Romance Audio Books Reviews

A Loving Scoundrel - Johanna Lindsey - Audio Book

2007-05-24T06:02:00.000-07:00

A Loving Scoundrel - Johanna Lindsey : Enter the privileged world of English aristocrats and experience the passion, intrigue, and romantic pleasures of the incomparable Malorys - a family of dashing rogues, rakehell, adventurers, and spirited ladies. Now Jeremy, the son of gentleman pirate James Malory,falls in love. . . .

When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real
family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he wants her as his mistress.

Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Although she is drawn to Jeremy by passionate feelings she has never experienced before, she refuses to be anything more than a servant to him because she knows he is not the marrying kind.

When Danny undergoes a Cinderella-like transformation and poses as Jeremy's new love in an attempt to help him avert a scandal, a few highly placed members of the ton remark on how familiar Danny looks. Now tongues are wagging, raising the question of her true identity,which threatens not only Dann.

This book gives us the romance, mystery,intigue and comedy that usually comes with a good Lindsey Romance. OK ! I do agree that too much emphasis was put on the language uses by Danny but its in line wiht the street thief story which comes in the "aristocratic's world". A relaxing reading.

Naked in Death - J.D. Robb - Audio Book

2007-05-14T04:30:00.000-07:00

Naked in Death - J.D. Robb : Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all - and knows that her survival depends on
her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire - and suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it's up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about - except the addictive hunger of needing his touch.

An edgy, fast paced novel, providing murder, police drama and romance. New York detective Eve Dallas is assigned to the murder of a high class hooker. The investigation leads her through twists and turns and she becomes involved with one of her suspects, If you like mystery, suspence and romance.. you will like this book. Just don't expect it to start out with a bang.

Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber - Audio Book

2007-04-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber : They were sisters once. Almost forty years ago, in a more innocent time, two girls enter the convent. Angelina and Joanna come from vastly different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common -- a desire to serve, to join in the community of sisters.

Despite the relative seclusion of the convent house in Minneapolis, they're not immune to what's happening in the world around them. In 1972 Angie's involvement with a pregnant teenager triggers a crisis of faith. At the same time, Joanna's relationship with a Vietnam veteran brings her face-to-face with the choices she made -- and didn't make -- in her own life.

Then, Angie and Joanna leave the sisterhood, abandoning the convent for the exciting and confusing world outside. The world of choices to be made, of risks to be taken. Of men and romantic love.

This book is full of compassion, of love and I have to say of grace as well. Debbie Macomber has a real talent to enter into women's live and to explain their confusion, their internal fight, their confrontation with the outside world, simply to explain the life of very ordinary people.

Saffron Skies - Lesley Lokko - Audio Book

2007-04-26T10:33:00.000-07:00

Saffron Skies - Lesley Lokko : Max Sall, powerful, wealthy and utterly ruthless, a man without a past. His wife, Angela, a society debutante who fell in love with the dark, handsome chauffeur, and broke her parents' hearts when she married him.

His mistress: Francesca, the glamorous Alitalia air stewardess, who saw in Max her ticket out of the Italian provinces and grabbed it - and him - with both hands.

And his daughters: Amber, more like her father than she'll ever know - smart, shrewd and determined to achieve, whatever the cost; and Paola, groomed by her mother to succeed where she failed, in getting a man to marry her.

Max's women are very different, but they all demand his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up in the 1970s, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing...

Saffron Skies is a good read and have lots of characters. It spans five decades, which allow us to enter into Max's story and his daughters' story too. We do experience the major points in their lives (love, happines, heartbreak, jealousy). There is as well plenty of action and beautiful descriptions of various locations. To read very quietly because the story is very dense.

Always Time To Die - Elizabeth Lowell - Audio Book

2007-04-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Always Time To Die - Elizabeth Lowell : The powerful Quintrell family of New Mexico has spent decades in the public eye. Now the recent death of the clan's patriarch has placed his son, Governor Josh Quintrell, squarely in the spotlight as he prepares his run for the highest political office in the land. It is not a good time to be rattling skeletons in the family's closets.

Researching personal histories isn't just Carolina "Carly" May's profession, it's her passion. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about the would-be president's private life. And it soon becomes frighteningly apparent that someone is determined to remove the inquisitive genealogist from the picture by any means necessary.

Carly realizes that there is no one whom she dares to trust -- perhaps least of all Dan Duran, a dangerous and haunted mystery man who's somehow tied to the Quintrells' past. But she will need an ally to survive because following the bloodlines of the wealthy and power-hungry can be a bloody business ...

Its well done mix of romance and thriller, an "historical romance" as well if I may say so.

Key of Knowledge - Nora Roberts - Audio Book

2007-03-26T01:47:00.000-07:00

Key of Knowledge - Nora Roberts : What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That's what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior's Peak.

To Dana Steele books and the knowledge they hold are the key to contentment. But now that search for knowledge must include the second key needed to release three souls held captive by an evil god.

She won't be alone, for she's formed fast frienships with two very different women. She can't allow herself to be distracted by the return of the man who broke her heart so long ago, for a danger beyond anyone's imagination is determined to keep her from completing her quest.

Its the search of this second key which makes this audio book so breathtaking !

Biography Audiobooks - Good Reviews

2007-03-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

If you have a need for some more serious stuff, then it's always a good idea to read, respectively hear from great people of our time and times past. Biographies are a good means to find out what made a certain personality tick or what big events in their lifes happend and why.

Audiobooks add a nice touch to these biographies, often they have audio documents like excerpts of speeches or interviews, and ever so often the person who did an autobiography reads it himself or herself. The biography audiobook blog has nice reviews.

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For Matrimonial Purposes - Kavita Daswani - Audio Book

2007-03-24T02:33:00.000-07:00

For Matrimonial Purposes - Kavita Daswani : Unmarried at 24 - and with no prospects in sight - Anju is a great source of worry to her family. Despite the best efforts of relatives, fortune-tellers, and matchmakers to arrange a marriage, she can't seem to find a husband - or at least one she's willing to marry. Quickly becoming a spinster by her culture's standards, she is eager to escape the community that views her as a failure. After pleading with her parents for permission, she boards a plane bound for the United States and a dream of a career. And while husband-hunting isn't any easier in New York City, at least she's got company.

In this sparkling debut, an unconventional heroine defies tradition by making a marriage between the strict customs of India and the wild freedoms of America to find her own happy ending. Hilarious and heart-warming, For Matrimonial Purposes proves that, while the search for love takes many forms, the heartbreak and exhilaration are universal.

Much more better than any "Bollywood" productions !

Some Enchanted Evening - Christina Dodd - Audio Book

2007-03-20T03:17:00.000-07:00

Some Enchanted Evening - Christina Dodd : Pursued by the crown prince who wishes to save her, by an English magistrate who wants to imprison her, and by revolutionaries who plan to murder her, Princess Clarice flees to Scotland where she attracts the attention of a most powerful and dangerous man.

Justice is Robert MacKenzie's only desire, but the moment he sees Clarice riding into town he is overcome with emotions that have been buried for far too long. Feeling he must have her at any cost, he invites her to stay with him at his manor house and won't take no for an answer.

Soon Robert knows all of Clarice's secrets and he uses this knowledge to blackmail her into giving her unwilling aid to his own perilous plan. Caught between her need to protect her sister and the man who mixes dark emotions with passionate kisses, Clarice plunges into Robert's world.

But Robert does not know to what he has committed himself !

Angel Falls - Kristin Hannah - Audio Book

2007-03-17T03:09:00.000-07:00

Angel Falls - Kristin Hannah : Michaela, beloved wife and mother of two, lies in a coma. Doctors have told her husband Liam not to expect a recovery, but he maintains hope that love can accomplish what medicine cannot. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, holding her hand, sharing the stories of their life together.

Then he discovers the evidence of his wife's secret past - a long hidden first marriage to international movie star Julian. When he sees photos of her glowing happiness with Julian, he knows the actor was more than simply Michaela's first husband. He was the love of her life. Liam senses that Julian is the one person who can bring her back to life, but at what cost? Can Liam
love his wife enough to risk losing her to a man no woman could resist?

It is the eternal dilemma: are we able to let go a beloved one to save himself/herself from it's past? A good analysis.

London Is the Best City in America - Laura Dave - Audio Book

2007-03-13T06:17:00.000-07:00

London Is the Best City in America - Laura Dave : Three years ago, Emmy Everett made the painful decision to call off her engagement and leave New York City behind. Since then she has been hiding out in Rhode Island working at a bait and tackle shop and haphazardly shooting a documentary about fishermen’s wives.

July 4th weekend has rolled around again and Emmy is mustering up the courage to return home to New York (the site of her own failed romance) to celebrate her brother Josh’s wedding. En route to his bachelor party, Emmy is shocked when her typically resolute brother confesses that he is having serious doubts about getting married - and he may even be in love with another woman.

About the difficulties to explain to someone else what he/she is going to go through without being to invasive. A difficult but necessary journey.

The Abduction - James Grippando - Audio Book

2007-03-11T01:02:00.000-08:00

The Abduction - James Grippando : Allison Leahy is the US Attorney General, the most renowned lawyer in America. She and her wealthy husband are the twenty-first-century version of the couple who has it all: a happy marriage and two successful careers. To top it off,
Allison is the highly touted Democratic nominee for the presidency.

Her opponent is Lincoln Howe, a retired four-star general and bona fide African-American hero. Like Allison, howe is living the American dream, and for months the candidates hav run neck and neck. Both sides need just one extra push to swing the election - and on Halloween morning, they get it: A twelve year old girl is kidnapped on her way to school. The girl is Kristen Howe, Lincoln Howe's granddaughter. The nation and the candidate explode in outrage. As Attorney General, Allison launches a massive nationwide manhunt. But her motives are under fire, as each side claims the other is exploiting the tragedy and manipulating the investigation for political advantage.

Breathtaking story with many unexpected new developments.

Gods In Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson - Audio Book

2007-03-08T10:22:00.000-08:00

Gods In Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson : When Arlene Fleet heads up north for college, she makes three promises to God: She will stop fornicating with every boy who crosses her path; never tell another lie; and never, ever go back to the "fourth rack of hell," her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants from Him is one little miracle: make sure the body is never found.

Ten years later, God has broken His end of the deal. Alabama has landed on Arlene's Chicago doorstep in the form of her high school archenemy, a young woman who wants to find the golden-haired football hero who disappeared during their senior year.

The eternal fight from past and present, the question of race and all intrigues which go with .

Gossip Girl - Cecily von Ziegesar - Audio Book

2007-03-01T04:01:00.000-08:00

Gossip Girl - Cecily von Ziegesar : Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play and sleep - sometimes with each other.Enter the scandalous world of Gossip Girl - a world inhabited by the city's most fabulous crowd; a world of jealousy, betrayal, and naughty pictures on the sides of buses.

I'll be watching closely. I'll be watching all of us. It's going to be a wild and wicked year. I can smell it.

"Ever wondered what the lives of the chosen ones are really like?.Just listen to this audio book and you will may be have the beginning of an answer.

Bad Boy - Olivia Goldsmith - Audio Book

2007-02-28T05:32:00.000-08:00

Bad Boy - Olivia Goldsmith : Best friends Tracie and Jonny meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves boys with an affinity for leather jackets and poetry - classic bad boys who seem too good to be true (and usually are); Jonny falls for girls who never like him in that way . . . until Jonny convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. After a wardrobe makeover, learning to return from a dinner date with another phone number scrawled on his hand, scope for women at the airport baggage claim, and always carry a motorcycle helmet (even though he doesn't ride a motorcycle), Jonny quickly becomes a successful heartbreaker.

My God! What a pleasure to plunge into this novel and to remember the best friend whom we had and to whom we entrusted everything to notice that what we were looking for was simply there!

The Goodbye Summer - Patricia Gaffney - Audio Book

2007-02-27T00:47:00.000-08:00

The Goodbye Summer - Patricia Gaffney : How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighbor hood children one summer can make the whole world look different.

Caddie's mother died when she was nine, and her grandmother raised her. Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie who takes care of Nana. When her grandmother breaks a leg and insists on going into a convalescent home, Caddie finds herself being pulled out of her comfy, self-made nest. Living alone for the first time since college, she uncovers some startling truths from her past.

Somewhere it remind us of the long way we have to go through before knowing whom we were.
Moving.

The Family Way - Tony Parsons - Audio Book

2007-02-24T06:56:00.000-08:00

The Family Way - Tony Parsons : A hard-working trainee doctor, Megan Jewell finds herself accidentally pregnant. She wants a baby one day but God, not now! Can Megan really bring a baby into the world when she can hardly look after herself?Megan’s happily married sister Jessica
wants a baby immediately. But her husband Paolo is worried. He loves his wife and
he sees what a baby is doing to his brother’s marriage.

This audio book is about the dilemmas and decision that confront the today's human being. Something to learn again about our behaviour.

Texas Rich - Fern Michaels - Audio Book

2007-02-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

Texas Rich - Fern Michaels : Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin…to the 250,000-acre spread known as Sunbridge and into the tantalizing world of the Texas rich. In a vast land dominated by the industrious Colemans, Billie fights to maintain control of her life and her marriage.

A story as interesting as the land in which it takes place

The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler - Audio Book

2007-02-22T00:29:00.000-08:00

The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler : A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.

Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet,
marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.

We all know that in our today's world relationships are far from being easy. This audio book is real fun to listen to.

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - Audio Book

2007-02-19T01:45:00.000-08:00

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston : Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.

The story "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in this audio book opens again another door
through which we have another point of view of the Afro-American culture.

Divining Women - Kaye Gibbons - Audio Book

2007-02-16T08:26:00.000-08:00

Divining Women - Kaye Gibbons : Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop - cold and careless of her condition - is an emotional cripple who has battered her spirit throughout their marriage. As Maureen's time grows near, she becomes convinced she will die in childbirth. Into this loveless menage comes Mary Oliver, Troop's niece.

The sheltered child of a well-to-do freethinking Washington family, Mary arrives to help Maureen in the last weeks of her confinement. Horrified by Troop's bullying, she soon discovers that her true duty is to protect her aunt.

A very powerful new novel by Kaye Gibbons who till the end of this audio book won't let us know how the intrigue will finish.

Blue Dahlia - Nora Roberts - Audio Book

2007-02-14T00:23:00.000-08:00

Blue Dahlia - Nora Roberts : A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge.

But someone isn't happy about the budding romance, the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride's spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share.

Behind a nice love story there generally is a dark side. This audio book make you feel this
perculiar atmosphere. Very interesting.

Manhunt - Janet Evanovich - Audio Book

2007-02-12T00:48:00.000-08:00

Manhunt - Janet Evanovich : Alexandra Scott, Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It had a terrific ring to it, but Alex felt a sudden twinge of uncertainty. She'd traded in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods and a bait & tackle store. She'd wanted to escape the rat race and to go husband-hunting where men outnumbered women four to one,
but was she ready for the challenge?

Lots of lovable characters in Evanovich's work ensures that readers keep coming back for more and to convince yoursel just listen to this audio book. It's worth it.

Hey, Good Looking - Fern Michaels - Romance Audio Book

2007-02-04T07:17:00.000-08:00

Hey, Good Looking - Fern Michaels - Romance Audio Book - Fern Michaels is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Family Blessings , the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nosy Neighbor , Pretty Woman , Crown Jewel, The Real Deal, Late Bloomer, Trading Places, No Place Like Home, Kentucky Sunrise, Plain Jane.

Fern Michaels inspires and entertains with a touching tale of the transforming power of love—and a woman whose broken heart finds room for the simple pleasures of family and home, and for discovering true love in the last place she expected.

When I listen the audio book of "Hey, Good Looking" it was as if I was this woman who found her way back to the simple life. Really amazing.

Wild Orchids - Jude Deveraux - Romance Audio Book

2007-02-04T06:47:00.000-08:00

Wild Orchids - Jude Deveraux - Romance Audio Book : Jude Deveraux is the author of thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, including Wild Orchids, Holly, The Mulberry Tree, The Summerhouse, and Temptation.

Since the death of his wife, author Ford Newcombe has lived a life of solitude, barely able to put pen to paper. If there's one thing that Ford needs it's inspiration, and it finally comes in the guise of Jackie Maxwell-a smart, sassy university researcher with just enough attitude to match Ford's sharp intellect. As Ford and Jackie grow closer, they discover a connection between their lives and the past, a connection that not only helps them solve a long-ago crime but offers the promise of new love.

This book contained exactly what I love : suspense, mistery and a happy end.