Ready or Not

Assurance Security, Book 2

By: Jillian West

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen, Michael Gallagher

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Vale Reed finally found a pack of trustworthy men to build a life with, but chaos threatened to upend the safety she thought she'd found.

Time is ticking away on her pregnancy, and everything feels out of control with Andrew still on the loose. Not to mention Mercer's family is in town, and with his inheritance hanging in the balance, they can't stay hidden on the compound forever.

Vale's pack rallies around her, dead set on keeping her and the baby safe, but bad guys are more dangerous than good men.

After all, they don't have lines they won't cross.

Ready or Not is part two of a duet and ends with a happy ending.

©2024 Jillian West (P)2024 Podium Audio

another amazing Auto Book

I loved reading and owning the books. I was even more happy with the auto book. I found moments being more funny and heart felt than when I read them myself. well done with the voice actors.
I do we get Lake and Rangers book in Auto soon.

An excellent performance!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
>>>>> She’s sinfully gorgeous and too damn sweet for her own good, but that just means I get to be her monster.

I love everything about this duet! Ready or Not is such a great conclusion to Vale and her pack’s story. We get the same sweet and protective Alphas from book one, plus second chances and redemption, action and suspense, and one cute baby girl.

After the surprise revelations that closed out Not Ready, I was chomping at the bit for this second part. It was well worth the wait. I fell even more in love with Holt, Bishop, and Mercer, and even came to love Cooper. Give me all the cinnamon roll characters for my own harem!

Vale spends most of this book pregnant (including all the good and bad bits) with on-page depictions of childbirth and its “lovely” aftermath. Like before, the Alphas do an excellent job reminding her how beautiful they find her, how much she is cherished, and how excited they are to meet their daughter. It has all the good vibes!

This is a fast-burn and very spicy why-choose romance with the goodness of OVs – scenting, nesting, slick and knotting, and bonding (no heats, as Vale is already pregnant). The men love everything about her, baby belly and all.

Ready or Not is part two of the Assurance Security Duet and must be read in order.

I highly recommend this OV duet (and anything else written by Jillian).

Genre: Contemporary Omegaverse Romance
Tropes/Features: Marriage of convenience, second chance/redemption, hurt/comfort, scent matches/fated mates, protective vigilante alphas, single mother, touch starved omega, pregnancy trope, on-page delivery, bonding, age gaps, OV elements, stalker, one-night stand, suspense & danger
POV: Multiple 1st Person POV
Relationship Type: Why Choose MFMMM, fast burn, very spicy
Book Type/Ending: Part two of Assurance Security Duet, HEA
TW/CW: Available in book

Fan-Freaking-tastic!

This is one of my favorites by Jillian West. This duet is so incredible. The way she is able to write characters and story lines just sucks you in and you can’t put them down. This is no exception. You are both on the edge of your seat for parts of it, chuckling at others, ready to tear up, and by the end your heart is glowing. The amazing narrators take this incredible book to new heights and never fail to disappoint! Don’t sleep on this duet!

Get Ready For All This Audio Goodness ✨

I’m a little later getting this review done than I wanted to be, but I finally got it squeezed in lol. It was well worth it too. This duet is one of my favorites of Jillian’s, and a lot of that is because I just adore Bishop. His care of Vale in this story was just top tier alpha protectiveness at its finest 🙌🏻 Getting to hear him brought to life by Michael in the audiobook for part 1 gave me so much life, and now getting to hear him again…ughhh, you have no idea lol. You add in the other guys, Holt, Cooper (our newest contender for Vale’s heart), and Mercer with his delicious accent, and you have a feast for your ears that Michael more than delivered on! And just like in the 1st book, Vanessa portrayed Vale’s personality, as well as her emotions, so perfectly. This will definitely be on my list of audiobooks that I listen to over & over again 🙌🏻💖

Loved. It

This is my favorite duet !! I love Jillian’s books and I know I always say this one is favorite but that’s because I love them all! Great storyline amazing characters and the narrators did amazing.

Best ending

I am in love with this book. This author did amazing and the sex is so freaking hot good God 👍 I have to give it to the narrators they brought this book to life.

Long waited

I LOVE the end to this series. I absolutely am obsessed with the series and I can not wait until the next two books come out and who will be in them. Book 1&2 are absolutely worth it! Book 1 will get you sooo hooked and leave you on a heavy cliffhanger, then book 2 sweeps in and cleans it all up for you! Not really spicy to me, I would say maybe 🌶️🌶️.5/5. Narrators: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It’s cool just ehh

So there is a part of me that was like ohhh plot twist I love it but as it went on I realized I was hoping it was go this way. I was shocked by Kate but even that was kind of like oh that’s it, cool and abruptly done by the looks for the other books attached to this series she doesn’t even get her own book. Then this build up of the action coming even a teaser of her being able to defend herself and it wasn’t even anything. This was a classic case of you could have put it all in one book but stretched it out added unnecessary bed time scenes. I will say I do like the way the author accurately wrote how we moms nest. Yes future moms it can hit like that and be super weird and your spice may be standing back like that confused, my husband was lol. I’d say the healing after isn’t actually that bad, both kids and I was walking the next day. I will say that pushing on the stomach thing was fine after my second child (natural way of coming out) but after having a C-Section with my first child that nurse pushing was as pain as they said in the book and she had the audacity to try to be like it shouldn’t be a 7 when I told her my pain level. So I’ll give it to the author for slight authenticity in that aspect, she either had kids or did her research. On to the performance. It got weird with the voice actors. Maybe it’s just me but for some reason the guy doing the girl voice during the fun times always makes me cringe, I mean occasionally the girl doing the guy during those parts can be kind of weird too but maybe I just listened to so many books where the girl reads the whole thing so I’m used to it, idk. They were good but the overall performance could have been better had they switched out for voices for the different genders.

Swooning

📚 Not Ready & Ready or Not by Jillian WestTropes:
Omegaverse, Pregnant Touch Starved Omega, Damsel in Distress, Forced Proximity, Fake Marriage-Age gap, Morally Grey MMCs, He Falls First, Hurt & Comfort, Ratings: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.5
Review:
Swoon that’s ending! I’m a huge fan of Jillian West so of course this was another off the charts amazing audiobooks. The story had it all. FMC pregnant and an omega. Then something happens and she meets the alpha she has been in-love with for over 2 years and his 2 friends that are also alphas. This story had me feeling all the emotions, happy, sad, excited, nervous, and is definitely swoon worthy. I loved the FMC and I don’t know if i could pick my favorite alpha I honestly loved them all. There is one more alpha that comes in book 2 but you have to read book 1 to get the story behind him. I would definitely recommend this if you love Omegaverse like me!