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First Time: Ian's Story

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First Time: Ian's Story

By: Abigail Barnette
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced - everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for...with a woman he would never have expected.

Contains mature themes.

©2015 Abigail Barnette (P)2016 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Divorce
Wonderful Story • Enjoyable Characters • Romantic Accent • Perfect Humor • Sweet Flow • Good Plot
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One of the worst narrators I’ve ever encountered. He can’t do a female voice to save his life. My romance books are 98% audiobooks so I’ll probably never actually read it. Thank goodness I started this the day before it left Audible Plus. DNF 30 min of 9:30 (Ch 2).

MMC Ian, 53, recently divorced. Scottish, but living in U.S. for the last 27 years.

FMC Penny, 22, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Terrible narrator-I’ll have to read it instead.

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I love Abigail Barnette and she did not disappoint in this story. I do hope that there is another book with Ian's pov because it was nice to have a male pic story.

Highly Recommend

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The narrator is so bad. It’s making it difficult to keep listening. Which sucks because I think the story has real potential and I was excited to listen to it.

I’m really trying.

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this book was really good. I really enjoyed this author and look forward to reading more.

loved it

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If you could sum up First Time: Ian's Story in three words, what would they be?

DELICIOUSLY SWEET!

What did you like best about this story?

That it was REAL...not some fluffy over the top unbelievable garbage.

Which character – as performed by Antony Ferguson – was your favorite?

IAN!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

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Any additional comments?

Did not want it to end!

THE BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Love Ian and Penny’s love story being told BUT the narration is awful, his accent sounds Canadian more than anything and Penny who is from PA sounds British most of the time. Also, how did Jenna become Gina from the Boss series to this one? It drove me nuts. The female narration for Penny’s POV is better, luckily but it’s not CJ Bloom who narrated the Boss Series.

Love Ian’s POV

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Abigail Barnette has written a wonderful story and her humor is delivered as needed perfectly by Antony Ferguson with such a romantic accent. The plot is good, I think the female lead could have had stronger lines to have made her a little more human but Mr. Ferguson carried all the characters well for the author. I've found a new author and will certainly buy more books by Ferguson.

Fabulous story!

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The story wasn’t bad, but I didn’t like the narrator’s voice. Especially when he tried to voice Penny. But it was a good bridge from Neil and Sofie’s story.

Hard to listen too.

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Enjoyed immensely. Hope to hear more in the future. Crossing my fingers that a series would be possible.

spectacular

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Such a sweet little story that flowed well. I can't wait to read the next one!!

Sweet

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