

Too Wilde to Wed
Author: Eloisa James
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/29/2018
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Eloisa James
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/29/2018
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
To say, it runs in the family, is an understatement when referring to the writing career of author, Mary Bly. Her credentials are impeccable with degrees from various prestigious schools, such as Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. She is a tenured professor on William Shakespeare, and has published with the Oxford University Press.
While attending the University of Virginia on a humanities fellowship, Bly began writing romance novels. Granted, the novels are not modern day romance, but set in England's Regency Period, where her incomparable knowledge of William Shakespeare serves as an added bonus in her works. She began this genre of writing to expedite paying off her student loans. Her first attempt was very well received.......The Pleasure Trilogy......and sold many copies in hardback, and her advance payment from the book paid off that student loan debt. After that, she decided to publish under the pseudonym of Eloisa James and to only publish in paperback format. It was more of a mass-market plan. Both worked in her favor.
Most of Bly's novels are not typical in character for the romance genre. Most have a very beautiful female character and a romantic interest in a handsome male character. Bly deviates from the norm by featuring a plump female character, or a hero who annulled a marriage because of impotence. Women friends or sisters play important roles in a Bly novel, because she places importance on those relationships in her own life. Most of her novels are in trilogy form or groups of four. That format gives her more story line time to develop interesting characters.
It was several years before Bly uncovered her secret second career to her intellectually snooty colleagues. She even disguised her appearance when she addressed each group, readers of her novels, and colleagues. When she realized how popular her novels were with her readers, she revealed her secret by giving each faculty colleague a copy of her latest novel. It was well received by all. And for the fact that the talent runs in the family, Mary Bly's (Eloisa James) Father, Mother, and Uncle were writers. Her romance novels are very popular all around the world.
4 stars! Review at Of Pens and Pages. It made it clear that the woman who jilted him was still the woman of his heart.” Too Wilde to Wed was my first Eloisa James read and definitely not the last. I knew I’d love the story the moment I saw the blurb. A second chance romance between one of the mo......more
From the start of this audiobook, I was swooning over this romance. It's a second chance romance because Diana and North were engaged before it was broken off, North went into the military, and Diana became the governess for North's family. Two years later, North is back. It was fun how it was a rom......more
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books. I just loved Diana and North! I have been looking forward to reading their story since finishing the first book in the series, Wilde in Love. This book would work perfectly well as a stand alone but the ending of the first book really ha......more
Audio: 5 STARS! Story: 4 STARS! Blinding joy swirled through Diana, mixing with desire and trust and love. A really satisfying read, filled with quite a few swoon-worthy moments! While this installment of the Wildes wasn't a borderline farce like the first one, I still really enjoyed it. J......more
A completely absurd tale of a a woman who prefers working as a governess instead of marrying a duke, who is kind, handsome, rich and loves her very much. He asked her repeatedly to marry him and she refused just because he is a duke. In 18th century. You cannot be seriuos man!!! I could not feel any......more