Ground Zero

Zero Hour, Book 1

De: Aimee Nicole Walker

Narrado por: Tristan James

Heat, humidity, and homicide are things veteran Detective Sawyer Key expects to encounter on his first day with the Savannah Police Department, but the hostile reception from his new partner catches him by surprise. Sawyer isn't a stranger to heartache and recognizes that Royce Locke is a wounded man who's reeling from a devastating loss. Relentless and patient in all things, Sawyer is determined to make the new partnership work.

Savannah, Georgia, is known for her quirky people, oak trees draped in Spanish moss, and antebellum architecture. Beneath the Southern charm and hospitality, festering hatred and violence is soaring with the summer temperatures. Locke and Key find themselves at the epicenter when their first case involves the death of a former shock jock who appears to be the victim of vigilante justice.

Opposites in nearly every way, the two detectives set aside their differences to take back their city and restore law and order. From this reluctant truce, an intense attraction grows that will either tighten or shatter their tenuous bond. The fuse is lit, the clock is running, and the zero hour is upon them. Ticktock.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Aimee Nicole Walker (P)2020 Tantor

Two cops with a heavy past

This book is just excellent and the narration by Tristan James amazing. I recommend greatly!

Ground Zero

This is one of my favorite series and I was so excited that it was going to be on audible. Unfortunately this narrator just didn’t work for me. His male voices all sound the same as does his female voices which don’t sound like female voices. There’s a lot of characters in the series and he just doesn’t seem to have the range needed to make this enjoyable. I highly recommend reading the books though be i they’re fantastic!

LOVED IT

I loved every minute of this book. Great read. More of these two guys please.

Omg yes!

This made me so happy I loved it! Great story and great audio! I can't wait for the next one!

Great storyline

As usual ANW writes an outstanding book. Characters you love and ones you might have to learn to love. Great storyline and I loved the side characters. Sawyers mom was fantastic. Who doesn’t want a mom like that.
Narrator is good. I wish there was more range in character voices.

Nice and cosy

like the story, the narration is easy to listen to.
i recommend it to anyone who likes an enemy to lovers cosy crime book.

Wonderful

What an amazing read!!! I adored everything about this book. It’s a bit more somber than what I’m used to from Aimee’s books, although there are some humorous moments. Both of the main characters are dealing with loss...Sawyer(Key) is dealing with the death of his husband and Locke(Royce) is dealing with the death of his partner. Locke is confusing at times, his past and issues remain a mystery for most of this book, although there is some light shed towards the end. I enjoyed the investigations that went on during the story. I was a little disappointed with the end of the big conflict though. This is a great slow burn story. Highly recommend this one!

solid 4 stars

Would I listen to it again: yes ✔
Did the story keep me engaged: yes ✔
Was I invested in the characters: yes ✔

📖 Story comment: Good pace, entertaining story, interesting characters.
It took me a while to warm up to Locke, but Sawyer's character was strong and interesting enough to carry the story for me. Overall i'm glad I stuck with it, because i've listened to all three books in this series (plus the Sinister in Savannah spin-off) back to back and enjoyed them all.

🎧 Narrator comment: Tristan James can be a narrator you either enjoy or don't. Personally I love him, I go through phases where he's just what I need in a narrator. I enjoyed his reading of this series and the Sinister in Savannah Series spin-off and will happily listen to them again.

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📌 Where does it fall on my personal scale? 7

• 1 not my thing • 2 didn't like the narration • 3 didn't keep my attention • 4 was good, but once was enough • 5 enjoyed it • 6 will listen again if i'm in the mood for the narrator • 7 goes on the "re-listen" list • 8 kept me up past bed-time • 9 recommended to family/friends • 10 own it in multiple formats • 11 keep a copy with me at all times
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Fabulous first book in a great extended universe!

I listened to Ground Zero last month and loved it! I finished the trilogy, listened to the spin-off trilogy (Sinister in Savannah,) and I just finished the Matrimony and Mayhem trilogy follow-up with Sawyer and Royce. I love all of these books but I am restarting Ground Zero at the moment to re-live the beginnings of this fabulous love story, the moments that are cringe, funny, sad and heart melting, not to mention spicy. I have a feeling that all of these books will become frequent listens and reads for me because the characters are so fantastic and I love seeing so many appear in their own stories. I can't wait for a few more spin-offs to reach audio so I can buy them and listen.

Very Nice

I enjoyed this a lot. The story is believable and the dialog feels natural with just the right amount of being larger than life.

Lately I've been irked a bit by how much gratuitous sex there is in M/M books. Natural and understandable but it gets old if one has a normal sex life. I get it that a lot of people are reading the genre for vicarious thrills. In this book the sex flows with the story, helps you understand the characters better and how they're responding to each other, I didn't feel like fast forwarding or feeling annoyed that the author is just stringing together a series of cut and pasted sex scenes with whatever the story is.

Another thing I seriously like about this is the narrator is clearly paying attention to the story and isn't just drifting off and reading whatever is said with the same 'narrators voice'. This is getting more rare in gay audiobooks, especially with the popular authors with sexy voices who sound the same in every book. After you've heard several it starts to al run together (for me) so the fact that the narrator is so in synch in this made it especially enjoyable.

So thanks very much! Nice work all around