To Distraction

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Stephanie Laurens' New York Times best-selling Regency romances delight her countless fans. Visions of elegance and finery abound in her tales of temptation and unbridled passion.

The distinguished veterans of the Bastion Club represent England's finest eligible bachelors. Among them is Deverell, a strapping man about to meet his match in the alluring Phoebe Malleson.

©2006 Savdek Management Proprietory Ltd. (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Narrator needs to breath, full stop means pause

I love Stephanie Laurens. I did not love this narrator. I sincerely hope they were not told it has to be xyz length, because they read well with the exception that the running together of sentences and paragraphs spoilt the flow and detracted from the overall process.
i actually got out my hard copy to see what was going on.

Need better voices for characters

The male voices should sound like males not females. Character voices should vary to distinguish them from one another, otherwise great book.

unconventional brides also have challenges

Date: 1816 May
Chronology: set immediately after A FINE PASSION, before Beyond Seduction. This doesn’t match Laurens’ chronological list, but the story starts when Deverell says he’s come back from Warnefleet’s wedding.
Deverell, now Viscount Paignton, seeks advice from his Aunt Audrey who refers him to her goddaughter Phoebe Malleson as the best candidate for his wife. Audrey advises he’ll have to convince Phoebe to marry him since she’s decided not to marry at all. When he meets Phoebe he agrees, but the challenges are greater than he originally expected.
Malcolm Sinclair aka Thomas Glendower first appears in this book and later shows up in The Taste of Innocence with the diary, then has his own story in Loving Rose.
Tanner still mispronounces much. The Brit accent does not excuse or cover it up. Sad.

Not As Good As Others

Plot just took too long to get there. I just kept speeding it up to get to the end...just not my favorite.

Performance is horrible

What made the experience of listening to To Distraction the most enjoyable?

The story

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jill Tanner?

Simon Prebble

Any additional comments?

Jill Tanner is the most boring narrator of all! I've only bought the audiobook to follow the story. Sometimes she is the reason to not purchase the audiobook and read the paper back myself instead