Bridgerton: The Duke and I: Bridgerton Family, Book 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Julia Quinn (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator), W. F. Howes Ltd (Publisher)

The first novel in Julia Quinn's worldwide best-selling Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke: welcome to the ballrooms of Regency London.....

Can there be any greater challenge to London's Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke? Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1813.

By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister, the lovely - and almost-on-the-shelf - Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of them know the truth - it's all an elaborate plan to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable....

Their ruse works like a charm - at first. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it's hard to remember that their courtship is a complete sham. Maybe it's his devilish smile, certainly it's the way his eyes seem to burn every time he looks at her. It wasn't the plan, but it seems she's falling for the duke, for real. And amidst the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule....

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Listening Length	12 hours and 9 minutes
Author	Julia Quinn
Narrator	Rosalyn Landor
Audible.in Release Date	20 July 2017
Publisher	W. F. Howes Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B073SBCDZ7
Best Sellers Rank	#243 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #1 in Regency Romance #15 in Historical Romance (Books) #113 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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Anonymous

Disappeared from my Kindle library after Netflix update

Reviewed in India on 27 December 2020

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Amazon! I had bought the Kindle version of this book way before the Netflix series came out. Now that you've revised the book listing to reflect the Netflix Series, the book has disappeared from my Kindle library. What's up?!

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sumedha balaji birajdar

A delightful read

Reviewed in India on 26 January 2021

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I picked this book to read after watching the fabulous and scandalous Netflix original series Bridgerton. I was so captivated by the characters in the series that though I know the story from the series I choose to read the first book. Turned out the story in the book is slightly different and in a good way too. The book is an utter delight to read. It is brilliantly written with intricate plot. The writer has well captured the description of characters, situations and emotions they go through. The words just flawlessly fell into place and made me fall in love with the style of writing. Especially lady whistledown who without any care in the world reveals all the scandalous details of the ton. The romance between protagonists is dreamy.

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Joanne

Julia Quinn is the best!

Reviewed in India on 19 August 2017

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Julia Roberts is the best. This was the first book of hers that I read so many years ago when my friend lent me the book. I fell in love with the Bridgerton siblings immediately and have since read all the other books as well multiple times. I finally had the chance to buy her books for myself and am so happy! :) Would also recommend to the readers to buy the books with 2nd Epilogue in them or to buy the compilation of the 2nd epilogues separately.

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I purchased the kindle version for my kindle device

Reviewed in India on 10 February 2021

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I haven't received a version that i can download and install on my kindle device. instead it is showing me the book for the app ...pls help

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Sarita

Two Stars

Reviewed in India on 3 November 2016

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Too sweet chick literature!

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Siva Saatwik

If I could give the book zero or negative star, I would have. Female lead is a rapist.

Reviewed in India on 27 May 2020

I have been a fan of historical romances for a long long time. But this book. This book made me want to take a break and put me off the author forever. I know for a fact that I would never ever read her book. No matter what.

The story started well enough. The chemistry between them was fun and I loved the banter. But then Daphne showed how horrible of a person she is and that was it for me. She turned out to be manipulative, a coward and a rapist. And she made him apologise when she was the one at fault. I would have been happy if she had been left alone and the male lead had divorced her disgusting butt. But nope, this book had a 'happy' ending and that sealed my promise to never read this author again.

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Bridgertons No 1

Reviewed in India on 11 January 2014

This wasn't the first Bridgerton book I read but as soon as I'd read the other one, I knew I had to read them ALL. So I began in chronological order. The Duke and I is absolutely marvellous. Simon is both funny and endearing and of course he's very much a Duke, you cant miss that. Daphne Bridgerton is my second favourite Bridgerton sister, the favourite being Hyacinth. Daphne is smart and the encounters between her and Simon are hilarious and romantic at the same time, but there's Julia Quinn for you. She pulls this off in every book! Love this writer.
Simon's dark childhood overshadows his life. He doesn't want to marry. Yet, he cannot resist Daphne. The shadows linger and Daphne must fight them alongside Simon. However, as circumstances would have it, the Duke must choose between being honourable and being honourable. What's the choice? Read the book and find out. Although the books can be read separately, it's so much more satisfying reading them in order. Start with this. You'll love the Bridgertons.

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Caitlin

Even ignoring the male rape scene it’s still not great

Reviewed in the United States on 24 October 2020

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Hoo boy. I used to read regency romance novels in college all the time and there’s a few books that are genuinely well written and I still occasionally reread them. I heard about the upcoming Shondaland series, which sounds exactly like something I’d love, and decided to check out the books. I had high hopes with all the positive reviews.

I’ll get to reviewing the quality of the material after this big thing that completely destroys this book and entire series for me: the main character Daphne rapes Simon and no one cares and there’s no consequences. One review I read also gave a bad review because of this but I genuinely thought they were wrong because there’s no way this would happen in an internationally best selling book with 1000 good reviews, right??? Nope, apparently I discounted how poorly understood male rape is in our society esp with female perpetrators. Was it “violent” or was he “forced”? Not really. Did he “””enjoy it”””? Technically, yes. But he was absolutely wasted, had no idea what was going on (which, drunk sex, it happens and can be fine) and then she (trying not to spoil??) very specifically decides to take advantage of his drunken state and do something to him he has EXPLICITLY said no to, multiple times over several instances. Is his reasoning on why not to do the thing stupid? Yes. More on his ridiculous character later. But it doesn’t matter if his reasons are dumb. He has said no to this many times and she has to sort of hold him down to get him to do it??? It’s very icky and was hard to read. He then, unsurprisingly, freaks out and is very upset and sort of has a mental breakdown? But he’s over it in about one chapter, there are no real consequences whatsoever, and Daphne explicitly thinks to herself “she’s not ashamed of what she did” afterwards. WTF??? I am so surprised more people aren’t taking about this with the adaptation announcement and I really hope the series drastically changes this.

Separately from this, is the book good? No, not really. I mean it’s readable, and I was entertained at least in the beginning. The family dynamics are cute and some scenes are funny but I read this 3 days ago and can’t remember anything else good about it. I can barely even remember Daphne’s personality. The pacing of the plot is a bit awkward alongside the pacing of the romantic development. Some scenes just stretch on into awkwardness with cringey dialogue but not in a funny, tongue in cheek way. Simon’s character is ridiculous and melodramatic to the point of exhaustion and the book leans heavily on the whole “tragic backstory” cliche but it barely even makes sense when you find out all his “secrets”. I love cheesy romance cliches and ridiculous characters in regency novels when they’re done well, when the cliches are cheeky and self aware and the book isn’t taking itself too seriously. This book fails at that. And I have no issue when characters act like a-holes or irrationally because of terrible things in their life. They’re only human. But Simon’s whole schtick is just ridiculous and so dragged out it's almost painful. Romance novels often get a pass for having not great or even bad writing, but I’ve read some genuinely fantastic and well written regency romance novels that are just so much better than this.

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Anisha

Hit and miss

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2020

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Have to agree more with the negative reviews on here. Decided to read this book in advance of the upcoming Netflix series as I hadn’t heard of the books before but enjoy a good period drama/romance.

Agree with the other reviews that the language and narrative were not right for the period the story is set in. It really felt like a supposedly historical version of ‘Gossip Girl.’ Nothing much happens in terms of plot, the events that do happen feel a bit contrived and there’s far too much sex described (one ‘scene’ or so is fine but it goes on and on) and agree that Daphne does indeed rape her husband (!) yet this is all poised as being perfectly acceptable behaviour because she’s apparently justified in her desire to have children at any cost.

Although I found myself able to read the book quite quickly, I don’t think I’ll be reading the others. I will give the Netflix series a try though!

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Mr C.Hatmaster

It's not worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2020

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the best thing about this book is that it has renewed my faith that I could too could get a book published

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Frances Bard

Wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2018

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I have had this waiting on my kindle for 3 years but made the schoolboy error of reading and allowing myself to be influenced by some negative reviews. I forgot that there are those who write lovely fiction and those who revel in being controversialists and write scathing reviews. Reviewers sometimes forget these are works of fiction so inevitably there will be significant tension,conflicts that are resolved in the course of the story. That is the case here but let's not get carried away- to describe the events that occur as rape (and i speak as an English lawyer) is a an exaggeration that wholly fails to take into account all of the circumstances. If you were going to be technical Daphne's consent to marriage and all it entailed was vitiated by her belief that Simon could not have children rather than he had chosen not to have them.
So put those issues aside and proceed on the basis that arising out of a very unhappy childhood Simon Duke of Hastings resolved not to have children and then let's his hatred for his father govern his life. He gets caught in a compromising situation with Daphne Bridgerton then refused to marry her because of the child issue and is challenged by her brother.He apparently prefers to die in a duel rather than marry her, is how Daphne sees it. She intervenes in the duel and they end up married. Daphne soon comes to understand that he could potentially have a child and in a drunken encounter that he is an active participant in she ensures he ‘completes’ the act of intercourse inside her. I think on any rational analysis she does it with mixed motives - she wants a child and she loves Simon very much and wants him to be happy. Not surprisingly she doesn't want his father to rule his life from beyond the grave. How this is resolved I thought was very well written,there was lots of angst,but essentially I thought Daphne and Simon were great characters and ultimately she did him a huge service . Ignore the naysayers it's a wonderful story. I intend to read the rest in the series.

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California Quinn

The First of an Auto-Buy Series... I guarantee it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2020

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Having just finished Lisa Kleypas's latest Ravenel book I was on the look-out for a new auto-buy author to feed by historical romance obsession when someone mentioned Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series... So I dived into this first book of the series, and found instant joy. The Bridgerton clan our eight strong, all named alphabetically so they are easy to keep in order and each one wonderfully real and witty and deliciously fun to read about. A Regency family with a matriach who keeps them all in line and is desperate to get them all married off. Daphne, the oldest daughter is the perfect match for the uber eligible Simon Bassett - a duke who is dark, handsome and was brought up with a complete lack of familial or parental affection. Of course neither he nor Daphne can figure out at first how perfect they are for each other – Simon's cynical wit matching Daphne's lively pragmatism and making for some hilarious exchanges – but when they make a Devil's bargain to keep marriage minded mammas off Simon's back by pretending to be engaged it's not long before the fake engagement starts to feel rather more real than imagined. And not long after that that Anthony - Daphne's super over protective older brother and Simon's friend - has gotten wind of the arrangement which threatens to upend Daphne's reputation. A brilliant introduction to this rambunctious clan with a heart-rending subtext about how important it is to be loved, if you are ever going to lead a full life... Needless to say I soon had a new auto-buy author and had quickly hoovered up all the other Bridgerton books in quick succession. What better way to spend a pandemic, frankly?

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