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    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton
    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton
    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton

    Written by Stacy Reid

    Narrated by Felicity Hart

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    About this audiobook

    Beneath Lily Layton’s sweet and charming exterior beats the heart of a vixen—one with shocking and scandalous secrets and desires. But as a genteel lady, she confines her forbidden fantasies, like those about her employer’s devastatingly handsome son, to her diary…until she loses it.

    Oliver Carlyle, Marquess of Ambrose, has finally found the perfect wife, a woman who will not hide from his dark, carnal cravings. He just needs to figure out who she is. When he has a secret rendezvous with a mysterious stranger, suddenly he starts to believe she might be the author of the diary.

    He’s determined to find out who his mystery woman is…

    His biggest fear—and deepest fantasy—is she may be the one woman he cannot have.

    Each book in the Sweetest Taboo series is STANDALONE:
    * Sin and Ink by Naima Simone
    * Passion and Ink by Naima Simone
    * The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton by Stacy Reid

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781978647886
    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton
    Author

    Stacy Reid

    I am an avid reader of novels with a deep passion for writing. I especially love romance and adore writing about people falling in love. I live a lot in the worlds I create and I actively speak to my characters (out loud). I have a warrior way “never give up on my dream.” When I am not writing, I spend a copious amount of time drooling over Rick Grimes from Walking Dead, watching Japanese Anime and playing video games with my love. I also have a horrible weakness for Ice cream. :)

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    • 4/5
      Liked it up till the last two chapters and then I couldn’t care less, why do all romance novels have to have pregnancy in it?? But other than that I would say 5 stars ?

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    • 3/5
      This book was a little out there. In a roundabout way it is a love story. We have Mrs. Layton a widow who decided to keep a diary of all of her wanted thoughts. Her last husband was a vicar and constantly told her how she was wicked so Lily thought that her thoughts were wrong but she couldn't help her desires. She is working for Lady Ambrose and her son is gorgeous and she does have some scandalous thoughts about him. Lord Ambrose find this diary and sets out to find this woman, they have some secret liasons threw some secret passages in his home not knowing who the other was since it was dark. When he does find out who it is, he can't help but pursue her knowing that he could never marry her, she is not in his social circles but atlast love will conquer all and he wont care that he turns his mistress into his wife..There is some voyeurism involved..Rcvd an ARC at no cost to author..(netgalley) Voluntarily reviewed with my own thoughts and opinions.

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    • 2/5
      Still haven't finished it... it seems like it's very silly with a lot of sex, but the narrator's pronunciation of the titles Viscount & Marquess is driving me insane:(

      OK... I've just finished it now & wow... it's beyond silly at some points (even during some of the sex scenes... the words implausible come to mind)

      The narrator's affected accent is really grating & her weird pronunciation of some very common words is really jarring!

      Also, the fact that she never even attempts to change or deepen her voice, so that you immediately know who is speaking means you're paying more attention trying to figure out who's meant to be speaking.

      All in all, not for me... far too silly!



    • 3/5
      Lovely story. I didnt like the narration. Her voice was not a good fit.
    • 5/5
      So great! I love all of the happy things that happen for Lily.
    • 3/5
      Loved the story, but can't say the same about the narrator. She was wrong for a historical English Romance. Also unless she said who was speaking you couldn't tell if it was Oliver or Lily. Oliver's voice was like a woman's or even a girls sometimes. The sex scenes were very explicit and spicy, which I loved, but her voice wasn't sensual at all. Also she had an American accent most of the time the English accent, when it was there, wasn't convincing at all, it was very forced. As much as some people don't like Mary Sarah, who narrated the series Sinful Flowers by Stacy Reid, I much preferred her, if only she would pronounce some of her words properly and she would read the reviews, she could be very good.
      Won't be listening to A Historical English Romance narrated by Felicity Hart again.
    • 2/5
      I really like several books by this author, but this one was quite poor. I'm surprised that I've heard so many readers mention it (I'm thinking it must be like 90% just for the high steam). It seems like a first effort at writing, but I've read books by Reid that were published before this one that were much better. (Even if this *had* been written first and then set aside, I would still expect her later revisions to have improved it above this quality). The plot was laughable, the writing was sort of blundering, everything just seemed so amateur. It does have steam, and a lot of it, and I suppose that's its main selling point, but it's kind of sorry otherwise. The good news is that she's greatly improved from some of these early books!
    • 4/5
      I wish more people knew about Stacy Reid as she is becoming one of my favourite authors. Her books are interesting with good plots and full of heat.
    • 3/5
      This book was a little out there. In a roundabout way it is a love story. We have Mrs. Layton a widow who decided to keep a diary of all of her wanted thoughts. Her last husband was a vicar and constantly told her how she was wicked so Lily thought that her thoughts were wrong but she couldn't help her desires. She is working for Lady Ambrose and her son is gorgeous and she does have some scandalous thoughts about him. Lord Ambrose find this diary and sets out to find this woman, they have some secret liasons threw some secret passages in his home not knowing who the other was since it was dark. When he does find out who it is, he can't help but pursue her knowing that he could never marry her, she is not in his social circles but atlast love will conquer all and he wont care that he turns his mistress into his wife..There is some voyeurism involved..Rcvd an ARC at no cost to author..(netgalley) Voluntarily reviewed with my own thoughts and opinions.
    • 5/5
      The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton by Stacy ReidSimon Carlyle, 9th Marquess of Ambrose has found a diary that has him intrigued. He would LOVE to find the woman who wrote it as she seems made for him. He is in the market for a wife and wants to be true to her...but...he also wants to have a wife who will meet his needs...all of them. This book felt “of the times” and at times reminded me of the book Fanny Hill and yet with a bit more heat and better quality of writing. Clandestine meetings, couplings in the dark secret passages of an estate home, fantasies fulfilled and even though I felt this in some ways more fantasy than reality I truly did relate to Lily and Ambrose as they worked their way toward love and what that could and would mean to both of them with the differences in their stations and having to deal with a secret Lily was carrying.Did I enjoy this book? YesWould I read more in this series? YesWould I read more by this author? YesThank you to NetGalley and Entangled – Scorched for the ARC – This is my honest review. 5 Stars