Eyes Like Those

A Seven Shores Romance

By: Melissa Brayden

Narrated by: Melissa Sternenberg

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's Summary

When it comes to love, no one is in charge.

Isabel Chase is reeling. She's just been offered her dream job as a staff writer on one of the hottest shows on television and quickly trades in the comfort of New England for sun, sand, and everything Hollywood. While stoked for what could be her big break, the show's stunning executive producer has her head spinning and her feelings swirling.

Taylor Andrews is at the top of her career. Everything she touches turns to gold and the studios know it. Just when she's on track for total television domination, Isabel Chase arrives in her office and slowly turns her world upside down. Isabel is intelligent, sarcastic, and dammit, downright beautiful. Unfortunately, she's the one person that can take away all Taylor has worked for.

Will Isabel's success lead to Taylor's downfall? Or perhaps Isabel is all she needs....

A Seven Shores Romance

©2017 Melissa Brayden (P)2017 Bold Strokes Books Inc

Good, but not my fav Brayden book

Isabel and Taylor were good characters and very likeable. the narrator did a great job bringing the characters to life . the thing that bothered me with this book was how long the ex-girlfriend caused drama for everybody.. I am looking forward to the follow up books from the series.

Struggled to finish

There were two main things with this story that made it hard for me to connect with it and enjoy:

Lack of diversity. The story takes place in LA and yet POC seem to be non existent but every type of thin white woman you can think of exists in this story. Also, can someone point me in the direction of an apartment complex made up almost exclusively of queer women? Thanks.

Laissez-faire treatment of mental illness. The main character has a major anxiety disorder to the point of having crippling anxiety attacks and the possibility of therapy isn't mentioned until the 11th hour of the story. It felt as if she turned the story into her editor and they told her she needed to mention it so she tacked it onto the end.

There were other things (Isabel isn't as funny as she thinks she is/she's kinda a Mary Sue) I didn't mesh with either.

Not for me.

top performance

the best part of this audible is the narrator. incredible! captured the personalities very well

Melissa is the best

Melissa is one of my favorite authors! Her books never let me down this one included! The audible version is perfect the reader does a great job! This in my opinion is the start of a fantastic new series for Melissa

Too predictable.

After listening to Kiss the Girl by this Author and enjoying it I thought I would give this one a try. I was disappointed that it was practically the same story, just the names and places changed. The writing seemed to be more elementary. Narration was fine.

Excellent Audio!

I loved Eyes Like Those .Excellent story. For once I hadn't read the book first. So I didn't know the story. Classic question whether to get involved with someone you work with. Excellently narrated by Melissa Sternenberg.

Kept waiting for it to get good

I loved Strawberry Summers and Waiting in the Wings. This story never really picked up. It was so hard to listen to.

Sweet and easylistning

MB takes us through a storyline which is likely to lead to a particular positive outcome. Her characters are sweet and lighthearted - easy to follow. Make you smile 😉

Another great one.

I am so excited to find put what happens with this group. Great start. Narrator was amazing!!!!! Some moments were laugh out loud, and she helped make those moments too.

Eh, not worth the listen

The story moved along too quickly in the beginning and the characters were not very interesting or dynamic. The performance would have been okay except the narrator mispronounced words over and over. Every single time, she pronounced "wondering/ wonder" as "wandering/ wander" and it drove me nuts.

Couldn’t listen to it.

I have to say that I couldn’t listen to this book. The narrator seemed as if she was speed reading it.

I usually relax whilst listen to audio books but I found this just irritating.

A waste of a credit.

Could have been more

I have rated this four, but in reality, the story didn't grip me the way other Melissa Brayden stories did. Although, the narration from Melissa Sternenberg was very good. I think the reason I struggled with this one was because it was based on Hollywood, from the angle of writers and successful producers. The conflict, in the form of a jaded ex-lover also felt a bit one sided and it felt shallow of Tyler Andrews not to just confront her nemesis. There are reasons why she doesn't, but they didn't paint Tyler in a good light, ethically. Maybe I'm struggling to say why I didn't like this story so much, but I guess it was - the setting, I'm not a big Hollywood fan. But also, the unit of friends around Isabel Chase which are normally charming in Brayden novels, for whatever reason, seemed a bit forced, in that they became passionate friends too instantly and without this being earned. In addition, Chase suffers from anxiety, and I see this portrayed well, but as someone who suffers from GAD, Chase's anxiety was a bit too convenient and not as crippling as it is in reality; Chase didn't come across as the broken heroine who needed help, but rather someone with a minor problem which caused issues from time to time, meaning I didn't feel sympathy for her - she seemed to have everything she needed and was getting everything she wanted.

I realise this is a new set of characters Melissa is developing for future novels (and audiobooks). I hope I can somehow engage with this new Californian crew.

A very easy listen

I listen to audio books a lot and Melissa Brayden is a perfect storyteller for me

Worth a listen

Loved the story and the narrator adds something to it the way she reads it. I say definitely worth a try.

First encounter

This is my first encounter with Melissa Brayden and I enjoyed it. It was a light read and very well suited to audio. I will be buying the other books in this series.

wow.

I really enjoyed this book, the narrator really brought the characters to life. I would highly recommend this book.

Not Melissa's best

I was a little disappointed with this book after being so excited when it released on Audible. The Soho Loft series was excellent and I expected more of the same. I found the romance a little rushed which made it hard to believe and connect with. Because of this the romantic scenes felt too mushy and dare I say it a bit too Mills & Boon for me. Sorry Melissa.

Narration was good, despite me hoping desperately for narration by Felicity Munroe, who manages to make you get lost in a book.

I'll buy the next in the series in the hope that her previous style of writing, which has kept me gripped and made me listen to her books again and again, returns.