With This Ring

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

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

Twist and turns!

This was my first time reading a book by Amanda Quick and was very enjoyable. Romance, murder and intrigue woven together into an interesting plot beautifully read by the spectacular Barbara Rosenblat who has an amazing voice. Her range of accents and tones has to be listened to to be believed. She reads the male voices so wonderfully that if I didn't know better I'd swear I was actually listening to a male reader and, in this book, her cockney 'ladies maid' pretending to be French had me in giggles. Highly recommended!

Good ..... but not great!

This book isn't your ordinary handsome rogue meets lady blah blah, they have a few problems then live happily ever after. No, this has a good plot that will keep you guessing right til the end. Good narrator too.

I've heard better Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz) books but I like her work so will continue to download anything available.

Not clean

I hate it when these dirty books get into my recommendations and then I am forced to quit the book when I realize that they are inappropriate. Wish there was a content rating system.

I liked the leading couple

This book was not typical in the sense that the hero & heroine were more mature. I liked that! Particularly the sarcastic humor related to being the doddering ages of 39 and 29 respectively. Additionally, the hero had some lovable characteristics (any man who talks to his dog is OK with me :-) and the heroine was not a simpering miss. As always Quick infuses humor which I enjoy. And the intrigue kept me going. I thought I guessed the ending a few times but the twists and turns threw me off enough to make me keep listening. It was worth my credit.

Enthralling blend of mystery and romance

This was wonderful. I couldn't tell at first if this was going to be mainly a regency romance, or a slightly melodramatic mystery revolving around murder and mysterious artifacts. In fact it was the perfect blend if both, carried off marvelously by two very strong lead characters.

It seemed much more true to life than many other regency romances I've read lately, the characters are practical and forthright about the marriage market, and not overly melodramatic in they're emotion or affections (the advantage of them being older and both previously widowed, and especially contrasted with the young Arabella and Pearson), but also included just enough passion too.

It was quite an adventure, everything from poison and kidnapping, prostitutes and blackmail, secret passages and dark plots... It was quite a murky business, and I really hadn't figured out much of the puzzle until the climactic confrontation at the end, though funnily the one thing I had gotten right early on was the location of the rings.

Wonderfully narrated, enthralling story. Highly recommended.

Very Enjoyable

Since Barbara Rosenblat, one of my favorite narrators was narrating the book, Leo and Beatrice reminded me of Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson (Crocodile on the Sandbank, etc.).

I really enjoy listening to this book and getting a good chuckle of how Leo and Beatrice interacted with each other. It is also one of my favorite books by Amanda Quick.

A narrator is important

This is typical Amanda Quick quality but the narrator kept putting me to sleep so I had to keep going back and re-listening to the parts I slept through. For that reason I had to give it a lower review.

Charming and entertaing

Briefly - lLight , entertaining story of an older style. The narrator was a pleasure to listen to. I recommend it for easy listening.

Great Story and Narration

This is definitely worth a credit for story and narration. Lots of humor and mystery. You can't go wrong with Amanda Quick.

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.

entertaining

funny, entertaining.....
historical romance where men have sentiments and women brain cells....
hours well spent

An Elixir of Manly Vigor

Excellent narration gives the wow factor to this cornucopia of drama and humour, encapsulated within a marvelous mystery tale. Clever plot, excellent dialogue, well written MCs breath such life and largese of spirit for the full enjoyment of my jaded palette.

As an aficionado of Georgette Heyer, find all I need to suit my tastes in this genre; we even venture inside the boudoir where Ms Heyer only inferred.

A PERFECT PICK ME UP FOR THE SOUL. RECOMMENDED