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)

Awesome

I love anything narrated by Barbara Rosenblatt. This book was a new series for me & totally out of my relm...but so addictive! !

Love it every time I listen

I've listened to this series 4 times and I'm always pulled right into the book. So entertaining! It's such a great story!

A little snark and laughter and a whole lot of fun

I like to read series because I enjoy the development of the characters and their interactions as the stories develop. I am always scouring the catalog to find my newest series. I purchased this book during the $4.95 First Book of Series sale. To my surprise I really liked this one. The writing was fun and the self talk by the main character kept me interested and was written in a style that enabled me to visualize the happenings.

I always read reviews of all the books in a series before I purchase and this series has consistent positive reviews. Always a good sign for happy listening. Did read one reviewer who had a problem with the narrator. The only reason I didn't give five stars is because she could be heard taking breathes every once in awhile. While this didn't distract from the story or her performance, it was noticeable. She gave each character a different voice and that always lends to an enjoyable listen. As a matter of fact, her voice many, many times reminded me of the character Liza Minnelli played in that movie "Rent A Cop" with Burt Reynolds. I liked it!

However, to be honest, I didn't really like how the main male character was written. I am looking forward to seeing how the auther develops Drakes character. He was a little bit irritating to me (just a little).

I have already downloaded the next book. Lets see how an uneducated guardian and a dragon get along.

loved it loved it loved it

sassy, sexy, funny, best urban fantasy with a dragon I've read in a long time.

Distracting background noise!

Honestly the story is great. The narrator is not so bad the only problem is it sounds like she's constantly chewing gum through the whole book. The audio is so clear you here every page turn every smacked lip, and swallow she makes but other than that it a good book.

Hilarious!!

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

This book rates pretty high on my list.

What other book might you compare You Slay Me to and why?

The author adds great humor to the characters and the story, which is pretty similar to the humor found in Molly Harper's stories.

What about Barbara Rosenblat’s performance did you like?

It added just the right amount of quirky likability to the main characters personality.

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

Absolutely!

Any additional comments?

The sidekick demons added great comic relief to an all together entertaining story.

Silly Story - Mouth Noise

Silly story, comic relief, dumb fun,
The mouth noises are very distracting. I almost gave up a couple times. Listening at a lower volume, faster speed; and, on car or house speaker helped. So far second book is much better.

The Good and the Bad

I feel forced to critique the story and the performance seperately, considering the fact that they competed with each other the entire time. I loved the story. I loved that the paranormal aspects did not overwhelm the story but added to it. I loved that there was plenty of suspense and heat. I loved each and every one of Aisling's sidekicks even when they were more hinderance than help. I loved Aisling's sense of humor and how she makes things harder on herself. I really enjoyed Drake, I liked how he let Aisling solve her own problems without stepping in and making things easy for her. I especially enjoyed the "other world" Ms. MacAlister created and was sorry to leave but I am looking forward to visiting again in subsequent books.

After this glowing review I need to address why I only gave this story four stars. I had a huge problem with the narration. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the narrator, the production, the direction or all three but at points I had to turn the story off and walk away I was so frustrated. During the entire performance you can hear the narrator swilling spittle around her mouth, constantly, every few seconds. It is disgusting and distracting and I could not get past it. I ended up listening to the story at such a low level to try to block that out but struggled with hearing the words. Also, the narrator read certain parts of the story like a stereotypically old-time gangster, mumble mumble out the side of the cheek 'ya see. She used this tone of voice whenever she was delivering a punch line or in times of duress and passion. In the end even though the story was amazing I just couldn't get past the narration.

It was OK.

I read this book before I listened to it on audio. Should have not done the audio. The narrator sounded like she was eating or sucking on candy the whole time, and her accents were not all that good- admittedly, how many people would know what a Welsh accent sounds like? It doesn't sound like they got to Wales via Jamaica, though.

The content of the book is a good story, well written and entertaining- I've read the whole series and enjoyed it. If they change up the narrator in the subsequent issues, it would be worth checking out, but this reader makes a good story painful. Too bad.

Dragon Scales and Puppydog Tails

I want me a Jim for the laughs and a Drake for...(well,use your imagination).Absolutely loved the story.Funny,entertaining,sexy, inventive and the narration was awesome.Can’t wait to listen to the next book in the series.Love the whole supernatural crew.