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Betty boop narrator distracts from porn with some plot

Revisado: 03-02-25

The should have been strong FMC was very difficult to take serious with a whiney cartoonish voice and the male live interest was even worse! The sex was graphic, frequent, wanted to be kinky but was laughable. The whole thing was cringeworthy. Most of the rest of the series is free with audible membership- I won’t be wasting any more of my life on it.

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Fun, funny fluff, but I HATE Essie’s voice!

Revisado: 02-14-23

I really enjoy Robyn Peterman’s more recent endeavors so I figured I might like her older stuff also. This series is cute and fun. The characters are likable (for the most part), all the men are terrible horn dogs, there is a goodly amount of humor, but I find the action scenes fall flat.
This book in particular, attempted to pull at all the heartstrings of a single mom while also weighing in on the trauma of family issues.
While I liked Abby Craden’s performance as Dima, I have no idea what she was trying to do to poor wolf shifter (from the other books in the series), Essie! The way Essie was read, she sounded like a dragon, with a blown out raspy grungy voice and zero of her wonderful charming southern accent! Although Essie didn’t have a very large presence in this book, between biffing her part and wrecking the already weird cows, it was enough for me to give an otherwise 4-5 star performance 3 stars.

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Meh

Revisado: 11-18-22

I bought the whole series during the summer sale. The story is slow to develop, I’m hoping the later books have more to offer. I found performances AWFUL. The woman’s voice was sort of valley girl trying to be a fallen Angel, as well as grating. The main male character (don’t know how to spell his name- the B devil) sounds pretentious and like a dude you’d want to smack for being so douchey! The other male characters are less revolting - like the performer toned it down. I will listen to the other books because the overall experience wasn’t awful and, I already bought them.

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Fun, fluffy read

Revisado: 08-26-22

I enjoyed this listen. Not a ton of action or romance, but it was fun and pleasant enough. I plan on listening to the next book! Fortunately, no huge cliffhanger - those make me crazy.

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Whiny girl meets Prince... whines some more. The end.

Revisado: 01-10-21

Ugh, just ugh. That’s the first utterance that comes to mind as this book ended and I decided to review it. I really wanted to like this series. I remained hopeful through all 11 hrs and 35 minutes of the first book. Ultimately, it’s drivel. Poorly written, inarticulate, repetitious, fluff with characters as vacuous as the plot. This might be perfect romantic fodder for a twelve year old girl’s imagination, but as an adult, I just couldn’t deal with the whiney female lead whom I found totally immature and obnoxious.
I would also like to rebuke the author for her lack of technical writing skills. Either there’s no such thing as an editor these days or one can literally have ANYTHING published (and recorded onto audiobook) because Rachel Higginson writes at a very basic reading comprehension level and uses the same word multiple times per paragraph, sometimes even within the same sentence!
I would say “at least it was free”, no loss of a credit, however, I did lose 11.5 hours of my life. Hours I will never be able to reclaim. I urge you, if you are older than 15, (and perhaps even if you’re not), find a better quality read. Reckless Magic is a dud.

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Drooling Narrator Wrecked if for me!

Revisado: 10-03-20

I've been waiting to write this review to see if my opinions calm down at all, but they haven', so here goes.
The Stories in this collection, while nothing to write home about, were ok. In full disclosure, I only made it through the first two because the narrator, Lucinda Gainey, was positively atrocious.. I just couldn't listen to one more minute of her! Most of the time, she sounded like she had a mouth full of spittle or drool., I can't explain it but it was NOT a good thing! Also, it sounded from time to time like she yawned, and she pronounced words like "Patchouli" and "Aerolia" very strangely. Nevermind her total inability of executing an accent successfully. She would begin with one (poorly) then slip in and out of it. Ugg. Her voice, towards the end of the second book, grated on my nerves worse than nails on a chalk-board!

"The Wolf the Witch and her Lack of Wardrobe" by Shelly Laurenston was a cute story, but I feel it could have been far more developed. There was a lot of opportunity for this to be a full novel and suffered greatly by being truncated. (For instance, there is a lot of refrence to the magical powers female protagonist Jamie Meacham has, but I feel they are very under explored. Especially the story line about her working to be a "God's Champion". I don't understand why that is even in the book because that story line goes so undeveloped.. In sum, it was a cute story, likeable characters, but too short to really gain any momentum.

"In the Dark" by Cynthia Eden was a hard listen for me. By the time I got to this story, I was mad that "The Wolf, The Witch, and her lack of Wardrobe" was so incomplete and the ongoing drooling by the narrator was making me sick to my stomach but I gave it a chance. It had a weak opening, and from the start, I didn't feel it held much promise. I just feel this story never followed through on the characters. There are hints at what a powerful Vampire Lliam is/has become, and all of his experiences since he went through the change, it touches on Sadie being a shifter/FBI agent extraordinaire, but never goes into the background. and in the end, they both seem sort of love sick and inept. I especially didn't like how weak Lliam came across.

Frustrated with the underdevelopment in the first two stories, and utterly DONE with the disgusting slurping of the narrator and her pathetic attempt at accents (I didn't even want to imagine how she'd butcher a cajun accent!), I didn't even bother with the 3rd novella. Sorry! This collection just didn't do it for me!

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A little Story, A lotta Porn!

Revisado: 10-03-20

I really enjoyed some of Shelly Laurenston's later works (specifically the Call of Crows Trilogy as well as the Honey Badgers Chronicles) so I decided to go back and read some of her earlier works. I was kind of aghast. The Mane Event, simply put, is audible porn. Both of the novellas in this "collection" have severely little plot and rely almost entirely on super graphic sex scenes, most of which have very little set up but just erupt out of nowhere!
I want to be really clear, these sex scenes are nothing like the bodice rippers of yore, with vague or delicate references to genitalia or sex acts. Nope, nope, nope, this is hardcore smut. To the end that my husband stopped by the room in which I was listening, and said, "WOW! That book is really, really VULGAR!". For an, in no way prudish, younger man to feel that way about a book, well... I feel that says it all.

If you want descriptive, lurid, unabashed and repetitious, hardcore sex, this is the read for you. I'm not a prude, but I do like a scintilla of a plot, therefore, it was not the book for me. I will, however, probably continue to read the pride series, SOLELY to establish the characters in the rest of her books, IF I can stand it. Hopefully her writing will mature sooner than later and the books will become more tolerable!

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Misleading Title

Revisado: 04-19-20

"A serial Shagger's Guide to Internet Dating" - by Clive Worth - just stole nearly 6 hours of my life I'll never be able to get back! I'm mad at myself for sticking with it because it's such drivel! Poorly written by an admittedly uneducated, ignorant, inarticulate loser, what could have been a tome of fun and lively stories was a dreary yawn fest by the end of which I just wanted to drill out my ear holes. At first I thought the "author"
(I put that in quotes because I hate to give him a modicum of literary credibility) was writing singularly out of a narcissistic need to pontificate. Early on I viewed this book to be essentially the ruminations and very tall soap box of a deeply uninteresting and very self important, oversexed old creep. I continue to hold that conclusion but as I finished listening, I came to realize that it also serves as an infomercial for this dudes new dating website and a platform for him to trash another dating website that kicked him off. The book purports to be a guide to internet dating. In truth, ninety-nine percent of the read is about this guy's quasi crappy child hood, failed relationships and alcoholism.

I'm sure in life, Clive Worth really believes he's funny and charming and all that, but the fact of the matter is, this book merely highlights that he's not a particularly nice person, often being very shallow and judgmental of women, never having a deep relationship with one. In fact he fancied himself a bully, and while he retold stories of his good ole days as a "naughty boy", I took exception to his musings about how he and his band of fellow young thugs would stalk young women in the dark and have their way with the scared girls. That might sound mildly interesting to some, but allow me to assure you that, the opus is so dry and insufferably poorly written, it pretty much has zero shining moments. No character development. No plot. NOTHING! Even "the funny parts" fall terribly flat. It desperately needs editing but I suspect the editor fell asleep in the first few moments much like I almost did! The atrocious narration by David Angelo does nothing to help the situation! He mis-read words, re-read sentences and paragraphs. An overall weird, awkward and uneasy rhythm made for a horrible narration, I would laugh… if I hadn't paid for this! If I could have given zero stars, I would have.

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