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Why is it so long?

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-06-25

I’m not sure why it’s nearly nine hours when it felt like things could’ve been wrapped up pretty quickly after June’s first participation. Why did we have conflict after Ray when we’d already come to terms with and accepted his condition and the probable cause of acceleration much earlier when it did absolutely nothing for the tail end of the secondary plot we were attempting to close? June was pretty annoying after a while, and Blu wasn’t… consistent? I’m not sure how to describe it, but I couldn’t wait to get the last third of the book out of the way.

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Cheesy and fun!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-08-25

This is a fun “quickie” in the Marchesi universe!

Tom’s a (classic) naive mark for Vinnie’s plan that gets a little too caught up in it all. It’s short and… well, super dirty (and I love that for me), but also still sweet! It is extra cheesy in the end, which always makes me slightly embarrassed for everyone involved in the moment, but it’s a companion piece I’ll read more than a few times.

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Atticus and Jericho are my OTP.

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-08-25

4.5 ⭐️

This book is my most comforting comfort read/listen. I really enjoy the relationship between Jericho and Atticus, with all the little moments that create them. I’m not sure what it is about this couple, but I don’t think I’ll ever read enough of them.

The writing is great, as well as the relationship-building, but the plot definitely got lost partway through because I’ve listened to this at least four times a week for the last three months, and I still can’t quite tell you why some things are said or done. Honestly, that would normally kill me, but moments like the television and spreading out murder weapons within reach so the other wouldn’t have to stretch too far swept that feeling under the rug.

I’ll recommend Moonstruck to everyone and, if I had anyone to gush about MM books to irl, I’d never shut up about it.

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It’s an excellent listen!

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-08-25

Corbin is the sweetest baby in the entire world, and I love him so much because what do you mean this precious boy only wants his family’s respect? What do you mean he feels like he doesn’t pick things up as quickly, and Beau made him feel better about himself? He’s the absolute cutest, the most precious, the babiest baby to ever grace Silvia Violet’s literary realm. Corbin just wants to be seen by the world. (Beau, of course, has perfect vision.)

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Good as a standalone; a go-to comfort listen.

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-27-24

Chris Chambers offers an engaging and emotional performance to one of my favorite comfort reads. I was already a fan of his narrations, but *that* scene near the end made certain I’ll creep on everything Chris Chambers is involved in now.

Anyway, Kiki Burrelli wrote a beautiful love story through David and Cy. Despite Cy’s attitude toward David in the beginning, he offers David bits of freedom and the respect the young witch deserves throughout the entire novel, with patience as Cy’s foundation. This is the only novel in this (or any related) series that I’ve read; while some of the larger details from previously written novels of the series are a bit difficult to keep straight at first, Kiki Burrelli provides enough description that the reader isn’t left in the dark just because they haven’t read any others, making this is good standalone novel, imho.

5 stars, all around.

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Excellent narrator! Engaging characters.

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-28-24

I really enjoy Liam DiCosimo’s narrations! The smooth voice they use for Adam is my favorite, but I love that they gave each of the characters his own voice—a rasp here, a growl there—rather than just phoning it in.

The storyline is engaging, though pretty predictable once the mutual stalking is completed, but I’ve found myself returning to both novel and audiobook as a strange sort of comfort ritual.

Noah is a haunted boy with fire in his veins and emotional support vodka in his belly. Adam is a pressure cooker of blind rage and unhealthy obsession. They’re broken and jagged glass shards that fit with tiny pieces missing, but they’re mostly whole together. I love their unhealthy relationship. I’m not intimately familiar with any of the medical diagnoses the author tosses out in this book, so I can’t give an honest answer as to whether they’re portrayed accurately or not.

(Liam DiCosimo really is a shining star for narration, in my opinion.)

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Wonderful narrator and found-family dynamic!

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-28-24

I think the final confrontation could have been more detailed, but the characters were very engaging and fulfilled my age gap and “mafia men” needs. That said, the plot had no real wrap-up; the note at the end says things will continue through the Silver Oak Pack, so I’m assuming there will be more answers eventually.

Though I’m not certain I’ll read about a new pack to get the loose ends tied, I enjoyed the characters and the mob boss vibes with shifters. I’m a softy and a sucker for protective older men, so it scratched that itch very well.

I think that the author saying this can be read as a standalone is stretching it, just a bit. I’m only partway through the first Kincaid Pack novel, so I haven’t gotten to whatever happens with the witches and Rick and Quentin that gained Amato his favor, but I’m not sure I would’ve been able to follow along as well with some of the scenes if I didn’t have that minor prior knowledge of Rick’s pack and Kai. I wish this had found my eye first so I could give a better view of the “standalone” claim.

Overall, it was enjoyable, despite the plot not fully circling around with full reasonings and such. I’m not a fan of pulling plots over into other series, but I understand that they’re all interconnected, so it’s fine, yet frustrating.

I’d have rated it five stars, even without the story’s main conflict resolution, if I’d just been given more details about the final “fight” and the Seer, rather than a fade-to-black instigation and “he said you wouldn’t be here” once the mid-baddie was pinned.

(Kirt Graves’ voice can have all five stars.)

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No real payoff.

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-30-24

I felt that there wasn’t really any conflict to flesh things out; I suppose waiting for the final vote could be considered conflict, but I had thought Tank’s suspicions from the beginning of the novel would lead to a confrontation payoff after a return home, but the author seemingly glosses over it in the epilogue by saying he and the people involved had “made up”? It was very anticlimactic (to me) after the slight emphasis Tank’s POV had put onto the idea—a small red herring to keep the reader invested, I suppose. (It annoyed me, honestly.)

This is part of a series, so perhaps it all comes back around and together eventually; as a standalone, it’s a mostly uninteresting storyline with no real confrontations and an unbearably annoying main character in CJ that offers a level of secondhand embarrassment similar to Christina Aguilera’s bewigged character in Burlesque. The narrator really grated on my nerves through ALL of CJ’s POV chapters (I’m not sure if I think CJ is annoying because of this or because that’s what he is), though I very much enjoyed when he wasn’t using whatever tone and attitude he adopted with those. (His “Tank voice” is gorgeous.)

Anyway, if you really want something to get immersed in with a confrontational payout in the end, this isn’t what I would recommend for you, though I really enjoyed the author’s characterization of Tank. If you’re interested in a book lacking drawn-out conflict and a decent level of spice, then I’d say “go for it.”

(I’ll add that I did really like Six and his relationship to the main couple; I was interested in his character from the moment he was introduced, so I’m going to read his story—book two in the series. I’m hoping Ollie is a more likable character to me and that something will actually happen in the end, considering the premise of the book, rather than a hand-waved “all is well” moment.)

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