All I Need Is You

An Over the Edge Novel

De: Julia London

Narrado por: Renee Raudman

When a wedding planner’s first gig teams her up with a sexy stuntman, will she crash and burn…or be airlifted to love?

Behind Eli McCain’s Texas drawl lies an extreme sports lover, a former Hollywood stuntman…and a broken heart. Left at the altar a year ago, he’s not happy when Thrillseekers Anonymous, the extreme sports club he cofounded, gets into the celebrity wedding business. Especially since Marnie Banks, the wedding coordinator with the stunning smile and sexy curves, never stops talking.

Marnie, meanwhile, hopes planning an A-list celebrity wedding will be her ticket to success. If only her glamorous clients weren’t constantly throwing outrageous demands at her. And if only Eli wasn’t so guarded - and so jaw-droppingly handsome.

But when the wedding turns from extreme to extremely disastrous, Eli and Marnie must work together against the elements, their bickering clients, and their own smoldering attraction to save the day. Will the sparks flying between them ignite into something real and passionate…or will they both end up burned?

©2013 Julia London (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Fun and touching

Loved listening to this story it was not predictable so it you wanted to keep going to see what happened next.

great Lite read!

if you're looking for a Sweet Love Story without too much depth or complex detail, this is a really great book to just relax and enjoy.

Light and realistically contemporary

Would you listen to All I Need Is You again? Why?

I'd listen again because the characters were so darn like able and because I love Renee Raudman's narration.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Marnie. Like all of us, she's had tough times. Not traumatic but challenging. But she still believes in people and opportunities and she's not going to give up on her dream of being a wedding planner because the situation isn't made-to-order.

What does Renee Raudman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Renee is the bomb with vocal characterization.

Any additional comments?

I'm looking forward to the next installment of Thrillseekers.

Simple romance.

I rarely go for straight contemporary romance but I happened to get this book for next to nothing and it sounded fun. I enjoyed it, it was a typical romance with the buildup and a misunderstanding at the end that needs to be fixed. I was hoping for more of an adventure and that Marnie to have gone on the trip up the mountain and have spent more time there. I was hoping for more adventuring from a story that the main characters were extreme sport experts. Overall it was typical but engaging romance, 3.5 overall rating. Narrator was good.

Like the story. Hate the male voice

I really liked the story, but I couldn’t get past the fact that the male lead sounded like an old timer in a mining town.

good story

I would have given this book 4 stars, but the narrator sounds like my grandma.

Romantic but....

I’m a Julia London fan, but I’m new to her contemporary work. My main problem is that many of Marnie’s antics—which are supposed to be the source of humor—are really the outcome of her having no backbone and being a wuss. There’s nothing funny about that. Fortunately, this only shows up in her work as a wedding planner and not in her love life. I just wish they were funny instead of evidence of a woman who needs to be in an assertiveness training program. So there are some seriously irritating parts and parts that could’ve been fixed or prevented earlier. Nonetheless, the romance that the author manages to create, especially the last hour or 30 minutes of the book are so enchanting that it erases the irritating parts that occurred earlier. So it might be worth buying at the end. The narrator is perfect in trying to make things funny, but she does a poor job when having to do two foreign accents. They were almost offensive. But overall, I really enjoyed the narrator b/c the foreign accents were such a small part of the book. So I don't know whether to recommend or not. Though I can say that I don't regret having purchased this book, but I'm also not rushing to purchase more of her contemporary work nor running from the possibility in the future. So.....

Nice listen.

I guess this was a reissue from books past and this is the first in the series according to its preface at the beginning of the audio. It was a cute fun story. Entertaining with some comical parts. Very sweet as well. The price is good for the length so I enjoyed it. Narration was okay as well. Worth the price.

Humerous and Romantic

Eli and his pals are the owners of a very successful company that provides extreme adventures for those who can afford it. When one of their best clients, an A-list actor, wants to include a wedding in his adventure, they find themselves in need of a wedding planner. Marnie wants to jumpstart her career as a wedding planner, so she is all game when the Thrillseekers Anonymous guys want her to "audition" for the job. This opening for Julia London's Wedding Survivor is both improbable and highly entertaining. On the one hand, it seems like no self-respecting professional would do some of the bits that the men ask of her (it's nothing lewd or licentious, just nothing practical, either). But this is fiction, so one suspends disbelief (because it IS entertaining) and moves on (but this is also the reason for the 4-stars versus 5).

Once you get past the premise, the execution of the story is both hilarious and heartwarming. Marnie is, at first, awestruck by her celebrity client, but she soon realizes that she is working with the client from hell. Eli, who never wanted to deal in the wedding business in the first place, is overseeing the job, and the two have an immediate rapport. Marnie, at times, puts up with just way too much crap from her client, but her interactions with Eli are fun and funny. It's Eli, however, who makes the book for me.

Eli is protecting his heart, which was broken a year ago when his fiancee dumped him just before their wedding day. We see him struggle with his emotions, feel vulnerable to love, screw up the whole relationship, and beautifully--and heartwarmingly--redeem himself in the end. It's the glimpses into Eli's thoughts and emotions, and his journey toward love, that made me love this hero and this book.

Renee Raudman did a good job with the narration once you got used to her Texas accent.

Good Read.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked this story because of the humor between the characters.

Any additional comments?

This was a good typical love story. I liked the banter between the characters and I caught myself giggling a time or two. However the story is pretty predictable for a love story and the Marnie character was a little annoying at times. Also, I am not a big fan of narrators who deepen their voices to sound like the men because their voices come off as silly.