The Blind Date

Love Unexpected

By: Delaney Diamond

Narrated by: Michael Pauley

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

One night changes everything... again.

Years ago, when Ryan Stewart saw Shawna Ferguson, it was love at first sight. Unfortunately, he wasn't a free man, and his deception caused him to lose her after a weekend that changed his life.

When Shawna's sister and brother-in-law set her up on a blind date, she has no idea it's with Ryan, with whom she'd spent a weekend she wishes she could forget. She reluctantly agrees to finish the date with him, but doing so leaves her vulnerable to his charms and the heat he ignited in her that very first night.

©2013 Delaney Diamond (P)2015 Delaney Diamond

Awesome story of 2nd chance LOVE.. bwwm

This series of stories has captured me.. Great writing & exciting action.. I felt danger of them getting caught in the bathroom at the party.. (totally naughty & bad judgement of them) but, this story will keep the reader on their toes.. KUDOS Us chocolate girls deserve excitement in their lives also.. Thank you.. MORE please..

it's pretty good

Pretty good it got to the point. Narrator was really good put a lot of emotion in the story!

awesome! I love the flow and feel of the narrator

great narration. will continue to support both the author and narrator. I really enjoyed this story.

Cute Second chance story

This was a cute second chance romance. Although it dealt with cheating in the beginning, it also dealt with bad timing and forgiveness. The audio book was easy to listen to, the narrator's voice relayed the scenes very well.

GREAT STORY

I like the way the plot was revealed. The characters were believable and the scenario was believable for their ages. You learn with age to just "man up" at all times...it will make your life so much simpler.

Not Bad

Narrator sounds like computerized voice but when playing character he did a good job. Would like to have a more erotica love scenes. overall not bad. happily ever after story.

multifaceted heroine

Characters were believable and dialog flowed. Shauna's response to being wronged by Ryan was appropriate and fair. He actually got off easy for such a crude, selfish act. I enjoyed the fact that race was mentioned but not center stage. This book was about deceit, hurt, redemption and love. Delaney is an effective storyteller.

old love and new love

I love it. I enjoy meeting at restaurant. they went back in time to the first time they met.

Passionate Story

The lovers are swept away in their passion. Beautifully written. My second Delaney Diamond book and I'm a fan. Looking forward to the next book. The narrator is wonderful. Love his voice.

Brilliant Story

Where does The Blind Date rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It is one of the better ones. 7 out of 10.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I loved Ryan, liked his tenacity in going after Shawna. I really liked him, I could have fallen for him myself!Shawna was totally swept off her feet by Ryan. The characters were great!

What aspect of Michael Pauley’s performance would you have changed?

The audio book was good, listening forces you to take in every word in the story. I have a bad habit of speed reading and scanning text, therefore missing some words. This allowed you to take note of all aspects of the story. I didn’t like the narrator’s voice, he sounded corny in parts and the inflection in his voice was wrong in parts, so this spoilt it a little for me. He made the dialogue and tone come across wrong. Would have liked to have a man and woman narrating, would have made it more realistic. Hearing a white man, try and perform the black voices did not come across well either. Also the female voices did not come across well. I liked his French accent, although I did not know what he was saying! He narrated the sex scenes very well.

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

She's got to be mine...

Any additional comments?

A blind date is a brilliant book! I really liked it! It was funny and passionate. I read the book before I listened to it on the audio book. The thing I didn’t like was the constant back and forth to 6 years ago. I found this a little irritating as I was trying to get into the story at the restaurant (present day) and the story kept going back and forth. Would have preferred it to be a prologue or a flash back within the story. The first sex scene was a flash back, would have preferred that scene to be in real time. It meant you did not capture the first moments between them. After all the sexual tension at the restaurant and then when they were out dancing, would have liked to have been there when the fireworks went off. Felt I missed out there!Other than that, I loved the story. Was surprised the story did not touch on the race issues that always come up in interracial relationships, this would have made it a little more real and only natural when two totally different cultures come together. I wished it could have been longer. Wanted to know more about what happened with them, seemed too short.I liked the feature to skip back 30 seconds, this was useful when I was rudely interrupted while listening.