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Favourite audiobooks from 2015

February 17, 2016 / Kaetrin

I mentioned in this post that the audiobooks listed at AudioGals were my favourite listens where my reviews were posted there and I planned to do a post here to make up my top ten. My sense of fairness was pricked by leaving out the excellent romance audios I listened to from my own library or provided direct to me by publishers/authors. In no particular order, the other top five are:

Noble Satyr by Lucinda Brant, narrated by Alex Wyndham. My list could not have been complete without at least one Brant title. Alex Wyndham was my “find” of 2015 in terms of excellent new narrators. His work here is stellar and the story is excellent too. Georgian romances featuring rakish and mysteriously enigmatic heroes are my catnip. Continue reading

Review at Dear Author

February 16, 2016 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Getting Him Back by KA Mitchell. Very good sexy and sweet new adult offering from KA Mitchell.

AudioGals’ Valentine to 2015

February 12, 2016 / Kaetrin

As promised in December, we at AudioGals have posted out top five (or in some cases, six) listens from 2015. The criteria was that we had to have reviewed them at AudioGals of course – this explains why some of my other favourites are not on the list. I might post my non-AudioGals top 5 listens for 2015 to round things out but that’s for another day.

Happy (nearly) Valentine’s Day everyone!

Review at Dear Author

February 11, 2016 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Carolina Dreaming by Virginia Kantra. A delight.

Review at Dear Author

February 9, 2016 / Kaetrin

Janine and I are over at Dear Author with a joint review of Kings Rising by CS Pacat, the brilliant end to the Captive Prince trilogy. The review is basically spoiler-free but the comments are open season.

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Saving Grace by Kristen Proby

February 5, 2016 / Kaetrin

Why I read it: I bought it for 99c when it was a DA Daily Deal recently.

What it’s about: (from Goodreads) Sparks fly like snowflakes when a klutzy but gorgeous novice crosses skis with a hot resort owner in this tempting tie-in to New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby’s popular Love Under the Big Sky series!

Grace Douglas is on a practice run for her friend Cara Donovan’s bachelorette party ski weekend in Aspen. The problem is, despite living in rugged and picturesque Cunningham Falls, Montana, Grace is the clumsiest person ever born. To prepare for the trip, she is taking lessons at a local ski resort. She just prays that they have an ambulance on standby.

Sexy hotelier Jacob Baxter is ready to play ski instructor, but he quickly discovers that the best place on the mountain for Grace is in the lodge with a hot toddy. Her sense of humor and easy laugh quickly pull him in, and soon he’s determined to help her get off the bunny slope for a fun vacation with her friends. He just didn’t expect their steamy chemistry to trigger an avalanche of desire straight to his heart.

What worked for me (and what didn’t): I haven’t read any other Kristen Proby books and so I didn’t know anything about the series going in. There is obviously a group of friends, some of whom are in wedding planning mode but their involvement in the story was fairly short-lived and it was easy to understand what was going on without having read any of the earlier books in the series.