a long-held Whistler family secret—one that might provide a way for them to finally be together. Unfortunately, she still has four sisters to convince. And that's before Jerin even comes to the capital—where simmering political tensions will threaten not just their love, but all their lives . . .

About Wen Spencer

Wen Spencer is a John W. Campbell Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy. Several of her novels, including Alien Taste, Tinker, and A Brother's Price, have been translated and sold internationally in Europe, Japan, and Russia. After living in Pittsburgh and Boston, Spencer now resides in Hilo, Hawaii.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois on October 08, 2013

This stand-alone book had been tugging at my attention for years; I finally got around to loading it up on my Kindle in advance of an out-of-town trip. The plot and set-up have been described adequately in other reviews, but briefly, a young man born into a world where the ratio of men to women is ab......more

Goodreads review by Gail on February 10, 2017

I really enjoyed this book. Spencer had a much more breezy voice than I expected from someone so critically acclaimed. It was easier jump into and read A Brother's Price than I thought it would be. The story was fun. I liked the action scenes. The world-building was spot on. Perhaps the setting wasn......more

Goodreads review by Ian on January 02, 2013

A virtuous, virginal protagonist -- pure and chaste, but plucky. From a decent and honorable family. But when they rescue a soldier attacked on their land, it turns out the soldier is royal! And the rogueish heir to the throne seduces the poor virginal protagonist! But they fall in love! Can the hei......more

Goodreads review by N.K. on December 21, 2009

Reread this recently. I'd enjoyed it before, but on this reread I realized what a nifty little satire of gender roles and gendered literature -- in this case, Regency romances -- it is. It goes a bit deeper than role reversal because of the worldbuilding premise: there's a legitimate reason that wom......more

Goodreads review by Brownbetty on February 16, 2010

Kind of like if The Handmaid's Tale were a romantic comedy. asj;dfaskdjf;jjkllkjlklll Sorry, I had to whack myself in the face with the keyboard several times to reset my noggin after typing that. Right, so, it's basically "what if The Patriarchy(tm) was The Matriarchy!?" which veers wildly between "Se......more