Book-On-Tape
Written by LaVyrle Spencer
Read by Loryn Locklin

     Let's face it, this story is really cheesy. It's about some chick who juices her
drawers over a guy she meets at her friend's wedding. Of course, she herself is about 
to be married in three months. Her fiancee is an ambitious guy who spends a lot of his
free time working on his free-lance computer business so he's portrayed as totally 
unfeeling. There's plenty of good railings against computers in this thing. Not only 
that but there's some truly bizarre stuff about him actually falling for this chick's
mother. All in all there's some twisted ethics and a predictable ending. Luckily, we're
spared the usual romace novel stuff like run on sentences about sexual encounters. You
know the kind I mean, the ones that never actually SAY anything but hint at EVERYTHING.
And they usually make reference to "pulsating manhood" and "heaving bosoms" somewhere.
     Well, I sure didn't listen to it for the story! Hell, no! The only reason I gave it
a try at all was because of Loryn Locklin. And, to be honest, she did a really good job.
I've been subjected to a few books-on-tape in my time. Most of the people who read for 
those things seem to adopt a certain tone, a kind of aloofness that doesn't really draw a
person in. They sound...detached. Not so with Loryn's reading.
     First and foremost, Loryn seems to be an actress. When she read the dialogue in this
book, she read it the way she says her movie lines: with feeling! Stupid as the plot was,
she brought the characters to life. I enjoyed her performance, but I wish she was reading
something a little less sappy.
     I suppose my only criticism, which isn't really a fair one, is her the way she 
pronounces certain words such as "either" or "often". Like I said, not really a fair thing
to be picky about, and as far as I know she is pronouncing them in valid ways. Certainly 
"either" can be said that way, but I don't know about making the "t" in "often" no longer
silent. *shrug*