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    Only Enchanting
    Only Enchanting
    Only Enchanting
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    Only Enchanting

    Written by Mary Balogh

    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor

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    About this audiobook

    In the fourth novel of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, finds salvation in the love of a most unsuspecting woman …

    Flavian was devastated by his fiancée’s desertion after his return home from the Napoleonic Wars. Now the woman who broke his heart is back—and everyone is eager to revive their engagement. Except Flavian, who, in a panic, runs straight into the arms of a most sensible yet enchanting young woman.

    Agnes Keeping has never been in love—and never wishes to be. But then she meets the charismatic Flavian, and suddenly Agnes falls so foolishly and so deeply that she agrees to his impetuous proposal of marriage.

    When Agnes discovers that the proposal is only to avenge his former love, she’s determined to flee. But Flavian has no intention of letting his new bride go, especially now that he too has fallen so passionately and so unexpectedly in love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781490635439
    Only Enchanting
    Author

    Mary Balogh

    New York Times bestselling, multi-award-winning author Mary Balogh grew up in Wales, land of sea and mountains, song and legend. She brought music and a vivid imagination with her when she came to Canada to teach. There she began a second career as a writer of books that always end happily and always celebrate the power of love.

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    • 3/5
      good story. way too long
    • 2/5
      I liked this story, but I felt like fast forwarding it. It dragged too much.

      After chapter 11 I started skipping chapters and I feel I should congratulate myself for enduring to read as much as I have of it.

      If you like a slow story, this is the one for you.
    • 5/5
      This was the final "Survivor's Club" book for me. I'm not sure how I missed this one. But I loved them all. This book was the story of Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby and Agness Keeping. Flavian was shot in the head during the war and has some very bad mental issues because of it. He has pretty much healed but is left with memory loss and a bad speech stammer. Somehow he feels "safe" with Agness and convinces her to marry him. Now the good part begins...the actual love story. I thoroughly enjoyed their story and this book.
    • 4/5
      I'm glad the Survivor's club continues. This one is Flavian and Agnes.
    • 3/5
      This couple wasn't awful, I just didn't care that much for them. The story was just fine, for me.
    • 5/5
      This was lovely with probably a bit more angst, but I appreciate the time Balogh takes to get them to know each other with more of the unknown to come. Flavian and Agnes both had demons, but I loved to see them both there for each other and making it work; so good.
    • 4/5
      I took a break from reading Ms. balogh's books in favor of contemporary, as a change of pace. What a delight to rediscover her Survivor's club after my historical hiatus. Her perfectly tortured hero is counterbalanced by a secretly damaged herpne, who thinks quickly on her feet despite being afraid of herself. The antagonist was delightfully wicked. 4 stars instead if five more because Agnes rolled a little too well with the punches. I had no issue that she rolled with them, more that she threatened that she couldn't or wouldn't and then changed her mind. I admird her strength, but felt her story was a bit unreplved. All said, i enjoy Ms. balogh's writing enough that I still loved the book.
    • 5/5
      Mary Balogh continues her Survivor’s Club series with a fourth installment and in it another survivor, Flavian, gets his own happily ever after. And what a story it is. After I was done reading his story, I wondered which one I loved [notice I didn’t say “like” and that’s because you just don’t “like” this authors stories. You either LOVE them or the opposite of that. I’m one of millions of her fans that loves everything she writes] the most so far. Guess what? I couldn’t choose. Out of the four she wrote up to date, I just love them all because each is unique in itself despite the same tread that binds them all, the war that affected each in a different way. I am looking forward to three more stories in this series and can’t wait to find out the background of those characters.

      My heart broke into thousand pieces as I was reading about Flavian’s injuries after his return from the Peninsula. His rage at not being able to speak and understand people around him was heartbreaking. If George, the Duke of Stanbrook hadn’t intervened and whisked him off to his estate, I have no doubt that his family would have committed him to bedlam. It took three years of loving care and plenty of patience George and the other club members gladly offered in order for Flavian to come out of his nightmare.

      Agnes Keeping is a young widow who after her older husband’s death is now living with her sister Dora. When Agnes married at eighteen, she was accepting of and content with, her life. I don’t think she felt that she was missing much not being in society on a regular basis during her marriage, but she did regret not having children. Dora’s friendship with Sophia who married Viscount Darley [another survivor club member] gave her the opportunity to meet Flavian and the rest as they say, is history.

      The pace of this story is perfect and the slow progression of their acquaintance and subsequent love is enchanting. Both characters are loving, decent and endearing people.

      There are many moments in this book where I just smiled from ear to ear and then some where I had tears in my eyes. But then, Ms. Balogh does this to me in every book I’ve read so far!

      Highly recommending it to all my bookworms.

      Melanie for b2b

      Complimentary copy provided by the publisher
    • 4/5
      Another volume of the Survivor’s Club, this was the fourth of the series that I read. I enjoyed it as much as the others in terms of emotional content and the characters. However, there were some aspects that didn’t jib as well with me.I really liked the leads of Agnes and Flavian. Agnes’ n-nonsense, practical approach synchs well with how I approach things. I liked how that pragmatic outlook on life actually makes her more vulnerable to be swept away by the pull of high passion and first real love. Having not experienced those high-rolling emotions before makes them all the more potent, I think. In the end, though, Agnes comes out all the better for them.Flavian’s emotional response to life was a nice change of pace, too. He’s moved to tears more than once when faced with an emotionally charged encounter or situation. This is not the norm for a romantic hero, and I liked that difference. I like that his injury hasn’t made him your usual grim, brooding, mysterious male (though that’s not always a bad thing!). There is still some mystery and masks to him, but his passion for life and Agnes still comes through.The main relationship made the book. Agnes and Flavian fill each other out so well that it feels like they were just meant to be. Their pairing illustrates that the old adage of “opposites attract” holds some truth. Agnes’ solid, steady persona and Flavian’s barely contained passionate nature caused occasional sparks to fly with a strong, gelled cohesion in the end.The outside plotline of Flavian’s family situation and Agnes’ familial shame was enjoyable overall. I liked how Balogh wove in Flavian’s injures with these situations, giving it more weight later in the book. His lost memories became an important part of the story; not being able to immediately recall the past when it has so much baring on the present must have torn Flavian a part. However, I do wish that more emphasis or weight could have been given to Flavian’s injures throughout the whole book, not just towards the end. His stutter, his lazy eyebrow, and his absence of memories almost seemed as more of a gimmick than anything else for the first half of the book. After seeing how the injuries of Vincent and Ben played such a leading role in the emotional journeys of the characters in books two and three, I was a bit disappointed to see Flavian’s sidelined until way into the story.Overall, this is a very enjoyable installment to the Survivor’s Club series. Vibrant leads and a main relationship one can root for make for a strong romantic read. I liked the plot, though the diminishing of Flavian’s situation in the beginning was a disappointment. I’d still recommend this one to lovers of the series and author, though. The emotional pull is still there.
    • 4/5
      Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh is a 2014 Signet Publication. This the fourth book in the Survivor's Club series. Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, suffered a brain injury which cost him his fiance' who quite abruptly married one of his oldest friends. Now, several years later, it seems the lady is a widow, and Flavian feels some guilt about having kept his distance from the couple all this time. But, the thought comes to mind that it could be his chance to rekindle the romance with the lady who once deserted him. However, when Flavian meets Sophia's friend Agnes, he finds himself drawn to her. She is not like any lady he has ever spent time with. She is calm, sensible, and reliable. She makes him feel safe, and he wants her in his life. But, Agnes is not so sure that's a good idea for either of them. However, once he finally convinces her to marry him, she learns she is a pawn and that her husband is only using her. Is the marriage doomed or can Flavian convince his new wife that he loves her and only her?This is a tender love story that will touch your heart. Mary Balogh is a master at writing Regency period romance, and this book is a solid example of her skills. I liked the mature characters, and although poor Flavian still has trouble with his memory and doesn't always say things in the most eloquent of ways, he is simply divine and so very charming, in spite of himself. Agnes is a woman terrified of her own inner passions, and prefers an orderly, dependable, but predictable life. However, meeting Flavian ensures her of a life that will be none of those things. If Flavian can prove his love for Agnes, she will find her husband to be everything she needs and much, much more.The story is a little understated at times, with the passion between the couple hanging in the atmosphere and not necessarily acted upon like two hormonal teens, but it's there and it's palpable. The tone is light, the banter is witty and sharp, and utterly delightful. This couple was most assuredly destined to be together and although they remain pragmatic about effusive happy ever afters, we all know they finally got theirs. 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      A sensitive story but I didn't care for it as much as Balogh's other stories in this series. There was too much repetition of the characters' feelings and too much reiteration of the theme of feeling two different ways at the same time. He didn't want to go in, yes he did want to go in -- in so many many different circumstances. Okay, already, the characters are ambivalent or aren't sure of their feelings, we got the flick.
    • 5/5
      Flavian, who barely recovered from a head injury and madness during the Napoleonic War, knows that his fiancee broke their betrothal to marry his best friend, who has now died. He has never forgiven them, and has no interest in renewing the relationship despite the plans of his family and hers. Indeed, when he tries to remember the details, such as why he returned to the army when his beloved older brother was on his deathbed, he gets headaches. He visits a small village, where Vincent Darleigh has just had a baby, for a gathering of the Survivors Club, and meets Agnes Keeping, a friend of Vincent's wife.Agnes has locked her heart away from passion, knowing that her mother abandoned her family to go with her lover. But when she meets Flavian, who is quite obviously a charming rake but has an inexplicable yearning for her, she reluctantly lets herself agree to his marriage proposal. Their incipient relationship is wounded by her discovery that he married her to avenge his former love, or as he inexplicably thought to himself, to be safe from his former fiancee. Flavian has already realized he does not want to live without Agnes, so in a wary truce they talk through his memories. They slowly discover that the fiancee tried to trap Flavian into marriage by lying about him seducing her, after purposefully breaking his brother's heart. His brother sent Flavian back to the army to try to save him from that trap. Flavian hunts down Agnes' mother, against her wishes, and learns that she was basically driven out by her husband in a drunken and unjustified rage. Her mother made the one choice to not go back, and was divorced and has lived with regret ever since.Another beautiful story of two broken people who are drawn together and heal each other.