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Filthy Firefighter
- A Hero Club Novel
- De: Emma Louise, Hero Club
- Narrado por: Christian Fox, Michelle Ferguson
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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He looks like he belongs on stage, stripping out of his firefighter uniform, not running into a burning building to save me. But thank God he did. When the smoke clears and my eyes focus on my savior, one look at his gorgeous face and tattoo-covered muscles, I know he’ll be too much for me to handle. It’s a good thing I never have to see him again, right? Except, losing my home to a fire means finding somewhere new to live, and guess who just happens to be my new roommate?
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Two books on Adele
- De Carla Bruce en 07-14-20
- Filthy Firefighter
- A Hero Club Novel
- De: Emma Louise, Hero Club
- Narrado por: Christian Fox, Michelle Ferguson
Skipped over the major plot points
Revisado: 01-16-25
The story is good, but has an overload of angst for such little resolution time. The female main character hates herself through much of the story. Where they should be resolving issues they just jump forward to the wrap them up or skip the drama and dive into the epilogue.
As for the audio version, the narrators are fine when voicing their own character’s lines, but terrible with the other main characters. It’s almost beyond imaginable how bad the male narrator does female Australian. Neither of them can truly do a Savanah Georgia accent convincingly.
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It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time
- De: Kylie Scott
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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Returning home for her father’s wedding was never going to be easy for Adele. If being sent away at 18 hadn’t been bad enough, the mess she left behind when she made a pass at her dad’s business partner sure was. Fifteen years older than her, Pete had been her crush for as long as she could remember. But she’d misread the situation - confusing friendliness for undying love. Awkward. Seven years on, things are different. Adele is no longer a kid, but all it takes is seeing him again to bring back all those old feelings.
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2.5 stars. A miss for me.
- De ReadingMad100 en 03-16-19
- It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time
- De: Kylie Scott
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
Seriously unlikeable people
Revisado: 10-28-23
Clueless heroes are common in romance novels, but this guy is worse than clueless he’s cardboard. He repeatedly hurts her and while she’s supposed to be sassy she’s mostly just pathetic and obtuse. He’s made out to be the victim of her over the top pursuit of her teenage crush, and he never reconciles that he had any role back then. And now that she’s grown up he just wham bam thank you ma’ams her multiple times and tells her repeatedly he doesn’t want her in his space. Of course, there’s a supposed HEA, but it’s rushed and really doesn’t deal with any of the issues they’ve had previously. It could have been stripped out of any other romance and just plugged in at the end.
I usually like Kylie Scott so it was especially disappointing how bad this one was.
Special mention should go to the one decent character in the story, In a bit of a twist, it’s her brand new stepmother. She can’t redeem this mess though.
Andi Arndt is a great narrator usually, but she doesn’t even attempt to add an accent to this story and given the setting is Down Under, it’s jarring to hear mentions of places reminding you that this isn’t taking place in some suburban American town. It makes the setting feel completely removed.
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Brutal Obsession
- De: S. Massery
- Narrado por: Teddy Hamilton, Heather Firth
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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I had a foolproof plan. Finish college playing the best sport on earth. Hockey. Get drafted by an NHL team. Make my senator father at least a little proud of me. I was on track to do just that…until Violet Reece and I collided. Literally.
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Did not live up to the hype
- De Lovabull Books en 04-23-23
- Brutal Obsession
- De: S. Massery
- Narrado por: Teddy Hamilton, Heather Firth
Gets worse and worse … zero about this story is romantic
Revisado: 09-24-23
Don’t let the category fool you. This is not a romance at any point. There is no redemption story, just an awful hero an even worse than stupid heroine and the ugliness that persists between them. It starts out intriguing, but then the story just makes no sense.
Yes, Teddy Hamilton is a great narrator, but his voice is too good guy to portray this guy who is essentially soulless - no conscience, no heart, just a dick and perhaps a couple of useless brain cells. The heroine’s brain cells are even more useless. I almost DNFed it (which I rarely do) but instead I put it on 2.5 speed to just see if anything improved. It didn’t. Truly it got worse.
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Flowers from the Storm
- De: Laura Kinsale
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 18 h y 59 m
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He's a duke. He's a mathematical genius. He can't talk and he's locked in a lunatic asylum. Only a modest Quaker girl can reach him, but when she helps him to escape, she's swept into his glittering aristocratic world, her life torn apart by his desperate attempt to save himself.
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~COMPELLING!!~ Love This Author! Love This Book!
- De 🌸DARA en 10-01-13
- Flowers from the Storm
- De: Laura Kinsale
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
Character growth galore for him, none for her
Revisado: 08-23-23
I heard about this story back when it first came out nearly 30 years ago. It was one of the most popular books that year. I would have still been a teenager back then. I’m glad I didn’t tackle it then. I’d have despised it. It is too thin on romance, and that was all I read back then. It’s still mostly what I read now, but I’ve hopefully matured in my tastes enough to take in more complex stories. This book has depth and complexity as it is a beautiful in its depiction of Christian and his struggles. His character development/growth is amazing. In the beginning, he’s a man in need of a lot of change to become worthy of more than the superficial respect his title affords him. I also start out liking the pious, sanctimonious Maddy Timms. The problem is, her character seems to grow not at all, maybe even seeming to get weaker right up to the end. She starts out believing she has a calling from God to help him. She stubbornly sticks to her plan to do so. This is when she’s at her most likable. But then, when she should be falling in love with him, she claims to love him, but doesn’t seem to at all. Mostly, she never seems to revise her attitude about his lifestyle. She should respect and admire his returning strength, instead she seems to like him less as the story goes on because as he recovers she sees him returning to the man she once thought a reprobate. She’s constantly angry with herself and him for the worldly weaknesses she sees due to the way her faith view colors her perceptions of the world. She stagnates as a character, no growth whatsoever while he seems utterly transformed by his illness, recovery and his love for her. For a romance, it is one of the most uneven portrayals of character growth I’ve ever seen.
For the uncommon portrayal of a romance hero struggling with disabilities, the writer scores major storytelling accolades, especially for the era in which it was written, when pressures were for conformity rather than representation.
For the beautiful narration of Christian’s verbal and mental struggles, I applaud this narrator and his lovely voice.
But for Maddy, and her sanctimoniousness that was truly unrelenting, I have to say she ruined the romance of this story. It’s still a good story, but it’s not a good romance and much of that is due to her lack of any perceivable evolution. I’ve seen religious heroines, written in the same era (Julie Garwood’s Catholic heroines come to mind) who are similarly troubled by balancing piety with their wifely duties to a man much different in his beliefs, her self-righteousness is much more extreme, perhaps it is because she is a Quaker, Maddy’s beliefs keep her locked into a very one dimensional view of the world around her and it never changes. Even at the end when they are together, she still sees him as a sinner and she sees herself as having fallen to his level. It is a sad HEA from that perspective because she seems more resigned than happy with the path her heart has taken her.
I see why people love this story. But I also see why some people hate it. It depends on what you want. Though some say it is a 5 star romance, I can't give it that. I vacillate between 3/4 stars because the writing is just so good when it comes to the hero, but I can't love this story no matter how much I respect the quality of the writing, because in the end, I think he deserves her to love him for the man he has become.
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You Loved Me Once
- De: Corinne Michaels
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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As a doctor, I walk a dangerously delicate balance of being compassionate but not overly invested. The same is true in my personal life - love is a luxury I can’t afford. It isn’t until Dr. Westin Grant breaks down all my walls and offers me a future, I find myself wondering if I’m brave enough to risk my heart. When who I was and who I’ve tried to become collide during my clinical trial, the fate of one patient changes everything.
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Breathtakingly Beautiful, Powerfully Poignant!
- De kgagnon en 06-17-21
- You Loved Me Once
- De: Corinne Michaels
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
Too much of the other guy
Revisado: 06-26-23
This appears to be labeled as women's fiction, which is good because it was marketed as romance when I bought it and frankly as a romance it misses the mark badly. It is definitely angsty enough to be women's fiction instead. However, it really lacks the depts of character a good women's fiction story usually provides. At times, it seems to be trying to fill both roles and it is awful as a romance. She has been pining horribly over her first love for all of her adult life and she has constant flashbacks to the joyful feeling of falling in love with him. But we are supposed to buy that in the end she can be happy ever after with the man the story makes a two-dimensional nice guy she has been banging but not dating for the last few years. Her unethical choices, her constant flashbacks to her first love, her lack of commitment to the nice guy all make her frustrating to listen to for hours on end, even though the narrator does a good job trying to tell her story. In the end I put it on the highest speed I could just to chug along to the end.
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Quintessentially: The One
- An ABCs of Love Novel
- De: Aleatha Romig
- Narrado por: Monica King, Thomas Oakley
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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A trip back to the small Indiana town of Riverbend to finalize my grandmother’s last will and testament throws my world off its axis. I wasn’t prepared to learn the stipulations of her will or that she’d left her beloved mercantile Quintessential Treasures to my college summertime love, Kandace Sheers. Imagine my greater surprise when I learn about the secret that’s been roaming Riverbend for the last five years. Here are a couple of hints: She’s five years old. She has her mother’s silky auburn hair and my golden eyes.
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Just wow
- De Amazon Customer en 08-06-22
- Quintessentially: The One
- An ABCs of Love Novel
- De: Aleatha Romig
- Narrado por: Monica King, Thomas Oakley
Secret Baby, but why?
Revisado: 06-08-23
What she did in keeping this secret and asking his grandmother to keep it as well seems pretty unforgivable considering how flimsy her reasons are. Yet, after just one good angsty scene he easily moves on to being in love and wanting to settle down with her. I get that it’s a short book, but the central conflict is resolved with no work on the part of either main character or apparently the writer.
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The Summer Proposal
- De: Vi Keeland
- Narrado por: Sebastian York, Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Hockey star Max Yearwood was everything I needed at the time - fun, sexy, up for anything, and only around for a few months, since he’d signed with a new team 3,000 miles away. Max proposed we spend the summer helping me forget my ex. It sounded like a good plan. Things couldn’t get too serious when we had an expiration date. Right? Though, you know what they say about the best-laid plans.
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THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS
- De Bornin59 en 01-11-22
- The Summer Proposal
- De: Vi Keeland
- Narrado por: Sebastian York, Andi Arndt
Meh … just not good
Revisado: 06-02-23
The primary conflict through much of the story is she’s still in an open relationship with her ex fiancé who basically asked for her permission to allow him to cheat for a year and she has so little self-respect, she goes along with it. Then she meets the hero and she has so little respect for him that because it’s a summer fling she doesn’t break it off with her ex then either. His reasons for wanting just a summer fling are kept hidden for much of of the story though his backstory is revealed by flashbacks to his courtship of his own ex. With so much energy spent on their respective exes, it makes their own relationship look less committed and less likely to succeed. In the end I had to double speed and just slog to the end, as I really barely cared about these characters or their ultimate weak HEA.
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Rule
- De: CD Reiss
- Narrado por: Mindy Kennedy, Brian Pallino
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Theresa and Antonio. They've been through hell. Antonio has a price on his head for turning his back on a marriage deal, and Theresa has no intention of turning her back on him. They're devoted and strong, ready for anything.... And then someone from Antonio's past reappears. Someone who can give him everything he ever wanted and who can shake them to their very core.
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WARNING - DO NOT MISS THIS AWESOME LISTEN
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 12-01-15
- Rule
- De: CD Reiss
- Narrado por: Mindy Kennedy, Brian Pallino
Disappointing
Revisado: 05-04-23
The first two in this series were boring, feeling like word counting to fill the page. This one added an unforgivable plot device to stretch the conflict to the limits. I never grew to like any of the characters.
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Enchanting Pleasures
- The Pleasures Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Eloisa James
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes the portrait of her betrothed, the perfect Peter Dewland... until she meets his commanding older brother Quill. But it is Peter to whom she has been promised. And how can she possibly transform her voluptuous, outspoken self into the poised gentlewoman Peter requires?
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Emotional roller coaster and not in a good way...
- De RomReader en 05-11-19
- Enchanting Pleasures
- The Pleasures Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Eloisa James
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
So much better than the first in the series
Revisado: 04-06-23
This book is so much better than the first in this series it’s hard to believe they were penned by the same author. It has a few troublesome aspects, including falling on some ugly stereotypes, but the love story feels sweet and genuine. The true affection between the characters and their genuine conflicts feel credible. I liked both main characters and enjoyed watching them fall for each other.
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Midnight Pleasures
- The Pleasures Trilogy, Book 2
- De: Eloisa James
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Eloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine - a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love. To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects an offer of marriage from the dashing, rakish Patrick Foakes in favor of amiable but dull Braddon Chatwin. He may be an earl, but it is Patrick's stolen kisses that sear her lips.
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Fell Flat
- De stolives en 01-11-15
- Midnight Pleasures
- The Pleasures Trilogy, Book 2
- De: Eloisa James
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
Far better than the first in the series
Revisado: 04-05-23
This one is mostly silly misunderstandings, but at times it was sweet. The twin brother makes a much better hero than the atrocious monster we met in the first book in this series. I found this slow moving at times, but cute enough.
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