How to Be a Proper Lady

Listener Reviews

1. 4.0(1)

   Why Do Romance Writers?

   I hate it when these female writers victimize the female protagonist. The supposedly good guy takes advantage when she is at her most vulnerable. And it happens on the stairs. This is a strong woman who Captains a ship with a 50 man crew and she folds to her new hire whose ship she blew out of the water. He comes aboard challenging every order she gives to her crew. He disagrees and seemingly wants to take command of her ship. Why do these writers make their female leads slaves to the passion of some overbearing male? Do you really believe that all women are that easy?

   Latisha Witt · May 3, 2025

2. 4.0(1)

   Horrible narration

   Had the story not been interesting, I would have returned this book. The narrator is always horrible, mispronunciations galore, but this one was especially egregious. The fake accent is annoying and I spent a lot of time correcting the pronunciation of dozens of words. She must be pretty ignorant of the world not to know that the Irish character’s name, Seamus, is not pronounced “see muss.” Or that Berkley Square in London is pronounced “Barkley”

   Regan Meeks · February 21, 2024

3. 3.0(1)

   A 24 Year Old Female Ships captain

   is more of a talkative bully and not very likeable. He's not the bad boy he's made out to be. After a preposterous first half and the 2 falling in love, then she turns into Eliza Doolittle and ....well I really didn't care. I got my credit back on this one.

   Heather Gutierrez · November 13, 2018

4. 4.0(1)

   Entertaining

   I very much enjoyed this book, even though not a likely circumstance. Beautiful, smart, sexy female boat captains were not common place in the early 1800's. Ms. Ashe, however, made the story fun with clever dialogue and kept the story moving with out getting bogged down with repeating details.

   What ruined this book for me was the narration. Not so much Mary Sarah as she tried to breathe life into the characters, but volume issues. I listened to this book via my Kendal, with a speaker and finally using my iPhone. If I was able to get the normal reading loud enough, then when tones went up it blew my ear drums out. I was frustrated throughout, got my best results with the use of the iPhone.

   Eliana Mack · November 11, 2018