Midnight Oath

Tasarov Bratva, Book 1

By: Naomi West

Narrated by: Darcy Stark, Isabelle Turner

My fiancé is screaming at me in public.

I'm used to it. My role here is to look pretty on his arm and to play nice so he doesn't hurt my sick daughter.

What I'm not used to is the man who comes to my rescue. Adrik Tasarov is a tall glass of gorgeous. He's got a jawline that could cut glass and eyes that could melt steel. Best of all: my fiancé is absolutely terrified of him.

So when Adrik asks me to dance, I say yes. When he asks me to do a little more than that, I say it again. Then comes the make-or-break moment. Adrik offers me a fake marriage to get me out of my real one. I say the two little words that seal my fate: "I do."

Little did I know I was signing a deal with the devil. Now, I'm a prisoner in a beautiful mansion. I can have anything I want—except for my freedom.

I have an ace up my sleeve. Something my fake husband doesn't know about. Something that will change everything. His baby in my belly.

Midnight Oath is the first book in the Tasarov Bratva duet from bestselling mafia romantic suspense author Naomi West. Adrik and Emery's story carries on into book two, Midnight Lies.

©2022 Naomi West (P)2023 Podium Audio

Wow!

While the FMC is super annoying (she did not need to be such a b!tch!!), the MMC did make progress during this book. Obviously this is a cliffy bc there’s a book 2. The narrators were good (although I wouldn’t say no to a different/better female narrator) and both had very good voices for each character. I do really like how Adrik really did so much for Isabella (Emory’s daughter) - I just can’t even with Emory’s behavior. The suspense and action rounds out the story and definitely leaves you hanging! Can’t wait for book 2!

Loved all the plot twists.

The plot twists just kept coming. It kept the book interesting. The main character could have been a little less whiny.

I wanted to like it.

I got half way through and couldn’t finish. The female lead character was so so ridiculous and annoying. The narrators were ok but definitely could have used a male narrator with a deeper voice with better ability to add depth/variance.

idk

I struggled to finish this book.... I just think the mc was unnecessarily an a**hole sometimes... I wanted more substance from the MC perspective.... some might love it but I think it would be greater

Marriage

Words are not minced between the characters, promises are given and broken and life is hanging on threats.

DNF - I really did try but there was no finishing this

Ok I tried, I made it almost 8 hours in and just gave up. The FMC is probably the most annoying/bitchy character I've EVER read, hands down. MMC was horrible, didn't even try. There was NO chemistry at all between these characters. I did enjoy the narrators, the voices were great but even they couldn't save this book.

Hated it

No one is that stupid. Especially with her child and knowing that she was accosted. She would be far more apprehensive and reactive to men around her child. This book is hella inconsistent with someone who went through the kind of trauma that she went through. I know from experience

I’ll come back to it

I’ll come back to this when I can’t find anything else to listen to. The narrators are good but I feel like there’s no carrot keeping me going. The story is crazy and is giving me anxiety. This book will make you feel good about your relationship or lack there of. No sane person listening (or reading) this book would want this. This is the craziest Beauty and the Beast story I have ever heard (only he’s hot). Example: 1)he punishes her by locking her in her room with no food for 2 days and does not allow her to see her daughter. 2) She stabs him with a letter opener 3) 6 hours in and she hasn’t been allowed phone or internet almost the whole time. I went to peek at the summary for the next book and it clearly gets no better. I’ll be back…

Hot mess of story

This is a duet, so there is a cliffhanger. The narrators did an excellent job and I especially enjoyed Isabelle Turner's voice.

I just finished the book and I'm pissed that I spent 13+ hours. The MMC is awful. He spends the ENTIRE story threatening people and with the exception of 5 minutes later in the story, these characters displayed zero chemistry. I tried hard to like him because I felt like I could understand the regret and anger he held on to.

The FMC is an absolute idiot. For a single mother, she is incredibly incapable. This is especially true for one that is supposed to have a medically fragile child. There is no way this Mom wouldn't have more medical knowledge or ability to advocate for her child. You develop skills very quickly when you have a child that needs that much care.

Also, the FMC would internally acknowledge danger and then immediately say or do something that went against that. So many times I found myself shaking my head. There was no build up in the relationship - after 13 hours there should have been a spark or something that made me think the next book wouldn't be another dragged out series of issues that could have been cleared up with a simple conversation. I don't mind a rollercoaster story, but this was a train wreck.

Another weird point is that the main characters never talk about birth control...or even consider that she could get pregnant. In the story synopsis, it mentions that she's pregnant, but it wasn't even brought up in the book. I assume she *might* be from all of the sex, but that's it. There are no signs that she even considers it.

I have zero interest in the next book. I also have no desire to look into other books by this author. Don't waste your credit on this one unless you enjoy both main characters feeling like "the victim". This is not a romance book.