Happy Friday! The Gals have been listening to quite the eclectic mix this week – how’s your listening week been?
BJ
Narrated by Amanda Ronconi
Caz
Narrated by Siobhan Waring
Em
Narrated by Kate Reading
Kaetrin
Narrated by Jacob Morgan and Virginia Rose
Melinda
Narrated by Emma Wilder
Shannon
Narrated by Kirsten Potter
I listened to Mary Jo Putney’s The Rake and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. I also listened to Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen, which is part of her Brooklyn Bruisers hockey series. It’s a bit different than the rest of the series, but I liked it quite well. It has the ‘Oh no! There’s only one bed!’ trope which can be lots of fun. It’s suspenseful and sexy and it has Jason Clarke narrating. It was exactly the book I needed with one of my favorite narrators. Win/win!
The Rake has been a favourite of mine for a long time, and I was SO relieved that when it came out in audio, the publisher chose a narrator who really did it justice! Some of the earlier books in MJP’s Fallen Angels series had TERRIBLE narrators (I reviewed one of them – yuk!) but Siobhan Waring (who I’m sure I’ve heard before, but under a different name; I just can’t place her) is doing a great job, so I may try more of her work.
I have a Jason Clarke audiobook on my TBL right now – he’s the current ‘flavour of the month’ when it comes to contemps, and deservedly so. That said, I can only do CR in very small doses…
Jason Clarke has a great voice for CRs, and he is also a good actor. I enjoy CR more than I used to since I started listening rather than reading. Good readers can bring out the nuance more effectively than the written page in many cases. With Moonlighter it was kind of a no-brainer because of 1) Sarina Bowen and 2) Brooklyn Bruisers. It’s my favorite hockey series, especially the last 4 or so. This book had some Nate&Becca sightings too, and they’re my fave couple in the series.
He does :) If he were to record entire books (instead of sharing narration duties) I’d probably listen to more CR too! But while there are a few female narrators I don’t mind listening to, I find a lot of them very same-y.
I hear you. The male pov sections are often fewer and shorter than the female ones, too. So far, all of Talia Hibbert’s audiobooks have solo male narrators with 3rd person pov’s. I have not listened to all of them, but I do love her Ravenswood series. So you might try one of those next time you’re in a CR kind of mood.
I see her Work For It (which is m/m) is coming out in January, although no narrator is listed yet. Fingers crossed for someone good!
The readers on Hibbert’s Facebook page have been raving about Work for It, so I’m very excited about the audio too! I’m certainly hoping for a British narrator, like she had for Ravenswood. He (Rupert Channing, I think?) was excellent, so that set the bar pretty high. Fingers crossed!
The Lemon Sisters by Jill Shalvis