Hexed

Never After, Book 6

By: Emily McIntire

Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer, Erik Bloomquist

Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn't good enough for her parents, and she isn't good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she's cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle's demands. And she doesn't have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her . . . and Venesa soon realizes he's the only one who's ever seen her for her.

There's just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo "Loverboy" Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the northeast. When he's tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn't think twice.

Until he meets his fiancee's cousin.

Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they'll both have to choose what's more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.

Contains mature themes.

©2024 Emily McIntire (P)2024 Tantor

Best one Yet!!!

I loved the character growth so much Vanessa was so raw and funny and her accent was ugh amazing. Enzo was swoon worthy!

Love you out loud

Enzo & Vanessa! 💜
The way there story intertwined with each other from years before they met. I love them. I am a Little Mermaid girl but I always loved Usula. This book certified the fact that I am a villain’s girl. I was obsssesed with Vanessa. A total baddie. Enzo baby the way he feel first but she feel harder. I am hooked with every chapter. When they finally got together. I yelled!!! Favorite book ✨

Excellent Retelling!

Obsessed! Hexed is SO good. I loved all the little nods to The Little Mermaid and add in the mafia aspect I was hooked! Vanessa & Enzo have a story you do not want to miss!

This whole series is a good read with Hooked & Hexed now being my favorites!

This is my first listen from narrators Madeleine Dauer & Erik Bloomquist and they did such a great job bringing this book to life!

Great Dark Romance With A Twist of Little Mermaid

The narration from both narrators was fantastic.
Especially, the male narrator. I loved his accent. Enzo, the main male character, was sexy and entertaining. He had me cracking up. I liked the plot of this book. It was captivating. It was creative how the author loosely took some concepts from The Little Mermaid and made the story her own. The Little Mermaid is my favorite fairytale.

I love it!

One more time an amazing story! Couldn’t put it down! And the little mermaid references are so on point! I really recommend!

The details! Amazing.

There's aren't enough stars to give⭐

I don't know where to begin. Wow. I already loved her other books but this one was absolutely fantastic. Love how she kept some things true to the original story and made her own and it was absolutely amazing. The detail, the twist and turns right when you think you know what's about to happen then another turn. Everything was absolutely fantastic.. the writing and the fact that it kept you on a choke hold the whole time you just don't want to put the book down. of course the spice 🥵 🫶🏽💯The audio was great as well. Absolutely amazing work and I'm looking forward to reading a lot more of her books. She out did herself!💔

She does it again!

Guh, I loved this. I was a little worried with the strong accents initially, but I loved them! A longer book but I was engaged at everyone. Def one of her sweeter stories, no enemies to lovers but my god I loved it.

Enjoyed it!

The book was fun and great. Loved the characters, loved the story. It does get really close to/crosses the cheating/emotional cheating line that I wasn’t super thrilled with but I felt like it walked the line enough that I could ignore it. But for some others that may not be the case.

The narration was great, except that the male narrator you could hear swallow multiple times throughout. It was subtle so not the end of the world, but clearly there. His audio wasn’t as crisp/clear either, but it wasn’t bad. It was fun hearing a southern accent.

Overall it was a fun listen and I enjoyed it. 5 stars for a quick enjoyable read with good characters and plot twists that didn’t fully see coming.

My favorite favorite of the series

This book is soooo amazing! The little mermaid was my fav movie as a child and I never thought a dark romance with that theme would become one of my favorite reads of 2024. Enzo and Venesa are my all time favorite love story. Emily wrote Enzo’s love for V so amazingingly I can’t even describe how much irs seemed into my soul. Then there’s the narration. This is my first time listening to to both of them and holy Jesus - soooo passionate and emotional you can’t help but get sucked in unable to turn it off and go to bed! I’ll be seeking out Erik B for my stories narrated by him! My only complaint is how I’ll ever find another book that compared. Going to go get a physical copy for my shelf of favs! Thank you Emily for this amazing story and series. I’ve become a fan for life.

swallowing noises.

The Story was great but the male narrator kept swallowing and the mic picked it up. If it was just a few times I would have thought it was part of the acting, but it was a lot!