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The Key

By: Lynsay Sands
Narrated by: Chloe Lynn
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Return to the wild beauty of Scotland in The Key, a classic historical romance novel from New York Times best-selling author Lynsay Sands.

Married to a barbaric laird in order to escape a worse fate, Iliana Wildwood is determined to remain a chaste wife...until her warrior husband plunders the marriage bed, awakening her to pleasures she's never known before! If you love the quirky, loveable heroines of Julie Garwood's historical romances, then you're going to love award-winning author Lynsay Sands. Featuring Sands' trademark humor and sexy alpha hero, The Key is a sensual historical romance you won't want to miss!

©1999 Lynsay Sands (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Historical Historical Fiction Medieval Romance Fiction Marriage Middle Ages Witty
Entertaining Story • Delightful Humor • Good Narration • Amusing Book • Awesome Author • Humorous Moments
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I loved it
The stew was genius and the narration was also very good. Sizzling

Good narration

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I love the titles that LS gives her books in this series. They have meaning and you learn this right away. The subject matter and the humor in her books are so delightful. They are a must listen.

Nice and Funny Second Instalment

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I loved the handheld book on its release date! read in one sitting!!
I adored this audio version very much, listened in one sitting!
Awesome Author!

Awesome Write!

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entertaining story. loved the audio. a war of wills that end up in a happy ending.

love the story

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Love the humor and sassy ladies in this series! The sometimes stubborn hero’s aren’t half bad either! Good read, you’ll enjoy it! Audible20

Love the humor! Audible 20

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While I enjoyed the story, and narration, I’m even more amused as the furious review about the waterproof plaids. I hope the review felt satisfied with herself for leaving it.

Decent story

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I've like them both, thusfar, only one left but alas it may have to wait until new credits hit in June, boohoo!

The 2nd in this series...

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I enjoy her books overall some better than others but always entertaining. I laughed out loud on this one.

Sands

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The story first started up really well, but the narration was very irritating. I dragged on, but it was nice. I give a three out of five stars.

Good enough

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I have several issues with this bucket of dirty bath water that is this audiobook.

Firstly, the narrator has a odd and distracting cadence with too long pauses between commas. She’s got a pretty good grasp on the Scottish accents but she fritters in and out of an American and English accent when I suppose she’s trying to have an English accent. She also pronounced several words wrong. These little things ripped me out of the story and made it seem 100 years long.

As for the story, I’m just at a loss to comprehend why I just read a romance novel in which the main male character refuses to bathe more than twice a year. There was a part where the main female character watches him take of his clothes and admires his body. Details about his ass which were supposed to enflame the reader only had me think that this man has not washed his ass in 6 months! I can’t think of anything more *not hot* than that.

The author also used a lot of words which seemed to be “of the time,” but then fritter in and out with modern words and sayings. Again, distracting me from the story. She also seemed to really like the Gaelic word for whisky because 3/4 into the book it was said 50 times. Of course the narrator butchered the pronunciation of that too.

I tried explaining this book to my fiancé and we both couldn’t stop laughing at how insane it was to write a romance novel about poor hygiene.

TL;DR: unless your kink is unwashed ass and frustrating narration, skip this one.

For the love of yourself, skip this one.

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