Weekends Required

A Danvers Novel

By: Sydney Landon

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Claire Walters has worked for Jason Danvers as his assistant for three years, but he’s never appreciated her as a woman - until the day she jumps out of a cake at his friend’s bachelor party....

To support her ailing mother, Claire is forced to work a second job at a party-planning company. But when her handsome boss ends up with a front-row seat to the action, she’s mortified - and he’s intrigued.

With Danvers International in the middle of an important merger, Jason asks Claire to accompany him on weekend business trips - and suddenly all her fantasies are coming true. Her outspoken best friend thinks that getting a little "executive attention" will solve everything. But Claire sees more in Jason than just sex.

Jason is determined to know how the beautiful, sexy woman in the cake could also be his mousy assistant. The more time they spend together, the more he realizes how much fun it can be to mix business with pleasure. And how much he wants to offer her a happily ever after of her own....

©2012 Sydney Landon (P)2012 Penguin Audiobooks

Read the Reviews before Buying

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

a great reader could have saved this one. The story was Ok, maybe a bit too mushy as another reviewer wrote.

What was most disappointing about Sydney Landon’s story?

the outline was good and it started out good, but somewhere in the middle, the author got
into a whoa is me story.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

the reader! It seems like this reader has an AKA, and she tried to improve her style, but her use of wouldn't and couldn't gave her away. I too had to speed up the recording as the last 50 mins where so slow. Female voices were ok,but our strong hero was made to
sound like a weak person.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Weekends Required?

this story was not for me . I do not care for female leads who think they are so strong and they have to prove they can do everything by themselves. It just gets boring to listen to the lead go on and on.

Bad Narration!

I'll never again listen to a book narrated by Allyson Ryan.
The story was *just* okay. I might feel differently about it if someone else narrated. It was hard to separate.

It was just meh....

Would you try another book from Sydney Landon and/or Allyson Ryan?

I would have to say no. I was frustrated with the story line.

What could Sydney Landon have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Given some depth to the actually story.

Have you listened to any of Allyson Ryan’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

She was ok, not the worst, not the best

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No

Any additional comments?

One thing that I cannot stand is a weak female character and a dominate jerk male character. The other thing that I cannot stand is when the characters just LOVE each oh so desperately but just cannot talk to each other about the issues that are apparently keeping them apart. Their relationship was flat, boring and felt forced. I honestly thought I was getting a cute romance story but no…it was a contrived story about miscommunications and childish behaviors.

simplistic

Having worked as the sole assistant to her super hot boss for 3 years, he doesn't notice her until she takes her hair out of its ponytail. The moment her hair is down he is instantly attracted to her. That pretty much sums up the story. Not sure about the editing - the man "beside of her" and computer may end up "in the floor" and just a sampling of the text. I couldn't finish the read.