Adrian Alexander

Aussie Cowboys, Need I Say More?

Revisado: 12-04-15

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I’ll be the first to admit my bias, I love Cowboys, men with accents, and men with stutters (idk why but I find a stutter to be super cute and endearing), so Inherit the Sky had me hooked from the word go. But beyond those things, it’s honestly just a great story. And it’s wonderfully well written, which I’m learning with the more erotica that I listen to is a remarkable rarity.

The performance is good, but I’d like the reader to work on his pacing and delivery a bit more. There are odd pauses in places I don’t think they’re needed and it can make it sound like the characters are unsure when the opposite is the case. When I turned the volume up, it sounded like he was swallowing at those moments, like maybe he was taking a drink of water? But either way it was jarring at times. But that’s the only complaint I have since I loved the voices and the accents. As an American, I can only guess at the accuracy of the accents and I’ve seen others complaining about the pronunciation. I can’t remark on that beyond saying it sounded fine to my untrained ears.

Either way, the highlight here is in the writing. I was astounded by how much the Aussie dialogue went away from cliches. There isn’t a “mate” after every piece of dialogue and it feels authentic. And so does Cain’s stutter. You can tell the author really thought about when he would vs when he might not stammer and it’s so consistent throughout. I loved the attention the those fine details. It made me root for these character and love this book. I generally just wait for credits to get books on audible, but I can already tell I’m going to rush to buy the next book in this series.

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Men do actually grow up, ladies

Revisado: 12-01-15

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The biggest problem I have with this book, beyond the constant adverbs, I mean come on not every action or dialogue tag needs an adverb, and as a healthy bit of advice, when someone says something "quietly," they're whispering. So say "he whispered" instead of "he said quietly" and it improves your story tenfold. No, the biggest problem I had is the general feeling that the writers know nothing about men relating to one another or to people they have crushes on beyond what they learned in grade school. Every interaction before the two characters have sex is just sniping and something that I think is intended to be banter. It's the age old idea that when a boy likes you, he punches you. No, that actually does go away at some point, and I wish the authors knew enough about men to know that. Some playful back and forth is fine, and it's expected really. But literally almost EVERY SINGLE WORD they say to each other is some kind of snipe or insult and it's not cute. No one actually talks like that. Everything here from the adverbs in the narration to the dialogue itself would have benefited from actually being read aloud during the editing process and it feels clear the writers couldn't bother.

It would be fine if the sex were actually hot or more plentiful, but even that's bogged down in crappy and unbelievable characterization, horrible writing, and a poor sense of the space the characters occupy. I was often left wondering "Wait, where is he now? Oh wait, he got out of the shower? When did that happen?" I wanted to like this, but the horrible writing took me totally out of the story and left me unimpressed.

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Performance

Revisado: 10-07-15

I think James could have varied the voices a bit more and slowed down in sections. There were multiple places where I didn't know who was talking and was lost as to what exactly was going on. But other than that I liked it a lot.

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