Can't Help Falling

A Novel

By: Cara Bastone

Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell

The more you resist,

the deeper you’ll fall

Serafine St. Romain doesn’t need her psychic powers to know she’s no longer in Tyler Leshuski’s good graces. True, she did tear him to pieces when he asked her out, accusing him of being shallow and selfish. Despite the energy crackling between them, the gorgeous sports writer is a no-strings, no-kids kind of guy. And Serafine, raised in the foster system, intends to be a foster parent herself. She won’t compromise that dream, even for a man as annoyingly appealing as Tyler.

In a simpler world, Tyler would already have gotten Serafine out of his system. For him, women equal fun. Not this kind of bone-deep, disconcerting desire. Life gets even more complicated when he becomes the guardian of his much younger sister. Suddenly, he’s way out of his depth. Serafine’s the only person who can connect with Kylie. He can’t jeopardize that for a fling.

But maybe...just maybe...he’s finally ready to risk everything on forever.

©2020 Cara Bastone (P)2020 Harlequin Audio

A good listen overall

I agree with other reviews that the narrator does not do well with the voices of women and children. He went too strong on accents, BUT the the two main characters are good. The emotion the narrator portrays at the end is excellent. All prior annoyances are forgiven by the end of the book. It’s a sweet story.

Why change narrators!!

First of all, the story is good. I always enjoy Cara Bastone books. But in the first book we have already gotten to know all of the characters pretty well. They felt like friends. Then the second book with a whole new narrator, completely shreds that. Why? If the characters are the same then the narrator should also stay the same. It took me a long while to get used to these “new” character voices. It was pretty jarring at first though especially since it felt like Wayne was yelling at me the whole first half of the book.

Never again, Wayne!

Awful narration! I was on a road trip and went straight from book one to this horrid piece of narration. 10 grueling hours! I just couldn’t take it anymore after 5 hours. Rarely will I ask for a refund but it’s a must on this one.

Oof - The Narrator

I read the reviews for the first book and since some of the reviews described the sex scenes as raunchy when I truly thought it was done classily and just normal sex between two people who waited a long time before they 'did it' - I decided to take a chance on ignoring all of the reviews on this narrator. Buuuut they were right. Regardless of what borough or city they are supposed to come from ... who SOUNDS like these characters in real life? Sounds like the narrator really doesn't like women or children if this is how he thinks they sound.

voice from narrator

His voice was spot on for the mature men but hard to swallow for the females and children. If you can look past that its a sweet romance.

Fun listen

While I really enjoyed the story I preferred Patrick Zeller from the first book of the series.

Just wow!

I love Cara Bastone and wasn’t sure how the narration would go with a male narrator only.
I was pleasantly surprised! The narration and 3rd party view was great. The change in voices, intonation and emotion was palpable. Definitely a must listen to AGAIN!
Cara Bastone’s imagery and analogies were amazing! A book with every emotion and real laugh out loud moments!
Loved it

loved the story

I loved the story, but if I didn't know Bastone's stories were so good I would have quit listening the first chapters in. I didn't like the narrator at all. He had very bad accents, very poor women's voices, and ended many sentences too bluntly, even for a New Yorker.

The narrator kills it.

I almost gave up on this story so many times bc of the narrator. Glad I didn’t, but man that was rough.

Story is cheesy. Narrator a whole box of Velveeta.

This narrator's idea of a New Orleans accent is Matthew McConaughey with a side of lisp. It was honestly unbearable. I found his interpretation of the story to be over the top and his interpretation of the characters complete caricatures.

Then the story on top of that is just not very believable. I'd get into it more, but I just don't have any more energy to expel on this nonsense. Preferred book 1, but that also had its issues.