You Slay Me

Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 1

By: Katie MacAlister

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

You Slay Me is a lusty romance novel with amusing supernatural undercurrents. When courier Aisling Grey is dispatched to Paris to deliver a priceless dragon statue to a rich and eccentric female collector, she finds the intended recipient the apparent victim of a demonic ritual. And that's just the beginning of Aisling's discoveries.

Spend some more time with Aisling Grey.

©2004 Martha Arends (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"Wickedly witty." ( Booklist)

I can't with narrator

I've read this series before and love Katie MacAlister, but the narration is terrible. She tries to do accents and they end up being terrible and distracting. Plus her breathing and mouth noises, I can do without.

I recommend reading the books yourself. They are great!

I could hear the narrator swallowing.

I really, really want to finish this book, but the narrator's swallowing and weird moist sounding speech was too much. She was great at all the voices. I loved that part. But she makes Aisling sound like she's in her 40's or 50's. It's really distracting and I keep losing focus. Super bummed.
The story is good, I think. I barely got through the mating scene before having to stop listening. It was like having my old neighbor recount her marriage night. Hard pass on doing that again.

Wow! I now have a new favorite author!

I can't believe that I had this story for two months before I listened to it! Oh my! It is not only funny, but so sensual it will leave your mouth open envisioning your own hot dragon-man fantasy!

I enjoyed Barbara Rosenblat's narration of the book. She has an extensive vocal range that lets her differentiate each character. I cannot wait to start on Book 2.

ugh.. disappointed

I love this series and the woman reading it sounds like she is eating through the entire thing. It was distracting and disappointing. I was very sad to see this done to such a wonderful novel.

Love the story

I love the story but the narrator, I like her voices for the characters but it sounds like she's chewing gum and it makes it so hard to focus on the story.

MacAlister and Rosenblatt, hooray!

This was one of my first ever paranormal romances, and I was so lucky that it was this book with this narrator. Both MacAlister's writing style and Rosenblatt's narration appeal to me. I can see how some would NOT enjoy Rosenblatt's work on this, but for me it made the story better. The quick, clueless wit of Aisling Grey, her Demon Dog, and the Dragon who is stalking-her-without-seeming-to are unique and well-spoken characters with distinctly different voices, thanks to Rosenblatt's talent. I didn't like her whining (even though it was apropos to the character), but enjoyed the constant pep-talks that Grey gives herself, and the story development. I could not tell where the story was going, and enjoyed the ride.
I will seek the subsequent books!

Good

good story but wasn't impressed by the reader. a lot of the characters sounded the same.

Funny and Charming

I really enjoyed this audiobook! I couldn't stop listening once I started. The narrator was excellent! Katie MacAlister writes one hell of a story. Jim the Demon made me laugh out loud! The romance between Aisling and Drake was super hot! No pun intented!

Good Book, Distracting Noise

I read this book in paperback years ago and thought it might be nice to revisit it in audio form. It is a funny, witty and very entertaining story. My biggest problem is the narrator. It is not the voices she does, because they are very good. My problem is the swallowing sound that she makes constantly. I usually listen to audio books on my Ipod. The sound is quite distracting and a little disgusting to listen to it through earphones. I'm not really happy about having to write this review, but I just want anyone else who would purchase this to be aware that the noise occurs ALOT. Other than that, I have no problem with the story or narrator.

slobbering & smacking

I think the story would have been good, If wasn't for the fact that the narrator was lip smacking and swallowing constantly !!GROSS!! I mean Come on can't you edit that out!!