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Title: To Ruin a Queen

Author: Fiona Buckley

Narrator: Nadia May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

With surprises at every turn and a highly suspenseful setting, To Ruin a Queen is the best novel yet from an author whose series continues to gain momentum and whose heroine becomes more beguiling with each new tale.

Critic Reviews:

"A heroine to reckon with." (Kirkus Reviews) "Buckley's tantalizing re-creation of Elizabethan life and manner is told with intelligence and gentle wit." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Un interesting Un everything

This is a Mills & Boon historical fiction. What a waste of time and money. It should be listed under 'romance' not 'history'. Factually/historically inaccurate in its elaborate descriptions. I have no idea how it ended because I died of boredom before I reached the finish. Very disappointing.

4/4

This is book four available here. I have enjoyed them and hope the rest will follow.

The narrator, Nadia May, records under several pseudonyms and is excellent in all of them.

Loved it

Great characters, good plot and an intriguing heroine are just the obvious checks in the plus column for this book. If you enjoy a lively read with some female perspective this series is for you. I have only one complaint.

There are several more books but they aren't in the Audible library!!!

Not as good as the first in this series

I enjoyed the first of this series "To Shield The Queen" so much that I bought this book as soon as I finished the first. Overall, this second one is alright but not as well written as the first. There's too much minutiae and rambling on and on about things which add nothing to the story. Also Ursula is a bit out of control here, engaging in acts which are totally implausible during her "CSI: Gloriana" undercover work, especially for a rookie investigator in an era before formal forensics. Even my favorite Audible.com narrator, Nadia May, falters with this reading. Normally a master of different voices and dialects, I don't know what happened with her rendition of Gladys, the derelict "town witch". Allegedly Welsh, Gladys alternately sounds like she's either Pakistani or Jamaican! It becomes a bit irritating after a while since May's command of both American and European accents, both past and present, is always excellent; her narration soothing and animated in the all the right places. This is still a good book but just don't listen to it right after the first one, thinking that it will be comparable. I wasn't so disappointed that I was put off from getting "Queen's Ransom", the third book in the series as soon as I finished this one. I'll just wait a week or so, listening to a few other books by different authors and narrators first.

Love It!!!

Would you consider the audio edition of To Ruin a Queen to be better than the print version?

I have not read the printed version of this book, but the narrator is wonderful.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Ursula of course is my favorite character. She is smart and courageous. Just absolutely enjoy her her.

Have you listened to any of Nadia Mays other performances before? How does this one compare?

Ms. May is just amazing in her performance of Ms, Buckley's books...

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

A roller coaster ride called Mystery.

Any additional comments?

Please consider getting the entire series of Ursula Blanchard.