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Let Me Be The One (Compass Club #1)
by
Jo Goodman
In bestselling author Jo Goodman's captivating new quartet, you'll meet the four intriguing gentlemen of the Compass Club -- North, South, East, and West -- as they find adventure, excitement, and, of course, romance. Now, in book one of this sweeping and sensual series set in Regency England, join Brendan David Hampton, Earl of Northam, as he unravels a mystery.and the se...more
Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages
Published
September 1st 2002
by Zebra
(first published January 1st 2002)
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Let Me Be the One is the first book in Jo Goodman's Compass Club. Brendan David Hampton, Earl of Northam finds himself intrigued by Libby Pinrose, who is superior Officer, has tasked him with checking up on her. Her quiet and composed demeanor compels him to dig deeper because he is certain she is hiding something. Northam's instincts are correct because she certainly is hiding a dark secret.
I really enjoy Jo Goodman's writing but I have never listened to one of her books before and wondered how...more
I really enjoy Jo Goodman's writing but I have never listened to one of her books before and wondered how...more
It was a good book, yes, but I can't say I actually liked it that much. And especially the heroine. There were reasons for the ways she acted, but it took such a long time for them to be revealed that I was already getting very tired of her. And the hero, although okay initially, just kept going down in my estimation over the course of the book. (The heroine's father was probably my least favorite character besides the villains, though. The way he treated the heroine was just... Argh!)
So yes, th...more
So yes, th...more
3 1/2 stars. Its hard to rate this one. I liked the story very much, I have no fault with the writing, but it just seemed so slooooow... I found this also with If His Kiss Is Wicked
Also there are 4 books to this series. They are each based on one of the 4 friends that make up the compass club. This one was about the Earl of Northam. Book 2: Earl of Southerton
Book 3: Marquess of Eastlyn and Book 4: Duke of Westphal. A bit silly eh? But I assure you, there is no silly substance to this book. No f...more
Also there are 4 books to this series. They are each based on one of the 4 friends that make up the compass club. This one was about the Earl of Northam. Book 2: Earl of Southerton
Book 3: Marquess of Eastlyn and Book 4: Duke of Westphal. A bit silly eh? But I assure you, there is no silly substance to this book. No f...more
England, 1818
Brendon (“North”) and Elizabeth
Okay, I have quite a few books that I can't write really "formal" reviews on lately because I'm too busy, so I'll just write my "informal thoughts" on becuase I don't want them to go by "forgotten."
"Let me be the One" by Jo Goodman was my very first book by her and I have to say it was a mixed bag, but mostly wonderful. I liked it (obviously because I gave it 4 stars).
From the beginning, the Heroine's "guardians" were very suspicious in whatever they...more
Brendon (“North”) and Elizabeth
Okay, I have quite a few books that I can't write really "formal" reviews on lately because I'm too busy, so I'll just write my "informal thoughts" on becuase I don't want them to go by "forgotten."
"Let me be the One" by Jo Goodman was my very first book by her and I have to say it was a mixed bag, but mostly wonderful. I liked it (obviously because I gave it 4 stars).
From the beginning, the Heroine's "guardians" were very suspicious in whatever they...more
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Unabridged audiobook review from Speaking of Audiobooks column 3/08/10:
Narrated by Virginia Leishman
Discovering that the entire Compass Club series was available in audio format, I listened to this, the first of four in the series and found I was quite pleased with the experience. The story contains a few too many coincidences or plot twists to be a favorite but narrator Virginia Leishman’s performance was such that I enjoyed nearly every moment. Leishman differentiates the characters more with...more
Narrated by Virginia Leishman
Discovering that the entire Compass Club series was available in audio format, I listened to this, the first of four in the series and found I was quite pleased with the experience. The story contains a few too many coincidences or plot twists to be a favorite but narrator Virginia Leishman’s performance was such that I enjoyed nearly every moment. Leishman differentiates the characters more with...more
Listened to the audiobook: I want to lean more towards a 4 star, but honestly I spent the majority of the book confused by all of the mystery. The author did a great job keeping you completely clueless to what was really going on but it may have been too mysterious. There were points where I was so perplexed that I almost stopped listening, since I was listening to it, I was having trouble keeping track of all the characters and I was also working on a deadline that may have distracted me. Eith...more
Well written and engaging.
3.5 - 4 stars
Brendan, Earl of Northam, commonly known as North, attends at a house party held by Lord + Lady Battenburn. Here we are introduced to his 3 school chums, South, East and West, who make up the Compass Club ( yes this is the first in a quintet).
North is on a double mission: discover the identity of the Gentleman Thief, who has been robbing the Ton and also to befriend his patron Colonol Blackwood's relative Lady Elizabeth Penrose and ascertain the nature of...more
3.5 - 4 stars
Brendan, Earl of Northam, commonly known as North, attends at a house party held by Lord + Lady Battenburn. Here we are introduced to his 3 school chums, South, East and West, who make up the Compass Club ( yes this is the first in a quintet).
North is on a double mission: discover the identity of the Gentleman Thief, who has been robbing the Ton and also to befriend his patron Colonol Blackwood's relative Lady Elizabeth Penrose and ascertain the nature of...more
Let Me Be the One, Jo Goodman – Goodman has such a sizable body of work that it’s intimidating to know which one to read when I’m in the mood for one of her books. I have decided to read her “Compass Club” series, and so far so good. As with the other books of hers that I’ve read, this one is fairly dark in tone in that the heroine, Elizabeth, is a woman very much in need of rescue. There are some unsavory themes including blackmail as well as one’s precarious role in a society that puts severe...more
I loved it! Just plain loved it! the way the setting has been put and all the characters at some point have to interact and *sigh* i really liked it. Although I have been reading the series not in order, I have a feeling this was my fav. North(the hero) deserves Elizabeth(the heroine) as much as she deserves him. The way they come to love each other is implacably cute!
I read this really fast because I wanted to figure out what was wrong with the heroine. A little over the top. That is a lot of bad stuff to happen to one person
This is the first of four books in this series. I found North to be a very detail oriented character. He is considered a prig; I didn't think that. The series is more about the male characters and their roles in government. I enjoyed the story, the background of the four male characters and the development of the plot.
I really liked the other Compass Club I read and I liked a lot of things about this book, but the gender dynamics were just way too weird for me.
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Regency
I enjoyed this book more than I'd expected. For the first three quarters of the book I'd imagined all kinds of intricate plots regarding Elizabeth's past. In the end, though, I was a little disatisfied with the author's version. And North was a little too accepting than would be believable. I imagine he should have had a lot more questions.
Unfortunately, I had read the last book (west's story) in the series a while ago. Still, I enjoyed the book. At times it was difficult to follow all that happened as the 4 stories are virtually running parallel to each other with everything tied together in the last book. (HEA are in all 4 books)
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To find characters to illustrate my first family saga, I cut out models from the Sears catalogue. I was in fourth grade, but it was a start. In seventh grade I wrote a melodrama about two orphan sisters, one of whom was pregnant. There was also a story about a runaway girl with the unlikely name of Strawberry and one about mistaken identities and an evil blind date. My supportive, but vaguely conc...more
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“He chuckled. "I cannot speak for other men, but I want the woman who stumbles over a word like virgin and can say whore without raising a blush." His smile faded and he spoke soberly. "Your soldier… your first love… and every circumstance that followed in some way brought you to me, and while I can wish that you had never had your heart hurt, that you had never suffered even a moment of doubt, of pain, of sadness… of betrayal, I also know that you would in some way be changed. It would have made your life different. Mine also." North gave her hand a light squeeze. "Whether we are shaped by the circumstances of our lives, or by our perceptions of them, I still find I very much admire the shape you have become.”
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