Category: Melinda
It Happened One Wedding by Julie James
It’s Flashback Friday! One of my favorite audiobooks of all time, which I originally reviewed 10 years ago, for your Friday Flashbacking pleasure! Narrated by Karen White Originally reviewed and posted in 2014 It Happened One Wedding is the epitome of…
One Summer by Karen Robards
Today’s Throwback Thursday throws way, way back – it’s of a 2014 re-release of a recording done in 2000 of a book published in 1993. At 30 years, the book has slipped from Contemporary to Vintage/Historical. Karen Robards’ writing is…
Lady Be Good by SEP or An Open Love Letter to SEP & Kate Fleming
We are Flashing Way Back this Flashback Friday to October 2012, when I wrote this review for a now-vintage Romance by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from 1999! I hope you enjoy! Narrated by Anna Fields To be honest, I don’t know…
2013 Audie Winner – The Witness by Nora Roberts
This week’s Throwback Thursday is inspired by Kaetrin’s review of Nora Roberts’ 2021 title, Legacy. A decade ago, on May 20, 2013, the founders of AudioGals posted a “Three Gals Talk” review of The Witness which features the incomparable Julia…
Child of Mine by Karen Grey
Narrated by Erin Mallon and Tom Taylorson Isabelle York was a TV star – first as “Izzy”, the ever-optimistic 13-year-old on the children’s show Boom – and then a soap opera star – “Quinn” the hedonistic bad girl, a persona…
Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter
Narrated by Callie Dalton and Andrew Eiden Olivia Marshall is her family’s black sheep – she has the worst luck ever, and since she just burned down her apartment building while incinerating the letters of her cheating ex, she’s bunking…
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen Honestly, I thought Weather Girl was a Rom Com, one of my favorite micro-genres. The praise on the Penguin Audio website uses such phrases as “tender, hilarious” and “perfect storm of classic rom-com delights”. The author…
Try Right by Jill Brashear
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Mackenzie Cartwright Try Right is book 3 in Brashear’s Aloha series, set in 1968. Claudia is a well-known and sought after Hollywood actress until a scandal all but ruins her career, sending her to the…
The Layover by Lacie Waldon
Narrated by Jorgeana Maria The Layover was an unexpectedly delightful surprise, with both author and narrator being new to me (author début). As the book started, I was concerned about the plotline – Ava is a flight attendant, recently engaged…