Dialogue and action are summarized instead of showing details. And I did not like the audiobook narrator.I’ve enjoyed other books by this author, but this was not good. It’s all internal pondering and telling - not showing. Examples: 1. She says “there had been rumors that...” We don’t hear the conversations of who said what in the rumors. 2. The author skipped a conversation and wrote “Jack said all the right things.” 3. The couple is together doing something or going somewhere, but instead of talking, Jack is thinking in his head thoughts like: He knew if this happened in the future, she would do this. If that happened she would do that.I was so bored. I read more than half and then did the last two chapters. The ending is happy for the couple. I didn’t care. I just wanted to be done.There might be sex in this book, but there was none in the parts I read. This is a Harlequin Super Romance book.AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR India Plum.I did not like the narrator. She read as if she were not interested in what she was reading, like she was bored, as if she never smiled. I did not like her interpretations making some lines bratty, abrupt, or dismissive. I would not have read them like that. She used different voices and emphasized different words, but the overall feel was monotone. She has a heavy Australian accent.OTHER BOOKS:I enjoyed the following books by this author: Hot Island Nights and The Other Side of Us.DATA:Narrative mode: 3rd person. Unabridged audiobook length: 8 hrs and 32 mins. Swearing language: strong but not often used. Sexual content: unknown. Setting: current day mostly Melbourne, Australia. Book copyright: 2013. Genre: contemporary romance. Really liked this one a lot. It had a little less parental angst than the other Mathews sisters book, I think because this sister had dealt with it more already than the other one. The hero had his own angst, and there was the job related conflict--it's done well and just a thoroughly good read.(On a side note, I do live on a semi-tropical island where floral Hawaiian shirts are worn to church and almost any event. Most of the ones I see are not garish or tacky, but they can have vintage cars or parrots or hula girls on them and still be tasteful. I guess the people I know don't wear the awful ones. Or else island style really is different...)
What do You think about Her Favourite Rival (2013)?
Really not happy that Australians are forced to buy this in a twin-set with another book...
—meech627
