The Lady Chosen

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Stephanie Laurens' hot-blooded romances, including her New York Times best-selling Bar Cynster series, have earned her legions of loyal devotees. The beginning of an exciting new saga, The Lady Chosen introduces the distinguished war veterans of the Bastion Club, single gentlemen not entirely committed to staying that way.

©2003 Stephanie Laurens (P)2007 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Fans of Laurens's popular Cynster...romances will expect the high adventure and steamy, sensual love scenes that are her signature, and they won't be disappointed." ( Publishers Weekly)

Good series off to a great start

I enjoyed this book, as I do most of Ms Laurens. I don't understand the disparagement of Jill Tanner. I personally liked her narration and did not think it detracted from the story at all. The Bastion Club series is a different twist on the typical Regency novels. I recommend them and Jill Tanner.

Grim-Aced

I honestly don’t think I would have noticed how many, many, many times the author used the word, grimaced, if the narrator hadn’t mispronounced it each and every time.
By the end, not only was it grating on my nerves, I had a distinct vision of the entire cast of characters walking around London looking like they had painful belly gas.
The pronunciation really distracted front the story and the repeated use of the word lowered my opinion of Laurens as an author.

Need real Male voices!

Wish someone would realize we don’t care who reads the books as long as you have a male and female voice instead of someone famous. I don’t recognize these people’s names. Snd just think
Once it’s done you don’t have to have it read again. You’ll make more money!

*semi-spoiler alert

Great start to a new series.
So glad Stephanie Laurens departed from her usually predictable plot line of murder attempts of the main characters.

Horrible Narrator!

I've been an audible listener for well over 10 years. I know good narrators, such as Rosalyn Landor and Matthew Brenner, for example. I've heard several others who lack the ability to perform a book. Today I decided to vent and hope this review is read by somebody, anybody who can address this issue with Audible.

A narrator who does not know how to perform an audio book, realty kills the novel. This narrator, Tanner, reads in a very choppy way, like there are commas after every three or four words! She starts sentences rushing the words, and she mispronounces "grimaced" as "gri maced " way way waaay too many times. (listen to the samples to understand what I'm trying to say)... Authors need to be aware of the number of times they use certain words in a story. Grimace is used as if it was gold, and each time used means Money in their pocket. I wonder if Audible people even monitor the recording! Or if an editor is used at all. If they do, then the monitor needs to listen to excellent narrators so that they will have a solid baseline in order to judge/edit/or how ever they make decisions when approving a recording. I believe the story/plot of this novel is interesting, but the narrator killed it for me. I couldn't tolerate listening to that narrator for 15 hours!

Audible has been around for some time now, and I am shocked to find so many VERY POOR narrators (I can name 3 or 4 others) still being used or the recording is not updated using a better narrator. I suggest a good bit of training is needed in some instances, such as the narrator for this book. I have started to skip books narrated by certain people. The listen is not worth my time or money....

The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens

You can count on Stephanie Laurens to go deep and give you a great journey in another time for your money. Protagonist Tristan is bound and determined to choose his own bride despite her own resistance! Very enjoyable!

Average listen

I was forewarned that the Bastion series was not very good; this one was tolerable.

Meh, Slow and Meandering

Could have been 4 hours shorter. Fine but story and plot drag. Basic escapism. Listen while doing something else. No character development, irritating main female character, loads of boring internal dialog. All telling and not showing, etc. There are lots of sex scenes, but who cares. The reader is fine but sounds too old. She makes occasional mouth noises but you get used to it. Heard worse.

I Grim-maced

I believe the word is grimace which I heard way too often and was so oddly pronounced.

Yes, but

A finely crafted story spoiled by the narrator in the beginning and excessive wordiness throughout. In the beginning, the narrator paused after every sentence but read the sentences at a good clip so increasing the speed would have been counterproductive. At some point she started talking normally. I am not a prude and enjoy reading the sexual encounters but found it unbelievable in quality and quantity. And at parties they never got caught!?!