With This Ring

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

With 22 million of her books in print, and 12 consecutive New York Times best-sellers to her credit, Amanda Quick is a phenomenally popular author of historical romances. With This Ring, set in Regency England, sends a beautiful, headstrong woman on a perilous quest for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. To recover her family’s meager fortunes, Beatrice Poole must locate the antiquities stolen from her favorite uncle shortly before his highly suspicious death. Since the Forbidden Rings have a legendary history of magic and mystery, the resourceful Beatrice heads for one man who can help her find them: the darkly handsome Earl, the “Mad Monk” of Monkcrest. Fans around the world are drawn to the dashing heroes and passionate adventures in Amanda Quick’s novels, but it is her sparkling humor and lively wit that keep them coming back for more. Veteran narrator Barbara Rosenblat provides the perfect voices, conveying delicious innuendos, villainous slurs, and lively banter with ease.

©1998 Jayne A. Krentz (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC

Really?

I'm not impressed with this story. It was a little too far fetched for a novel not in the Fantasy category. Besides, there was not a lot of romance between the main characters... I felt cheated. There was no courtship between them. No butterflies in the stomach. On the other hand the narration is quite good.

I loved loved loved this book

Barbara Rosenblat is a new narrator for me but she did an outstanding job is this book. She brought the characters to life in such a way that I couldn't stop listening. Amanda Quick is an old author friend, so there's no surprise that this book is such a favorite. There was adventure, mystery, humor and best of all....romance. This will be a repeat listen for me....for sure.

Fun read

I love all the Amanda Quick books. They have a strong intellectual heroine and a strong male lead who finds women his equal.

Excellent old school historical mystery romance, with matching narration

4.5 ⭐️

This was a very refreshing palate cleanser from more recently recorded or written works in this genre.

It honestly made me think,”Whoa, did I just check out an 8-cassette audiobook from the library in 1995?!” 😆

I really enjoyed this story. It took the time to fully develop the entire mystery as well as the characters so it didn’t feel like a romance jamming in a detective storyline then rushing to the finish. It gave appropriate attention to the multiple genres it spans which was really cool.

It definitely felt a little slow at times but I didn’t mind as it fit with the time this story was written and recorded. There’s so much shallow and repetitive drivel these days, this book stands out in the robust plot line and obviously careful groundwork for many other books to follow.

The narrator was indeed slow and there were much longer pauses in general and between chapters than today’s audiobooks such that l kept wondering if the book had stopped playing.., but nope! That’s a feature, not a bug, people. I played it at 1.2 and could have done faster.

This book was also very funny and the narrator did a phenomenal job with the many voices and accents.

Marvelous

I'd forgotten how witty Amanda Quick (Jayne Krentz) was in her earlier works. I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through regency England and may revisit more of her 1990's books.