Temptation and Surrender

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Stephanie Laurens continues her bestselling Cynster series with Temptation and Surrender, the story of Jonas Tallent, brother-in-law of Lucifer Cynster, who leaves the ballrooms of London to manage his family’s estate, and his romance with lady innkeeper Emily Beauregard.

Better than others

I'm a fan of the Cynster Series. I much prefer this 1 for only 1 reason; the female orator makes the love scenes sound more romantic than scandalous.

Really good addition to the series, solid stand al

A powerful author and good narrator make for great listening experiences, well done to both as this is yet another lovely read, strong characters and interwoven sub-plots with a couple of sneaky twists.
Will read again.

So, So.

Story was good, but not all that exciting.

Jonas meets Colyton of Colyton

Date: 1825 October

Chronology: set after The Ideal Bride; before Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue.

Jonas Tallent is Phyllida’s twin and brother-in-law to Lucifer aka Alasdair Cynster. Jonas is managing The Grange and business interests in Colyton while his father is helping a widowed aunt.
Emily Ann Beauregard Colyton talks Jonas into hiring her as manager of Colyton’s Red Bells Inn. Along with her 4 siblings, Emily has moved to Colyton to escape an Uncle who has used them as free labor until she turned 25 and could assume guardianship. The town of Colyton was named after her family and there is a Colyton Treasure that they hope to find to improve their circumstances. Of course there is someone trying to steal the treasure out from under them, but this is offset by Em’s romance with Jonas, and Isobel’s with Mr Filing, the Curate.
I like the main characters, the basic storyline and the visit with Colyton’s inhabitants (see All About Love). The details of Jonas’ romance with Em didn’t work for me as it was fraught. I was also annoyed there was little proactive action taken to immediately protect and process the Colyton Treasure as there would have been with early Cynster books.

I’m not wild about Landor’s narration. At all. Her male voices took away from the narration. If she didn’t speak so softly, I couldn’t handle the higher register of her voice.

I want my Simon Prebble...

I agree that sometimes Simon Prebble can make love scenes sound like sporting events with his intensity and speed, but they are way more fun to listen to then Ms. Landor. She’s also terrible at doing men’s voices. I’m committed to going through the series without skipping any books, and I’m not sorry that I invested in this one. Her character development is fun and I don’t mind that it slows down the plot a little bit.