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Cruel Seduction
- Dark Olympus, Book 5
- De: Katee Robert
- Narrado por: Alex Moorcock, Zara Hampton-Brown
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet.
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Getting deeper
- De Jessica en 08-15-23
- Cruel Seduction
- Dark Olympus, Book 5
- De: Katee Robert
- Narrado por: Alex Moorcock, Zara Hampton-Brown
Slightly irritating
Revisado: 06-12-24
Let me be clear. I love the story line, plots, different character Arcs and the variety of relationships this series has to offer, but certain things about how it’s written, is personally irritating and off-putting to me. The author seems like she goes out of her way to scream from the rooftops that she’s woke. Making sure she is representing everyone.
This isn’t a bad thing at all, and I am not homophobic or bigoted in anyway, however it’s the way she does it, or how it’s written that is bothersome.
It’s not subtle. It’s overly saturated, which becomes irritating after the 5th book and takes away from the plot. I lose the emotion when I have to go back and try to remember which race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and pronoun someone goes by within the same book.
If you are going to represent a non-binary character. Do so. But make your main character or supporting character one. Don’t make it a character we never meet, that adds nothing to the plot and continue to reference them and their pronoun or race for the sheer purpose of announcing you’re woke. Once a character is introduced, we don’t need to continue to reference them by color or pronoun continuously, especially when they have nothing to do with anything in the plot. If a character has a mom and a “parent”. Introduce them as so, and then refer to them as parents. The non-binary parent is also a person. Parent isn’t their identity, and for such a little reference roll they played in the book, we could have gone without constantly being reminded of where they fall in the alphabet. We get it.
It comes off as the author checking off her alphabet checklist, instead of being genuine.
Another thing that is even more grating, which exacerbated the initial annoyance over the loud over-representation, is that every character introduced whether main or minuscule, is for the most part, only described by their race. “An angry white woman” “a cute black woman” “a white dude”. As if their entire identity is wrapped up in skin color.
Is it so much to ask that that characters have characteristic traits and identifiers other than or in addition to skin color? What emotions and depth did their eyes evoke when looked into? What was the slope of their nose? The suppleness of their lips? These are the descriptions that are more important than skin color. I am not suggesting there weren’t other descriptions given, but they seemed an afterthought or a rushed add on to the initial “a white man with red hair” Again, checking boxes.
My only other critic is that personally I feel like they end abruptly. They finally get together and it’s “end scene”. I’d really love to see an epilogue. Other than these things, I really did enjoy this whole series and the narrators were amazing. So if you aren’t a little ocd about repetitive things, you’ll really enjoy it.
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I'll Just Date Myself
- Gator Bait MC, Book 7
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Connor Crais, Rose Dioro
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away the key. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is. What Kobe doesn’t know is that the man who hired him is up to no good, and she has no other choice but to run without looking back.
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The entire series was great to read
- De JaimeIsaac en 04-18-25
- I'll Just Date Myself
- Gator Bait MC, Book 7
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Connor Crais, Rose Dioro
Series finished strong
Revisado: 06-26-23
I have a love hate relationship with this series. I wanted more grit from the Gator Bait men, and a few books in the middle of this series lacked the what we all know LLV is capable of creating. I am so happy that the last 3 books really picked up and finished strong. The only thing that I wish this book had was more spice. But the story was so good that it didn’t detract from its quality, just made me want more! Also, the last two books are the only two in this series that the narrators, both male and female did excellent.
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Special Kind of Twisted
- Gator Bait MC, Book 6
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Desiree Ketchum, Blake Richard
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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He had a way of pulling everyone into his darkness. Then, to make matters worse, he convinced you that you liked it there. Kyle Davis—ex professional baseball player and current felon—loved Sara, his best friend. Strictly platonically, of course. He’d do absolutely anything for her, even put up with Greer, Sara’s other best friend
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Enjoyable but not predictable
- De tori en 03-03-24
- Special Kind of Twisted
- Gator Bait MC, Book 6
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Desiree Ketchum, Blake Richard
Finally!
Revisado: 06-25-23
The chemistry in this book is what I’ve been craving in this series! By far the best of this series. Loved it.
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The Voices Are Back
- Gator Bait MC, Book 5
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Angelina Rocca, Ryan Stone
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Morrigan St. Pete. The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one.
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Another win for LLV!
- De Lori E. en 04-14-23
- The Voices Are Back
- Gator Bait MC, Book 5
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Angelina Rocca, Ryan Stone
Really struggling with this series
Revisado: 06-25-23
I really thought that this series was going to be better. I always liked that the female and male leads are a little flawed, but as someone with MS who actually has some of the symptoms described, it was a little depressing. I really miss the quality and depth of early OG LLV. Because of those early series, ill buy anything LLV writes, but for the love of good bring back that Free Bird, Dixie Warden, Simple Man, and even Battle Crow Energy.
Also, the narration of this series is not good. Either the female isn’t good or the male isn’t good. In this one the female did a good job of sounding like she was constantly exhausted and in pain with a silent illness. Again, as I relate with MS, it made me tense up whenever she narrated, so I guess she actually did an amazing job.
The male narrator on the other hand sounded like he was in his late 60s and not in a Zaddy kind of way, and did this weird thing and made his voice 3 octaves higher when doing other male characters voices. Like, why would Wake, the leader of the MC have a high pitched voice? Where the hell is Mason Llyod and Joe Arden?
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Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty
- Gator Bait MC, Book 1
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Cindy Harden, Will Peters
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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The problem with Wake was that he was understandable. He was the type of villain who literally scared the absolute shit out of you because you knew that under the right circumstances, you could end up exactly like him.
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Good start!
- De Anonymous User en 12-13-22
- Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty
- Gator Bait MC, Book 1
- De: Lani Lynn Vale
- Narrado por: Cindy Harden, Will Peters
Great start
Revisado: 12-12-22
Great start to a new series! I love that it was a little longer than the last few and had a much stronger storyline. The only critique I have is with the narration, specifically the male. They both did a great job, but they make the characters sound a lot older.
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Sin with Me
- De: Johnathan McClain, JA Huss
- Narrado por: Tad Branson, Ava Erickson
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Maddie isn’t looking to be saved. She knows the only person you can count on is yourself. Her moral compass might not point true north these days - but at least she’s still standing. The military taught Tyler about loyalty. Being there for your brothers is the only thing that matters - but when it mattered most, he wasn’t.
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Too sad for me.
- De ReadingMad100 en 08-18-18
- Sin with Me
- De: Johnathan McClain, JA Huss
- Narrado por: Tad Branson, Ava Erickson
Provocative and Heartbreaking
Revisado: 05-12-21
Book two in this series really killed me. The angst and tragic love is really portrayed in the amazing performance from these two artists. The collaboration on this series from Huss and McClain is genius.
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Conceited
- Crimson Elite, Book 3
- De: T. L. Smith
- Narrado por: Ava Erickson, Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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I would like to say we were old lovers. That once upon a time he was my everything, and I was his, but that would be a lie. He may have been mine, but I wasn’t his. I was his sister’s annoying little friend who he didn’t even know was in love with him. Years later, after seeing him again for the first time, nothing has changed. Except now, he notices me, and I will do everything in my power to avoid him. Because Falcon is the most conceited man on this planet, and because when he looks at me with steel eyes, my heart still misses a beat.
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Wrong names??
- De Braannxo en 01-23-21
- Conceited
- Crimson Elite, Book 3
- De: T. L. Smith
- Narrado por: Ava Erickson, Alexander Cendese
Few hiccups but still great!
Revisado: 04-30-21
Love the story and narrative, but I have a huge pet peeve is when the author forgets or confuses the names from past books. Like Sarina(antagonist) instead of Storm (protagonist) for a whole scene which is really annoying and also, switching up the name of Tracy’s wife, to Vicky instead of Jordan. Vicky was her co-worker, not her wife in the second book. Otherwise, solid book.
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Cavalier
- A Crimson Elite Novel
- De: T.L. Smith
- Narrado por: Teddy Hamilton, Mackenzie Cartwright
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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If God created the perfect man he would closely resemble Creed - on the outside, that is. He’s as cavalier as they come. Unconcerned. Cold. Dismissive. I wonder if he has any feelings at all. And when his lips touch mine, everything goes black. He takes me into his world, and it’s the most magical thing I’ve ever experienced. And I’m sucked in time and time again. Like a moth to the flame, I am ready to be set alight.
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BLEW ME AWAY
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 04-15-19
- Cavalier
- A Crimson Elite Novel
- De: T.L. Smith
- Narrado por: Teddy Hamilton, Mackenzie Cartwright
Loved
Revisado: 04-30-21
So glad I found this Author, great start to a new series. Teddy Hamilton always does it right!
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