The Ladies Most...

The Collected Works: The Lady Most Likely/The Lady Most Willing

By: Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Susan Duerden

Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Three best-selling authors. Two delightful novels. One terrific collection! From Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton series, now streaming on Netflix - writing along with close friends and popular authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway - comes The Ladies Most...: a duo of cleverly crafted novels, The Lady Most Likely and The Lady Most Willing, together for the first time.

The Lady Most Likely

Hugh Dunne, the earl of Briarly, needs a wife, so his sister hands him a list of delectable damsels and promises to invite them - and a few other gentlemen - to her country house for what is sure to be the event of the season. Hugh will have time to woo whichever lady he most desires. Unless someone else snatches her first.

The invitation list includes:

• The always outspoken Miss Katherine Peyton
• The impossibly beautiful (and painfully shy) Miss Gwendolyn Passmore
• The widowed Lady Georgina Sorrell (who has no plans to marry, ever)
• And your hostess, Lady Carolyn Finchley, an irrepressible matchmaker with romantic plans for every last one of them - especially the lady most likely to marry an eligible earl.

The Lady Most Willing

Taran Ferguson, laird of his clan, is determined that his ancient (if not so honorable) birthright be secured before he dies. When both his nephews refuse to wed, he takes matters into his own hands, raiding an English lord’s Christmas ball and making off with four lovely potential brides (and one very irate duke). When his nephews, the Comte de Rocheforte and the earl of Oakley, arrive for their annual holiday visit, they are drawn into a matchmaking party of sorts. Among the unwitting guests are:

• Miss Fiona Chisholm, a beauty with a scandalous past
• Lady Cecily Tarleton, a lovely heiress - but she’s English
• Miss Catriona Burns, a lady with no name or fortune, so clearly someone made a mistake!

As the snow piles up outside the highland castle and the guests are forced to pass the time together, the initial dismay turns to unanticipated attractions and then irresistible passions - and indeed, there might be one lady most willing to marry a Scottish lord.

©2021 Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Narration Distraction !

I didn’t care for the narration in the last book : thought it was a distraction. But thought the books story line was good.

Relatively Disappointing

I usually enjoy Julia Quinn novels, but I have to say these two books were probably my least favorite. You don’t really have time to form a connection to the characters as she jumps from one couple to the next. And the second novel (the one with the really bad Scottish accents) well… I could hardly bear to listen to her scratchy, overly dramatic male accents. The English accents were… bad. But not as bad as the Scottish.

The ladies most... unlike one another.

The narration really makes an audiobook, and Rosalyn Landor was perfection as usual with the first book. On point, poised, kind, empathetic, making you feel.

Then the second book started. And boy, I thought a joke was being played on me. It's not just that the Scottish accents are VERY thick, and a bit over the top. It's not just that the male and female accents are highly stereotypical and it clearly seems she wrote down the 20 different characters and wanted them all to be so unique they all only had one type of expression.
It's that every single sentence has the same inflection. Is it a question? Is someone happy? Is it just narration? Who knows, it all sounds the same.

I am sorry to say I'll have to stop and go to buy this book in a readable format, but that type of narration is not just one I don't enjoy, it is distracting to such a level, I already have no clue what happened, and I am only a few chapters into this second book.

I can't even get into the content really, since again, I haven't read much of it yet, but the narration is so utterly irritating.

Book 1: Lots happening, and therefore not much time to be spent with each couple, but fun in exactly that way, seeing lots of overlap.

Amazing stories!

Dope stories, love reading as each author played out the love story of thier couple in thier own destinct voice subtlety, so that it didnt ruin the flow or cohesion. BEAUTIFUL!!Rosalyn Landor performance was steller, per ususal.
The other narrators left much to be desired

Did not do the 2nd book

Performance: Rosalyn Landor is my FAVORITE female performer. However the narrator for the 2nd book hurt my ears so bad after only a few lines I had to turn it off. Unfortunately that is why I only gave 3 stars. If I were rating just the 1st book it would be a 5 for performance, 4 for story and a 4 all over.

2nd narrator was awful

I loved listening to the first book and enjoyed the story, BUT the second book I could NOT stand the narrator. It was so obnoxious that I couldn’t even listen past 10 min. I’ll just buy the book and read it instead.

Lighthearted fun!

After slogging through a series of books that were heavy and tragic, full of secrets and misunderstandings, this is just what I needed. Very entertaining!

thoroughly enjoyed

I really like both narratives and how it felt like a series of mini stories within each book. I also Loved the second narrator!

Don't be scared of my others review of narrator!

Fun read, was a bit nervous to listen to after narrator reviews, but narrator was just fine. I think the issue is almost all of Julia Quinn's books are narrated by Rosalyn Landor and let's face it, t's hard to compete with her, but Susan Duerden did a good, entertaining job. I had actually already listened to a few books with her narrating, so I suppose I was already familiar with her and perhaps more accepting, but please don't let the narration scare you off!

pretty predictable

Not one of her better efforts the storyline was pretty predictable. Felt like I was watching seven brides for seven Brothers.