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)

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!!

This book could have been a contender

This book might have been great but I had to grit my teeth to finish it. The narrator's swallowing and smacking and general unedited salivating was more attention grabbing than her scratchy old lady voice. It was like having a great song come on the radio and trying to listen to it through static and the bleed over of another station. Depressing. I want to know what happens next but listening to all that slobber makes me want to clean my ears with an ice pick

Too Much Background Noise

My biggest struggle with this was the background noises! Pages turning, the wet mouth sounds the narrator kept making. I could barely focus on the story.

juicy mouth sounds

I love the book, and honestly, the narrator's performance was great. My only complaint would be the juicy smacking and swallowing right in my ear. I love asmr, but I try my best to steer clear of mouth sounds. Just makes me cringe and I couldn't get lost in the story like I needed to.

book one is incredible

the story was wonderful; full of sadness, comedy, romance, action, and passion. The only complaint I would have would be the performance. There were several times within the book reading that the reader would make chewing, sucking, or other strange noises with her mouth. It was very distracting.

sizzle! Just have to warm up to the narrator

great story! Very hot, although the heroine seems so distracted by events when she should really be more distracted by Drake.
I had a hard time getting used to the narrator's voice. She sounds like a 60 yo smoker that partied hard. But the French accents are done well. Also, I could her the narrator breathing and smacking and gulping at times , so maybe the producers need to do a better job on editing? It was very distracting from a very enjoyable story.

A interesting take on demons and dragons.

Where does You Slay Me rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Middle of the road. It's not the best, but it's not the worst either.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jim, by far his voice and dialogue was the best.

Which scene was your favorite?

Jim, Aisling, and Reed attempted to steal back the aquamanile.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Demon dogs, dragon thieves, and a Guardian who has no idea what she's doing.

Barbara Rosenblat is terrible

I love this series. Have read the books many times but it’s been awhile. As I was going on a road trip, I decided to buy several Katie MacAlister Dragon books on audio. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize how awful Barbara Rosenblat is. Amazing considering she has voiced over 600 books. Alas, she just is NOT the voice of Aisling. While Barbara has good enunciation, she also has a smokers voice and terrible vocal fry. In addition, she is very breathy and you can hear the spit in her mouth swishing around before she swallows, which just grosses me out. I have about 7.5 hours left in the first book I bought :-/

sexy crazy funny

if it could happen it did. a book you can't stop reading. you will need to finish the whole series.