Promise Me Not

Boys of Avix, Book 2

By: Meagan Brandy

Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Chase Brown

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

She lost her first love.

I'd give it all to be her second ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had one dream.

Go to college with my best friends, earn a starting position on a division one team, and hear my name announced to the world come draft day.

The path was clear, and things were falling in place perfectly.

Until she showed up.

I never meant to fall for my friend’s little sister and by the time I realized I had, it was too late.

I am a man in love with a girl … who is in love with someone else.

But I can’t compete with a ghost, and her heart was buried along side the boy she gave it to. The father of her unborn son.

Instead of fighting for something she’s unable to give, I do my best to be her friend. But then her little man comes along and changes everything.

She says I should walk away, focus on my love for football, but I can’t because what she doesn’t understand is I have a new dream now.

One that begins and ends with them.

Promise Me Not is the second interconnected stand-alone in the universe of Say You Swear.

©2024 Meagan Brandy (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

5 Heartbreakingly Beautiful Stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book. THIS BOOK. Holy Hannah, be prepared to feel it all. Meagan did such an amazing job developing a back story, unraveling a very emotional and in depth storyline and providing amazing character development. You really get to know and love them all. The audio narration was excellent, loved both narrators. Told in Dual POV.

I love the first book and how close & meshed this group of family and friends are. It makes you want to be part of their circle. She gives you the opportunity to know and love the side characters as well as the main. I fell in love with our loyal protector Mason in Say You Swear and fell head over heels in this book.

I adored Mason & Payton’s story. And cried through almost all of it. It’s filled with a lot of loss and angst. And Meagan will rip your heart out and then carefully put you back together again and stitch you up, at the end. But that scar - that beautiful scar which is this book will stay with you forever. Their journey is not as easy one, but so well worth it.

And Chase, well I thought it was going to be impossible for me to like him again. Even throughout most of this book. But he does redeem. I can’t wait for more of this gang. This book really hits the friends to lovers, found family, possessive/protective hero, love after loss and slow burn tropes. Highly recommend.

I absolutely loved this book

Such a great book, I haven’t read a book by her that I haven’t loved.

Love the Avix U Series

Mason's POV was wonderful, to understand who he is and what is important to him. On multiple occasions while reading, he made my heart melt and I absolutely adore him. Payton's character has been through so much in such a short period of time. She is faced with navigating grief and heartbreak, becoming a new mother and supporting her son, all while experiencing the conflicting emotions of love after loss. I admired her strength to try to figure out how to move forward on her own as a young woman and in a world full of uncertainty. They both struggle to communicate with each other and parts of the story are devastating. But some parts are beautiful; the relief that love always has a way of healing and when times are tough, better days are coming. As always with Meagan Brandy's books, I didn't want the book to end and I hope we see more of them in future books.

Promise me not

I have mix feelings about this book. I like it and it’s a great job in the emotional roller coaster with. But not has hard like Say you swear, Noah and Ari’s story. I do love the found family these young characters are surrounded by. That they have their support by them. I am glad to see new narrators names being added to the mix. Not that I don’t mind hearing the ones I am familiar with, it’s just great to hear others representing their ideas of how the character would sound like. Anyways, I adore this author and would highly recommend this series so far.

Expectations were too high.

I think my expectations might have been set a little too high. I absolutely loved it say you swear and I think that is a hard book to come off of. I got the audiobook because it was on sale. I don’t think this is one You really should listen to on audio. The female narrator I would probably like in some other setting, but for this character who is at most 19, the female narrator sounds like an older woman. The voice just doesn’t match the character. As for the male narrator, I felt his pacing was weird, and you could audibly hear him, swallowing and mouth breathing throughout, and it really distracted from the storyline. Also, with the dual timeline, it was very difficult to keep track of which timeline you were in while you were listening to it. At least with the book you could take a quick peek to remind yourself which timeline you’re in. Say you swear, was a spin off of the fumbled heart series and if you have not read that then all of the characters from the fumbled heart series coming in is confusing. As for the book, keep your expectations low and you might be pleasantly surprised as for the audio, I don’t recommend it.

Woe is Me 😒

I LOVED Say You Swear! Noah Riley is the perfect man. But this book was VERY frustrating! If you like miscommunication, secrets, and a martyr, this is the book for you! I hated the FMC. There’s 38 chapters in this book and it took her till ch 36 to realize she was an idiot. The martyr situation was exhausting- I loathe when people do the “woe is me, it’s better for you if we’re not together” bs! Tell them your baggage and let THEM decide if they want to deal with it. If they love you, it’s likely they’ll gladly carry that with for you. I don’t enjoy this trope at all, I love angst- again I loved SYS. But I can’t do 95% of the book where she plays victim. It’s just annoying and redundant!!!!!
*Chase was a good guy in this book. I hated him in SYS, but you get to see his good side here. I’m looking forward to his book as long as it’s not miscommunication or martyr trope. I hated how Peyton used him as a crutch and cause issues between him and Mason. I don’t blame Chase at all, he didn’t even know what was going on. I blame her!

Mason

This book is perfection! Casting was perfection and I loved every second. Mason and Payton’s story is one made of misery. Connecting with someone new after a great loss is difficult but when you love as deeply as Mason does, there’s no running away.

hit and miss…?

i loved Say You Swear, one of my top favorite romances ever! i was so eager and excited for Mason and Payton’s story but it was… not great. The nickname was awful, the passion was lacking, the drama was forced and repetitive, and the pace was dragging. I was expecting more push and pull, more pining, more more more! the back and forth duo timeline was confusing and only added to the dislike. we saw mason start to get closer to payton in SYS, but this one in PMN felt out of character for the mason we knew in SYS. the narrators were freaking fantastic though, they made the story more enjoyable and endurable.

Too much angst, not enough love

I loved the story, don’t get me wrong. But the all the interruptions and angst got tiresome. I needed more love and future than just the last half hour. Payton was so frustrating. Too unbalanced with the angst and love.

Disappointed

I’ll start off by saying the narrators were fantastic! Erin and Chase did amazing!!!

I thought I would love this! SYS was a top read for me. Unfortunately this story missed the mark for me. Payton’s lack of communication got old quickly. She literally ran from every conversation she had with Mason So much time was spent in the past and the current timeline got lost along the way. Mason deserved better.