Rivals

Rutshire Chronicles, Book 2

De: Jilly Cooper

Narrado por: Sherry Baines

Into the cutthroat world of Corinium television comes mega-star Declan O'Hara. Declan soon realises that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous, domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme.

As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered and sex raises its head at almost every throw....

©1988 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

interesting from the former colonies

I finally storyline interesting relatively engaging the characters holy on sympathetic pretty miserable generally and not much to like about any of them honestly which I think was the point. for the end I was actually yelling at Declan because he was so ridiculous and Patrick so arrogant I never understood a portion when it seemed Declan was fine with baz and tag but not Rupert. understanding that there was significant work to describe whatever was wearing setting the scene was fantastic it really put you in these towns in Great Britain and allowed you to realize that it was the 80s and needs epidemic was also covered from a heterosexual point of view
new money versus old. creators vs owners rich versus poor. I did find it some hot lines were never wrapped up or never explained which was kind of annoying but all I was pretty impressed

Entertaining, great narrator

I read another review that described this book as a soap opera and that sums it up well. It’s a steamy, ridiculous story with ridiculously over the top characters. But it’s fun and interesting and the narrator is fantastic. It could have been shorter, but the ride was enjoyable all the way through regardless. I would have liked more details about the ending, rather than just the lead up to it.

Roller coaster ride of romance

Wow !!! What a spellbinding story, filled with fun interesting characters and scandalous behaviors— couldn’t stop listening to the story!

Incredible Performance

I loved this audiobook! I decided to get it after loving the show and was so impressed by the performance and reading of Tennant!

A twist at every turn…

I enjoyed all of it. I started out routing for one side, ended up rooting for the other. Can’t wait for the show.

Kept me engaged

Although this is book 2 in the series I started here after watching the first season of the show on Hulu. The books version (as always) was much more engaging and detailed. Didn't want it to end!!

Had to read after watching the tv series

Loved this book and all the dynamic characters. It was a long read but it kept me entertained from beginning to end. The narrator was excellent.

Great story telling!

Sherry has a wonderful voice for audio books. I enjoyed listening. Jilly Cooper is such a great author and story teller and I think Sherry paid homage to that.

For future reference, Moet is pronounced with a hard ‘t’ and not Moay! It’s derivative is Dutch not French!

sharp, amusing and surprisingly romantic story.

Great characters... bordering on iconic. witty dialogue. Great 80s vibe...loved every minute of it.
yet, the narration was too slow. heard the whole book at 1.2 speed which i would never do- but here was perfect .

Never before

I don’t read romance novels but I got this audio book free. I loved it. Character development is superb and the plot immersive. I will certainly read Jilly Cooper again!