Sweet Talk: A Novel

Buchanan-Renard-MacKenna, Book 10

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

When FBI agent Grayson Kincaid first encounters Olivia MacKenzie, she makes quite an impression. The beautiful, tough young attorney has stumbled into the middle of an FBI sting operation and reduced it to chaos. Months of surveillance and careful planning down the drain, Kincaid’s partner is furious and lets Olivia know that she’s ticked off the wrong guy. After all, he’s FBI.

But Olivia isn’t intimidated by his partner’s bullying because she’s something even scarier...she’s IRS.

And working for the IRS is no picnic. She’s on the trail of an elaborate Ponzi scheme, one that threatens to ruin the lives of naive and unsuspecting victims, and one she has personal reasons to be angry about. But after she asks the wrong people questions, her life is suddenly endangered. She’s accustomed to looking out for others who are weak, but being vulnerable herself makes her realize she needs help. In desperation, she calls Grayson Kincaid.

Together they join forces to fight corruption, but Olivia is also fighting the immediate and intense attraction she feels for Agent Kincaid, and that may be a battle she is bound to lose.

©2012 Julie Garwood (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"As always, Ms. Garwood creates engaging characters who come alive page after page. The banter and interaction between Ellie and Max is beyond charming. Ellie is a spirited and strong heroine, and Max is charming in a stoic, gruff sort of way." ( New York Journal of Books on The Ideal Man)

"Julie Garwood creates masterpieces every time she writes a book. Indeed, she is the Rembrandt of romance novels." ( The Kansas City Star)

"Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction." ( People)

Enjoyed the story but narrator is a miss

I enjoyed another Garwood story, but the narrator really needs updated. Very stilted speech pattern. Literally stopped for seconds at a time between EVERY sentence, so it sounded very disjointed throughout. Will not listen to anything else with this narrator.

Loved the story!

I absolutely loved the story but didn’t care for the narrator. Her rhythm was hard to follow and lagged at times.

Sweet Talk, Sweet Story

As usual great characters and story, Garwood is one of my favorites. Narrator tolerable but wish there was a better one. Audiobooks I listen to completion winthin 24 hrs because I just love her books.

robot narrator

The story is amazing, but it's hard to enjoy when the narrator sounds like a robot. She is very monotone and pauses so long between each sentence. It's like she's in a race to read the sentence, and then has to stop and catch her breath before the next sentence. If I didn't love julie garwood books, I would not have sat through this one. She reads very aggressive.

Entertaining

Where does Sweet Talk: A Novel rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Good enough to buy, but not good enough to be at the top of my favorites, or in my favorites.

What did you like best about this story?

The relationship seemed very realistic, the plot not so much but the relationship could have been real.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes it kept me on the edge I couldn't figure out the ending way before it happened, which is unusual for me.

Any additional comments?

worth it.

Loved It

I've read all of her Julie Garwood's legal stories and have loved all of them. Waiting on the next so that I can download.

Singsong narration

I will avoid this narrator in the future. Her singsong reading was so distracting that I almost stopped and gave up on this book.

Great story, robotic narration

The story line and characters were great! The narrator is robotic and hard to stick with. I quit listening twice. The storyline brought me back.

fast moving

Angela Dawe did a wonderful job of pulling you instantly into the story can keeping you there through the end.

ring names of character

loved the books but readers needs to research names she calls Reagan , Reegen.