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Audio Review: Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts

December 24th, 2009 | 4 Stars, 5 Stars, Architect, Book Review, Business, Contemporary, Entrepreneur, Friends, P-R, The Arts, United States of America 

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Bed of Roses is number two in the Bride Quartet (which might as well be called Vows after their business).

I have not yet read or listened to Vision in White. I’m on the list at the library for the book and the audio book but neither has come in. This is just another reason why I love Stellar Sellers which denote materials that can be checked out for one lending period only and can’t be put on hold. Hurrah!

Nora Roberts skillfully sets up the friendships and characters with just a few words. Emmaline (Emma) Grant is an optimistic woman with romance in her soul. She believes in love and HEA because she has seen it work in her parents. She loves flowers and is the florist in the business. Her job is very rewarding because she is almost always complicated over her work arranging and designing flower bouquets. It does leave her hands a little worse for wear – stripping roses of their thorns is hard work!

Emma has been in love with Jack Cooke for a long while, but has successfully denied her feelings even to herself over the course of the years. He is the best friend of Parker’s (her best friend) brother. In her mind that made him a no-go territory because to pursue him and have the relationship fail would certainly cause strain on the group mechanics.

Jack is an architect who owns his own firm. He can be romantic, but has a crippling fear of intimacy. His reasons for avoiding Emma are similar to her own but with the added knowledge that pursuing Emma would more likely mean a wedding, marriage, kids, a beer gut in ten years, and teaching Little League. The idea practically unmans him, but the experience of kissing Emma behind the scenes at a wedding is too amazing to pass up… and he wants to do it again soon.

Angela Dawe, the reader, does a phenomenal job bringing the book to life. I sincerely hope she narrates the rest of the Quartet because she is just that good and I couldn’t imagine the characters sounding different. She’s an actress and improviser so it’s no wonder how easily she pulls off different moods, inflections, accents, and tones. I highly recommend listening to this book!

Book Rating: 4 Stars
Narrator Rating: 5 Stars

Buy: Bed of Roses (Audio Book), Bed of Roses (Paperback)

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2 comments ↓
#1 Susan S. on 12.24.09 at 11:51 am

I love Nora Roberts! She’s an author who truly delivers. I fell in love with her writing when I read her Irish trilogy. It includes “Jewels of the Sun,” “Tears of the Moon,” and “Heart of the Sea.” I have alot of her trilogies, she has a vampire trilogy, and a trilogy of witch sisters. Yes, really! I haven’t read her Bride Quartets yet, but hope I can squeeze in the time in the near future. Thanks for reviewing.

#2 Keira on 12.24.09 at 12:42 pm

I haven’t read her in years until I picked this novel up. I didn’t like the romantic suspense/thriller stories she was putting out for a while. I think I read the witch trilogy and a few others but I don’t really remember them. :) This Quartet novel is really good – loved the narrator. Like LOVED her. lol

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