When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James
When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James
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When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Author: Eloisa James

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/11/2011


Synopsis

“Eloisa James’s writing is absolutely exquisite.”
—New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros “Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a new novel by Eloisa James.”—New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn A wonderful spin on a much-beloved fairy tale, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James’s When Beauty Tamed the Beast is heart-soaring and fun historical romance at its finest. Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she's betrothed to a Beast.Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. And rumor also has it that a wound has left the earl immune to the charms of any woman. Linnet is not just any woman.She is more than merely lovely: her wit and charm brought a prince to his knees. She estimates the earl will fall madly in love—in just two weeks.Yet Linnet has no idea of the danger posed to her own heart by a man who may never love her in return.If she decides to be very wicked indeed . . . what price will she pay for taming his wild heart?

About Eloisa James

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on March 28, 2022

This was fun! <--for me. It was apparently not as fun for Alex as I popped his trashy romance novel cherry. If you've never read a bodice ripper with a man who has never read a bodice ripper, you're missing out on one hell of guilty pleasure. Here are my Top 10 favorite messages he sent to me during o......more

Goodreads review by Jessica's on January 30, 2018

When Beauty Tamed the Beast was an okay read for me. I enjoyed the audio version but I didn't really care much for the hero or heroine. There was just something about both of them that was off putting to me. I didn't connect to them and in turn didn't connect to their love story. It wasn't a bad rea......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on August 02, 2018

Beauty and the Beast if the Beast was House M.D., and Beauty was hilariously snarky. I totally loved this! Even better than this retelling. It was a close race. "Beauty" is Linnet. She gets ruined by a prince because she wears an unfortunate dress that makes her look preggers. It doesn't matter if it'......more

*4.5 stars* Tortured male MC based off of Dr. House, snarky banter, and a slow-burn love story? I adored When Beauty Tamed the Beast, which was just what the doctor (ha!) ordered right now. It was my first read by the talented Eloisa James, and I think I started off with the right one. I loved the lo......more

Goodreads review by Mariah Roze on March 24, 2017

My goal was to read as many Beauty and Beast retellings as possible before I went to see the new movie. However, with all the book club reads and personal reads I was able to only read two. I read Beauty by Robin McKinley and this book. I looked up available Beauty and the Beast stories at the my li......more