Brandi Lee

Really Enjoyable Heroine - Inconsistencies in world building

Revisado: 01-04-25

Overall, I found this book funny and relatable, and the female narrator did a stand-out job with the character.

I wish, of course, that it was read more in full-cast. The male actors did not read their lines in the female read chapters (which makes sense for practical recording reasons), but it meant that when they did read their chapters, I found the voices jarring.

In particular, and I can’t believe I’m about to say this because TeddyH is THE BOMB, but he sounded too…casual and kind…for Karen. It just didn’t work for me.

Still, I used a credit to pre-order the second one when it comes out. The female character and narrator are just too much fun for anything else.

Lastly, if you are really bothered by holes or inconsistencies in the world building, this title might not be your jam. I don’t know much about Greek mythology so I can’t speak to that.

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Laughed out loud

Revisado: 04-26-24

I really enjoyed the humor in this one. It was one of the more believable set ups in this kind of trope, and the author is very funny. The narrators also have a good delivery. Problem my favorite Meghan Quinn thus far.

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Laughed so hard and also cried so hard - a perfect story

Revisado: 04-25-24

I am a huge fan of actual duet recordings, and this one was well done.

The only thing I could have asked for more would have been an ensemble cast, because I find it hard to hear the same actors across books for all the main characters. Especially because well-known actors have their own “style” and tend to stick to it. Cozy and Trisha both sound a little too alike to enjoy listening back to back, as far as I’m concerned. Although I know other people really enjoy the predictability of the actors’ voices.

But the writing was great and the acting was great, as well. More than worth a credit!

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Laughed so hard and also cried so hard - a perfect story

Revisado: 04-25-24

I am a huge fan of actual duet recordings, and this one was well done.

The only thing I could have asked for more would have been an ensemble cast, because I find it hard to hear the same actors across books for all the main characters. Especially because well-known actors have their own “style” and tend to stick to it. Cozy and Trisha both sound a little too alike to enjoy listening back to back, as far as I’m concerned. Although I know other people really enjoy the predictability of the actors’ voices.

But the writing was great and the acting was great, as well. More than worth a credit!

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Concise, accessible and yet thorough enough

Revisado: 02-13-24

I listened to this book as a patient who has been diagnosed with a trauma-based dissociative disorder. Over the last several years I have read many books on the topic, including most of those she references. I think she does a good job of highlighting the main points, the connections between them, and translating what that means.

The best part, from the perspective of a patient, is how she normalized and related to the experience of traumatic dissociation with her personal example of her experience of 9-11.

She did focus a lot of Freud, which makes sense because he is the elephant in psychiatry and this book was written for therapists. However, for people who didn’t study him in detail it was maybe too much. (In contrast, the basic psych classes I took talked about him in a historical context, more like the person who discovered the first small pox vaccines that killed some people when administering it. A major leap forward but with a lot of flaws and risks.)

From a totally personal perspective, I felt she described some of the breakthrus I’ve had in my relationship with my therapist and gave them an understanding I didn’t have before. I had an incident in my first 6 months of therapy with my current therapist where she stood up for me and advocated for my care - even though I had also made an error and admitted it. And she did so without my asking her to. It was a relationship experience I had never had before and changed the course of our work together.

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Sugar and spice, low on the angst, just the right plot length

Revisado: 11-28-23

I also really enjoyed that the bdsm was more *natural* than some of the stilted ‘scene’ stories, nor was it an innocent being corrupted or otherwise some kind of connived way of making it ‘okay’. It was just two adults with kinks being kinky. She didn’t explain what a safeword was and thank god for that.

Since it was single POV, you miss some of the male personal development, which I did miss (I prefer dual POV).

I could have gone with a bit more backstory about the other parts of the heroine’s family of origin and how breaking away from some of those toxic situations gave her the perspective to insist on the changes in how he treats her.

But it's one of the things that make it so realistic. People do tend to gravitate to relationships - in work and in romance - where it feels familiar. Often, that means some repetition or echos of family of origin issues. However, in the best cases, it gives the opportunity to see it in a new light, reflect, revise, and heal/grow/change.

A lot of this had to be assumed by the reader that it was happening, which is fine for a genre read. But I would have also enjoyed a bit more psychological in depth shown in the story itself, because the author clearly had that mapped out as part of how they progressed the plot.

The narrator was the narrator. She fine under both names she publishes under, but I've heard so much from her that I'm bored and craving new voices.

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It was fine but not worth listening to twice

Revisado: 07-17-23

The story was fairly predicable, and the character development lacked something. I didn’t really *feel* the chemistry between the characters. Most of the story seemed to happen when each character was by themselves and in their own heads, vs while with the other person or friends/family. The supporting cast was underdeveloped.

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A great addition to the Law School for Everyone series

Revisado: 04-27-23

I have read a few titles in this series, and they are all worthwhile listens. Some cover too much ground in one “course”, and it becomes overwhelming and intimidating. This one stuck pretty close to the topic and was very focused.

If you haven’t learned anything about contract law before, I think some of the connections that he implies wouldn’t be obvious. However, the material is still completely comprehensible without it. If you later learn a bit about contract law, coming back to review this again would give new insights.

Similarly with the matter of state vs federal laws, courts and jurisdiction rules. You don’t have to know about it, because he provides the necessary minimum context, but after listening to a course about it, there is more to be gained by a re-listen.

10/10 would recommend.

FWIW, I listened at 1.25 speed because it was the slowest that didn’t drive me crazy because he’s a semi-slow speaker. It was totally clear and paced well at that speed.

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Well Written and Performed Even Better

Revisado: 02-27-23

I came across this book because I’m presently obsessed with Hollie Jackson. She is such a versatile voice actor - she’s never “just reading”. She’s *performing*.

I’m 100% absolutely certain that the book wouldn’t be half as good except for Hollie Jackson.

However, it’s also a really good romance novella, that has a satisfying plot arch and a HEA.

Rose, who the book is written in first-person, matures emotionally during the story, but not so much that it seems unrealistic. She’s still young and it still shows in how and what she’s preoccupied with. She’s a bit spoiled, has herself as the center of her world, and takes things for granted. Pretty much exactly how you’d expect an 18 year old to be.

I’m not really into the DD/lg thing myself, and I was worried it would be too much invested in that dynamic for me to enjoy. But mostly is was a domestic discipline and spanking story, in terms of kinks.

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It’s a twisted bit of ghost story

Revisado: 02-18-23

I’m not sure what people expected, but it was clearly written to be more like a Brother’s Grimm fairy tale - they aren’t sweet or sexy or kind. They tell Truths about the human experience and you can see yourself in the various characters at different times in your life. It’s uncomfortable, yes - but truth fairy tales have always been.

The way they described what they were doing sometimes was hard to listen to. The full cast, true production audio book medium still has a bit ways to go to find that balance. But it was a very enjoyable listen.

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