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The Perfect Lover

Cynster, Book 10

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The Perfect Lover

By: Stephanie Laurens
Narrated by: Katie Carr
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About this listen

 Simon Frederick Cynster has a perfect life, one of enormous wealth and impeccable social status. His lean handsomeness turns the heads of naive debutantes, while his sensual allure ensures he never lacks for more sophisticated partners for a night of pleasure.

However, Simon accepts that he must find a wife to achieve true contentment. Someone who will spend her days as a member of one of England's most influential families...and her nights pursuing duties of a more private nature.

So he discreetly begins his search at a house party at Glossup Hall and is astonished that the lady who immediately captures his interest in Portia Ashford. Simon has never considered Portia as a potential wife, but a heated kiss abruptly alters the rules of their decade-long interaction. As Simon and Portia begin to explore the depths of their mutual passion, a shocking murder is committed, and it appears that the next victim will be Portia herself.

©2003 Stephanie Laurens (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Romantic Suspense Suspense Marriage

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Critic reviews

"Elegant writing flavored with wit, memorable characters, some superbly sensual and exquisitely detailed love scenes, and a plot laced with danger all come together beautifully in this wickedly fun, wonderfully sexy romance." ( Booklist)
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Quite a good story, well worth a listen. Their romantic encounters are steamy & well written.

Worth a listen

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Having listened to Simon Prebble’s narration of earlier Cynster novels, I felt this performance failed to live up to his. The narrator didn’t have the expression, pace (too fast and slower speed too hesitant), and skill to differentiate between the narrative and more romantic scenes.

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The abridgment ruined the story almost as much as the narrator who made the hero sound like a high-pitched boy. Most disturbing during what was supposed to be sensual scenes.

Not worth the money

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As others have said, appalling narration. It's about as good as it would be if I read it to myself..! The story was ok, but perhaps spoiled by the abridgement, it's hard to tell with the poor narration. Come back Simon Prebble, all is forgiven!

Glad it's abridged - less to listen to!

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bland narration. prefer to read the book in this instance. a great shame. others by Simkn Prebble brought to life. this was just reading words in the book with little intonation.

made me realise how important the narrator is. .

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Story was as always good. Really do not like the pointless music between chapters. Totally pointless interruptions.

Disappointed

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This is a condensed version. I would not have bought it if I had realised.

Disappointing

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Badly abridged. In places the story simply didn’t make sense and the humour was missing.

Disappointing

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The abridging removes most of the humour and all the subtle nuances of the evolving relationships and the reasons for a lot of the decisions made by the characters. If you have not read the original book it might be quite good but for me it had lost everything interesting.

disappointing

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