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    A Risk Worth Taking
    A Risk Worth Taking
    A Risk Worth Taking
    Audiobook8 hours

    A Risk Worth Taking

    Written by Laura Landon

    Narrated by James Langton

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    About this audiobook

    Griffin Blackmoor blames himself for the tragic accident that claimed his wife and young son. Riddled with guilt, he prays that during the Crimean War an enemy’s bullet will end the consuming torture he can’t escape. Instead, that bullet finds his best friend. Now there isn’t enough whiskey in England to make him forget all the people who have died because of him. But before he can drown himself in an endless sea of liquor, he must keep the promise he made his dying friend. Except that promise is sure to risk an innocent woman’s life—and his own battered heart.

    When her brother’s sudden death leaves her destitute, Lady Anne Carmichael knows she must marry. Although her dark beauty earns her the attention of London’s most eligible bachelors, only one man can stir her soul with his kisses. Griffin Blackmoor is everything she swore she never wanted. So why does his love feel like exactly what she needs?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781480558311
    A Risk Worth Taking
    Author

    Laura Landon

    Laura Landon taught high school for ten years before leaving the classroom to open her own ice-cream shop. As much as she loved serving up sundaes and malts from behind the counter, she closed up shop after penning her first novel. Now she spends nearly every waking minute writing, guiding her heroes and heroines to happily ever after. She is the author of more than a dozen historical novels, including Silent Revenge, The Most to Lose, and Intimate Deception from Montlake Romance. Her books are enjoyed by readers around the world. She lives with her family in the rural Midwest, where she devotes her free time to volunteering in her community.

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    • 2/5
      It was just okay. There really wasn't a great deal of character development and even less of the H and h's relationship and the eventual "love story/romance." I'm not a fan of constant reminders of main characters reminiscing about lost love, grieving , etc. In my opinion, it negatively competes with the relationship of the new romance, and this one had this in abundance. Maybe an epilogue would have helped... the ending was also pretty anticlimactic .
    • 4/5
      Griffin Blackmoor is a tortured man. He has lost too many loved ones in his lifetime and blames himself for their deaths. He refuses to let anyone else close, especially as he believes the danger that threatens is still very much present.
      He takes to drinking, and his friends and family fear for his health...and his life.
      His late friend's dying wish was for him to take care of his sister, and Griff's brother uses her to blackmail him into sobriety.
      Can he stay sober? Can he let himself love again? And will the danger take another person from him?

      The only thing that detracted from the story for me, was the hero's relationship with his late wife. He loved her desperately. He mourned her as we would all want to be mourned if such tragedy struck. But the author didn't seem to have a plan for how she would then have him set that love aside and move on to a new love. I felt that the late wife was demeaned a bit by the author so that we wouldn't feel bad that he was putting his love for her aside. Ugh. Not cool! *Sad* I would rather that both Griff and Anne had accepted that the late wife would always hold a special place in his heart but that she'd want him to move on and love again, etc etc.

      Having said that, it was a minor thing (and fairly subtle I think), and overall I enjoyed the book and recommend it.