The accelerated narration has angered fans as can be seen in Audible reviews while others capable of adjusting their ears to the engineered velocity of the narration, remain grateful to see Ms Laurenston's books in audio. No human could consistently keep up the pace in this audio. And insulting to audiobook fans who can easily discern when a book has obviously been adjusted to a higher speed. Then in a stroke of sheer stupidity, they mechanically sped up the entire narration! Did they think putting Ms Parker on fast forward would fool dedicated audiobook listeners? Or were they hoping Johanna Parker on speed combined with a name change would distance her from her fame as the narrator of the Sookie Stackhouse series? Whatever their reasoning, it's disrespectful to the author to not provide her with the best production possible for her audiobook.

They need a skilled narrator to pull them off.

Shelly Laurenston writes funny, bawdy, 'suspend reality and just enjoy' books. In a stroke of genius, the publisher chose Johanna Parker (changing her name to Charlotte Kane) to narrate Shelly Laurenston's Pride series. Why speed up Johanna Parker/Charlotte Kane? Even big, gorgeous, lion-shifting, oh-my-what-big-um-paws-you-have men. First order of business: Find a mate, settle down, and stop using men for sex. Ronnie Lee Reed is ready to change her life, and New York City is the place where any girl, even one who runs with a Pack, can redefine herself. Once he sets his sights on her, the predator in him is ready to pounce and never let go. And he never thought the woman of his dreams would have a Tennessee accent and wear cowboy boots. He didn't think he'd survive the night, much less find the woman of his dreams. He's been beaten, had a gun to the back of his head, and had to be rescued by a Pack of shape-shifting wolves. Shaw's Tail: Brendon Shaw, hotel owner and lion shifter, has seen better days. Together, they'd always been trouble, but Dez has no idea just how good trouble can feel. In fact, he likes her any way he can get her.in bed, on the desk, here, now, again.

It's more about that disconcerting, shifting-from-man-to-lion thing that unhinges her.and makes her want more. It isn't even that he sniffs her neck and purrs, making her entire body tingle. Or the six-four, built-like-a-Navy-SEAL bod-o-death. It isn't just the way he stares at her with those too-sexy gold eyes, as if he could devour her on the spot. Shelly Laurenston turns up the heat with two sizzling novellas.Ĭhristmas Pride: How come all the good-looking ones are insane? That's what runs through NYPD cop Desiree 'Dez' MacDermot's mind the minute she hooks up again with her childhood buddy, Mace Llewellyn.

The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston