Sam

great story, meh narrative, terrible production

Reviewed: 03-09-25

I love Kristen Ashley stories. This one had great potential. The story was great. The narration not so much. But I really wanted to hear February's story after having heard the Colorado Mountain series (awesome story and even better narration!!!). If it hadn't been for the Colorado series, I would have skipped this series altogether just cause of the editing and narraation.
Anyway, Liz Thompson didn't give much personality or differentiation to the characters through their voices and the editing was terrible. lags between sentences and sometimes between phrases. Toward the end, I heard her take a swallow of something a number of times. Too bad.
I am really glad I persevered! It really was a great book!!!

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Great story! Great narration!

Reviewed: 09-22-24

Everything about this book was wonderful. It was really long. You got to really get into the characters. The narration was fabulous and the story was great. It was sweet. It was sexy. It was deep it had everything.

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Good story bad narration’s

Reviewed: 09-20-24

I really enjoyed the storyline. But the male narrator really distracted from the story. And then given the buildup of arrows character in the previous stories just didn’t work for me. I didn’t even like the sex scenes.

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Charming, endearing, sweet, funny touching

Reviewed: 09-15-24

This book was engaging from the first moment. The twists and turns. The characters were awesome. I loved Ell Potter’s narration.
This book made me laugh and smile and feel her pain and surprises. I loved loved loved this book.

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Great characters, story and narrator

Reviewed: 09-15-24

Niki Patel is a wonderful narrator. I love the story. The depth of the characters and the explanation of feelings I didn’t want to stop listening to it and I encourage everyone to do the same.

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Good continuation of the story

Reviewed: 09-09-24

I did not like that Savannah peach Wood does not do a good male voice.

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Narrators make the book in Audio-FAILURE!!

Reviewed: 06-02-24

One author. All the same characters. A million narrators to choose from. WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE SAME ACCENTS? No spoilers. In all the other books, JJ is a well-spoken Brit. In this book - the one about JJ - we have 3 narrators... Shane East does great voice accents. Evelyn Rose has a cockney lower class Brit accent and says the word "palm" as parm! Seriously??? And lastly, Wen Ross can't do an English accent at all.
One of the earlier books I couldn't even listen to because the narrator made the Italian Mafia guy sound like a New Jersey thug. It is so painful.
I feel like L Steele is writing by formula using similar dialogue, descriptors, behaviors, even dick size. She doesn't seem to own the end result of the audiobook either. And where is her editor? Didn't anyone want to suggest changing some things up? She really had great potential! And it wouldn't have taken a lot of work to make the books 5 stars all the way through.
It pains me that I am supporting her by purchasing all these books. However, I like the characters and want to know where the stories end up. I just feel she has potential to be a really good writer and early on in her career she has taken the lazy and easy way through. I guess you do get paid the same money whether the story is good or great.
I am grateful I got 8 books for one credit in a box set.

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Repeated dialogue & actions, good narrators

Reviewed: 05-24-24

I have listened to a lot of her books lately and I am compelled to keep listening because I want to know more about the next characters in line. I found this series to be a bit more original, and the narration was great. A couple of complaints: too much repetitive dialogue and behaviors from previous books. These are not character traits for everyone in the mafia or billionaires. I consider this to be lazy writing on her part.
However, WARNING - the next book in the series A Very Mafia Christmas is the absolute WORST narration I have ever heard in the 1000+ books I have listened to in the last 5 years. Evelyn Rose made the Italian guy who spent part of his youth in Los Angeles sound like a thug from New Jersey. She clearly didn't listen to any other books for background, or the other narrator! I already returned the book,

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Extremely weak story premise

Reviewed: 05-09-24

Hated the stupidity of the storyline. It had potential. Spoiler alert. Billionaire businessman are not this stupid or they’re not billionaires for long.

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Painful story… can’t fix stupid

Reviewed: 04-09-24

I have really enjoyed everyone, Meghan, Quinn’s books, but this one. The male character needed to be put out of his misery And mine too. I get a good heart, but presentation. Hard to imagine how he got to the position he was at to begin with, in the company much less all the rest of it and what a whiner. Waa waa waa.
I kept thinking any minute he was going to be a man. And why he ever won the great girl is beyond me. Story doesn’t track. Hated the character. By the time the backbone arrives, so much damage has been done he should not be able to repair it. I feel like four hours of the book could’ve been removed.

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