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The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis Narrator: Karen White
Series: Wildstone #1.5
Published by HarperAudio on May 1, 2018
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Length: 2 hours, 47 minutes
Format: Audiobook
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After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn't anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won't cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and first love sitting in the front row.
Dylan knows he should've left well enough alone, but when he sees Tilly living her dream, he can't help but make contact. Ten years ago, he left Wildstone and everything in it behind, including Tilly. He had his reasons, but now he wants her back in his life, anyway he can get her.
When Tilly agrees to design the logo for Dylan's new helicopter touring company, it's business only...until she finds herself falling into his arms once again. Can she possibly open her heart back up to the only man who's ever broken it? But soon they're both realizing the truth - love always deserves a second chance.
| I listened to Lost and Found Sisters last year which is the first book in this Wildstone series. It was a 5 hearts listen for me. It ended up in my Top 10 Audiobooks of 2017. Many of those feelings were also in this novella set 10 years later. This continues the story of the younger sister, Tilly.
Jill Shalvis has given us her usual amazing story. I was so happy to get more of the story and even a bit of Quinn and Mick. Again, Tilly’s journal entries were awesome. I did enjoy how authentic Dylan and Tilly were; they didn’t play games. Leo was another character which is a strength in this author’s writing, as is her sense of humor. I loved it all and look forward to Rainy Day Friends, which is planned for June 19. Narration:Karen White did the narration on the previous one and was outstanding. Her performance made this one more fun, too. Both Tilly and Dylan sounded just right to me. I listened at 1.25 speed comfortably. Listen to a clip:
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About Karen White
Karen White is a classically trained actress who has been recording audio books since 1999 and has well over 150 books to her credit and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Honored to be included inAudiofile’s Best Voices 2010 and 2011, she’s also an Audie Finalist and Best Audiobook of the Year winner for 2009, 2010 and 2011 (The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon Reed, Too Good to be True by Erin Arvedlund, and Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor) and she has earned multiple Audiofile Earphones Awards, recently for and You Had Me at Woof by Julie Klam and Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz. Publishers Weekly says of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, “Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience.” Speaking of Audiobooks says of her, “Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators – if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try.”
KAREN GREY is the pen name for award-winning narrator Karen White. A stage, screen and radio drama actor in Boston, New York and Los Angeles in the late 20th century, she started recording books in 1999. Now back in her home state of North Carolina, she shares a home with her family and (probably) too many pets, where she continues to narrate audiobooks as well as make up stories.
About Jill Shalvis
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2018 Audiobook Challenge
- 2018 New Release Challenge
Love seeing that the follow-up book kept up the good vibe you got from the first book. I still need to read book one. It’s been setting on the Kindle forever. 😉
Have a great Memorial Day weekend, Anne! Are you getting out on the bike?
It’s great also I wish it were a little bit longer. As for the Harley, I hope so. The past 2 years I’ve done trips over Memorial Day and planned to this year. But my daughter needs my support with her new health regimen.In 2016, I rode 60 miles a day to TX to see my SOA peeps, indluding Charlie Hunnam. Last year, I rode to DC and participated in Rolling Thunder. Both my Harley trips this year have been dropped for problems. I have one more in mind. I hope to get out and about over the next week but it looks to be rather rainy. I am fine with rain on a long trip but for a day trip I don’t want to mess with all the gear so I just try to go on a non-rainy day.