Norma Darcy appears to be a newly published author – I can find three books to her name on Amazon – so I was very pleasantly surprised to find that The Bluestocking and the Rake is an accomplished piece of work, and certainly one of the most enjoyable books I’ve come across by a new…
I originally chose Girl Underwater for review because Julia Whelan was listed as the narrator. The plot seemed kind of iffy, since I’m usually not a fan of stories that center around wilderness survival. However, it didn’t take me long to understand that Girl Underwater was a chance I’m very glad I took. Avery Delacorte…
Mary Balogh’s 1992 novel Beyond the Sunrise boasts a storyline quite unlike those found in the other books of hers I’ve read in that it’s mostly plot, rather than character driven. That isn’t a criticism, however, because I enjoyed this new audiobook very much. It isn’t without its problems, the principal of which lies with…
I suspect that even the most devoted of Amanda Quick’s fans would agree that her books tend to the formulaic. That’s not a criticism – there are times we all want to read or listen to something in which we know in advance what we’re going to get and that we’re likely to enjoy, and…
Breakwater Bay is the story of preservationist Mari Hollis. On the brink of turning thirty, Mari is sure her life is going to work out just the way she wants it to. She has a job she loves, restoring one of Rhode Island’s gilded age mansions to its former splendor. Her boyfriend is sure to…
In 1997, I listened to my very first Nora Roberts audiobook and I’ve been a fan of her romantic suspense titles ever since. Later, I gave a few of her trilogies a try, and while I liked them well enough, her stand-alone novels, featuring well-balanced romance and intrigue are far and away my favorites. So,…
Narrated by Carolyn Morris This is the final book in Maya Rodale’s Wallflower trilogy, and is the best of the lot. I enjoyed the first one (The Wicked Wallflower), which was full of humour and light-hearted banter, even though it did require rather a large suspension of disbelief at times; the second (Wallflower Gone Wild)…
Narrated by Kate Reading The Last Hellion is the last of the four books in Ms Chase’s Scoundrels series, which are linked via a number of recurring characters; and it can perhaps be seen as a sequel to the wonderful Lord of Scoundrels. We met Vere Mallory, Duke of Ainswood, in that story when, drunk…
Narrated by Steve West In A Scoundrel by Moonlight, the fourth book in Anna Campbell’s Sons of Sin series, the hero has a slightly different background to that of the other three, who are united by long-standing friendship and through the scandal they have weathered owing to the fact that they are all illegitimate. There…
With Trust No One, Ms. Krentz continues with straight romantic suspense with no paranormal elements. Thank goodness! But while I enjoyed the story, I found the narration uneven, and at times abysmal; I cannot recommend this in audio format. Buy it in print! The opening scenes throw us straight into a murder mystery when Grace…