Author: Bella Andre
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Series: The New York Sullivans, Book 1
Publisher: Oak Press, LLC
Released: Aug. 9, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 5 Stars
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Bella Andre. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
Millions of readers/listeners have fallen in elve with the San Francisco and Seattle Sullivans. Now get ready to fall head over heels for the New York Sullivans!
World-renowned artist Drake Sullivan doesn't paint women. Ever. Not when he knows all too well just how destructive painter/muse relationships can be. But on the day Rosa Bouchard walks onto the cliffs outside his Montauk cottage, Drake is so captivated that he can't stop himself from bringing her to life on canvas.
Shocked and horrified by the nude photos of her that have just hit the Internet, reality TV star Rosa's every instinct is to run from her Miami home and hide. After driving all night, she ends up in Montauk, New York, where she doesn't know a soul and plans to lie low until she can figure out how to deal with the media firestorm - and her own mother, who seems all too happy to sell out Rosa's happiness for more fame, more fans, and more money. The very last thing Rosa expects is to find, and to fall for, a sinfully sexy man like Drake Sullivan.
Drake has never felt this way about anything he's painted...and he's definitely never felt this way about a woman. When they kiss, everything but sweet, breathless desire melts away. But can he convince Rosa to trust - and to love - again after such a devastating betrayal?
Where does Now That I've Found You rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It's one of those books that I would listen to more than once. Especially as I listen to more of the Sullivan family.
Have you listened to any of Eva Kaminsky’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Ms. Kaminsky has a very pleasant voice. It allows you to listen to the story she is telling and forgetting everything around you. You forget time - she pulls you in to the world of the Sullivans. So you may find it hard to get any work done if that was your plan.
Any additional comments?
The author has created a story that makes you feel a part of the Sullivan family. You can feel the love they have for each other. They are very welcoming to those that can be considered extended family. Ms. Kaminsky does a great job of getting that feeling across. Your experience is so different when you listen as opposed to reading. If you've not experienced this family before, this is a great place to start.
Because we can't see the story play out, like a television series or a movie, we rely on the voice of a narrator to do that for us. They add another dimension to a story that you yourself are reading. This narrator made it a very pleasant experience. But she's also made it very difficult for me. I liked my experience so much that I don't know about actually reading a Sullivan book. What I may have to decide is which of the author's books would I read and which ones would I listen to. Our author and our narrator make a great pair.
I've never really discovered what New York State has to offer and I just may have to change that. This is one of those books that I can see listening to as I walk around Montauk New York and picture where some of the characters may have walked. See if there's an art gallery around where Drake may have shown his work. If I have the urge to travel it's because the author has done such a great job in creating a world that you find you too want to explore. The difficulty would be in planning to be at a certain place when you hear a certain scene. What you might enjoy may have someone else wondering if you're crazy. But it's your enjoyment of the story that's what's important. The ending will leave you looking forward to book two - I know that I can't wait.
Because we can't see the story play out, like a television series or a movie, we rely on the voice of a narrator to do that for us. They add another dimension to a story that you yourself are reading. This narrator made it a very pleasant experience. But she's also made it very difficult for me. I liked my experience so much that I don't know about actually reading a Sullivan book. What I may have to decide is which of the author's books would I read and which ones would I listen to. Our author and our narrator make a great pair.
I've never really discovered what New York State has to offer and I just may have to change that. This is one of those books that I can see listening to as I walk around Montauk New York and picture where some of the characters may have walked. See if there's an art gallery around where Drake may have shown his work. If I have the urge to travel it's because the author has done such a great job in creating a world that you find you too want to explore. The difficulty would be in planning to be at a certain place when you hear a certain scene. What you might enjoy may have someone else wondering if you're crazy. But it's your enjoyment of the story that's what's important. The ending will leave you looking forward to book two - I know that I can't wait.
Bella Andre is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of “The Sullivans”, “The Morrisons” and “The Maverick Billionaires” series.Having sold more than 7 million books, Bella Andre's novels have been #1 bestsellers around the world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 64 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon (on a top 10 list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Stephen King). Apple iBooks named her one of their “Bestselling Authors of All Time” (alongside Nicholas Sparks, Nora Roberts and EL James). And Publishers Weekly named Oak Press, the publishing company she created to publish her own books, the Fastest-Growing Independent Publisher in the US. After signing a groundbreaking 7-figure print-only deal with Harlequin MIRA, Bella's “The Sullivans” series is being released in paperback in the US, Canada, and Australia.
Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance” (Publishers Weekly), her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine “Red Hot Reads” twice and have been translated into ten languages. Winner of the Award of Excellence, The Washington Post called her “One of the top writers in America”; and she has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and TIME Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University, she has given keynote speeches at publishing conferences from Copenhagen to Berlin to San Francisco, including a standing-room-only keynote at Book Expo America in New York City.
Bella also writes the New York Times bestselling Four Weddings and a Fiasco series as Lucy Kevin. Her “sweet” contemporary romances also include the new USA Today bestselling Walker Island series written as Lucy Kevin.
If not behind her computer, you can find her reading her favorite authors, hiking, swimming or laughing. Married with two children, Bella splits her time between the Northern California wine country and a 100-year-old log cabin in the Adirondacks.
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Eva Kaminsky is a New York born and NYC based actor and narrator. A 2014 Audie nominee, she has recorded over 150 audiobooks in many different genres ranging from Romance to Young Adult. Eva can often be heard on TV and radio commercials for such products as Intel, Publix, Neulasta and Tide, and spent her earlier years in the world of animation voicing characters for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, among many others. Recent recurring and guest appearances on television include Chicago Med, Billions, Madam Secretary, Madoff, Blindspot, and The Blacklist, and on the larger screen she can be seen in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Three Generations, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. She has spent over 20 years working in the theatre, both on and Off Broadway, and extensively in regional theatres all over the country.Website
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