The Seduction of Elliot McBride

By: Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

USA Today best-selling author and RITA Award winner Jennifer Ashley pens heart-pounding tales that keep listeners spellbound with torrid romance and finely crafted intrigue.

Juliana St. John faces the ultimate mortification when she's stood up on her wedding day. But then fate places her face-to-face with her first love, Elliot McBride, and she finds herself falling for her half-mad former paramour.

©2012 Jennifer Ashley (P)2013 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Ashley simply has a gift with her storytelling.... " ( Night Owl Reviews)

Loved this one! One of my faves of the series!

This is one of the best books of the series. I love the take charge attitude of the heroine and the way she takes care of and stands by her man, no matter what. Definitely recommend this one!

Loved it!!!!

This is the best series ever... love the narration.. the characters suck you in and you become part of them... can't get enough....

A warrior of old, suffering PTSD, trying to love

Their wedding unconventional, their new home an aging wreck, who they were, gone by the intervening years.
Yet, their childhood love has lasted and even buoyed in time of trouble.
They just have to learn to trust, each other.

I love this series.

I love a damaged man. And Elliot was a bit broken. He was reminiscent of Ian in the first book. Elliot was captured and held prisoner/slave to and Afghanny tribe, while living in India. He was dealing with many demons that would cause him to black out as he would slip into his memories.

I also love how both Julianne and Elliot were secretly in love with each other for many years without the other knowing. It is refreshing when a couple who has been yearning for each other gets to have their HEA. And even though we only visit those yearning years through their memories. It was still satisfying. I hope there is updates about these two, because I want to see him as a father to their children.

In line for my favorite!

Who knew PTSD could be so sexy?! Okay, so not really. But imagine with me Chris Hemsworth as a Scottish soldier in India; captured and tortured, finally free to pursue health and happiness in Scotland. A beautiful lass that he loved even as a youth waiting at the altar.
Great book. Goes to a darker place sexually & sensually than any of Ashley's other books. As always, great characters & perfect narration.

Take it for what it is.

Love the MacKenzie brothers series. "The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie" is possible my favorite book in the light romance genre. This is something of a "spin off" of that series. There were things I liked. Won't attempt to spell the names of the Indian members of the household (the downside of audio books), but the manservant was a truly dear character.

I liked that the relationship moved quickly. The two main characters were childhood friends and more, so there wasn't a lot of hem-hawing around about whether they had feelings for each other. There was some behavior that didn't add up, even considering Mr. McBride's fragile mental health. Won't reveal more, but will just say its always a little unsatisfying when this kind of book tries to tackle heavy subjects like the long term affects of torture. Either write romance novels or write a serious work of fiction, don't try to combine them.

Angela Dawe's style is clear and easy to understand. If, like me you are uncomfortable with her fragmented style of speech, increasing the narrator speed to 1.5 does the trick.

I like Ms. Ashley's other books in my library, but not this one so much.

Good but not my favorite in the series

I enjoy this series because it has many books in it. I enjoy the characters from book to book. This one was dark which might be the reason I was not drawn to it as I am to the others in the series.

My heart goes out to Elliot.

What a story. As with the entire series, they all seem to try and overcome something very difficult. Fantastic book & series. Angela Dawe still does a wonderful job at narrating.

It’s ok but....

The story was good. The narrator not so good. I wish her accents were better.

My second favorite characters after Ian and Beth

If you could sum up The Seduction of Elliot McBride in three words, what would they be?

Great love story

Who was your favorite character and why?

Elliot cause he worked so hard to overcome his PTSD caused by him being held captive for almost a year

What about Angela Dawe’s performance did you like?

How she did such a wonder job of bringing the story and characters to life for me

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes I would have loved to listen to it all in one sitting as I was so engrossed in the story

Any additional comments?

I know some reviews did not like the story but this is my second favorite of this series right behind Ian & Beth. I loved how Elliot loved Juliana so much she was his reason for surviving his horrible ordeal. While they may not come out and call it PTSD back then that is what Elliot had to learn to deal with. I loved how Juliana and his family that Elliot gathered to him helped him work to deal with his PTSD