The Club Trilogy

A Bundle of Books 1-3

By: Lauren Rowe

Narrated by: Sebastian York, Vanessa Vasquez

THE CLUB TRILOGY is a bundle of three full-length, continuous-story, addicting romances about the same couple with a happily ever after: The Club: Obsession, The Club: Reclamation, and The Club: Redemption, as well as a bonus, full-length epilogue book (The Club: Culmination), and several bonus scenes. Find out why readers all over the world in multiple languages call this sweeping romance “my favorite trilogy ever” and “the greatest love story I’ve ever read.”

When wealthy playboy Jonas Faraday receives an anonymous note from Sarah Cruz, a law student working part-time processing online applications for an exclusive club, he becomes obsessed with tracking her down and giving her the satisfaction she claims has always eluded her. Thus begins a passionate, spicy, romantic, funny, and downright addicting romance of everlasting love and redemption. As the enigmatic Jonas Faraday ultimately says to his great love, Sarah Cruz: "There’s never been a love like ours and there never will be again… Our love is so pure and true, we’re the amazement of the gods.” The Club Trilogy tells a complete story with a happily ever after and no cliff-hanger.

©2015 Lauren Rowe (P)2023 Lauren Rowe

Wonderful

I learned of Jonas and Sarah through Josh and Kat’s trilogy. I loved their story, but Jonas and Sarah’s story was heart wrenching. I laughed and cried by their story. Never expected the huge arch of the story. Beautiful love story about 2 broken people.

Love it

These books were one of the emotional pulling up and down happy sad, angry cheerful scared you name it I thought everything love this whole series and the epilogue the extended epilogue thank you thank you thank you so worth it so worth it love it love love love it love it!

4-book bundle - a review of the narrators

John Lane and Lily Reynolds narrate this newly-bundled trilogy plus 1 epilogue book (total 4 full-length books). At 41 hours, it is a huge value, and I generally enjoy it. There's plenty of repetition though, and I'm getting a little tired into book 3 (haven't finished the whole 41 hours yet). But I wanted to jump in here and write my review of this unique set, as it appears the 2 narrators together are unique to this bundle. They are lovely to listen to. I enjoy their voices and have not tired of them--that's a lot for a huge listen like this.

At first I thought John Lane sounded a little stiff in the Sample, but he's turned out fine, more than fine. Does multiple characters really well. And Lily is perfect for Sarah's intelligence and quirkiness. She's a hoot. These two say some outlandish things, and with the wrong narrator it could come across much differently. These two do a great job.

Kamasutra 2.0?

The best part of this bundle was Sebastian York’s sexy voice - be still my heart. Vanessa Vasquez delivered an excellent portrayal of Sarah, but she absolutely could not do the male voices.

Overall, this story just strained imagination; dramatic license, much? The take down of The Club was fantastical at best.

And however did Jonas & Sarah ever get any work done? They never ceased getting it on; sexual techniques & instruction were plentiful throughout the story. It is a miracle that either Jonas or Sarah lived to function as semi-normal adults, given their traumatic childhoods, especially Jonas.

That said, the true love story was sublime and trumped the crazy. The philosophy and tattoos were a little overdone. Parts of the story were simply crass/bathroom humor, and a lot of the lines were downright sacrilegious. But, the twin bond, & the close friend relationships were crucial.

The story was long, & could have been condensed with less sex & less Plato, & still been a wonderful love story - but I stuck with it & enjoyed the bundle. I do love the Morgans & the Faradays.

Good Book BUT irresponsible main female character

REDEMPTION THE CLUB TRILOGY BOOK 3. The narrators Sebastian York and Vanessa Vasquez make the characters come alive. This trio of audiobooks is definitely worth the credit.
Lauren Rowe is a good writer, who creates literate, complicated characters and satisfyingly twisty plot lines. Her banter tends to be clever and funny. She also has interesting taste in music and she uses songs and lyrics to move the narrative forward. Sometimes a song can say something about a character's state of mind faster and better that 10 pages of text. BUT... Rowe inevitably leans into tired romance tropes and boring cliches making the story contrived, implausible, especially in the 3rd act. As a reader, I felt manipulated because her main female characters go from being smart, capable and badass to stupid, irresponsible and sometimes just..... batshit crazy. The main female character Sarah Cruz makes ridiculous impulsive decisions that inevitably hurt innocent people. She has a rather elastic sense of right and wrong and does not feel guilty. Sarah is also a habitual liar and justifies her actions with self serving arguments. She has absolutely zero conscience. On the other hand, the male characters are unicorns - interesting, tortured, intricate back stories and they have a moral compass. I wish it was the same for the female characters. Lauren Rowe takes me on a journey that intrigues me, she makes me laugh and she gets me invested in the characters and their journey, only to feel manipulated. Very frustrating

Way too much kinky

I listened to 2 2/3rds of this trilogy. I went back and read The Josh and Kat trilogy before finishing this. I couldn’t finish the third book in this last book. It became so weird and nasty. I love a good sexy story let’s face it or I wouldn’t be reading books by this author. However, this became so gross and weird. The male narrator’s voice started to annoy me. This was such a big NO for me. I will go back and finish the Morgan family brothers stories, and hopefully they will be more appealing than this one.

Overrated

I wish I could get my money back. I'm glad I bought the series as a group instead of buying each book individually so I only wasted 1 credit instead of 3. The 1st book was pretty good. While there certainly were moments I skipped through because goodness knows there's only so much of an angst-filled pity party I can stand, for the most part I enjoyed it. But there were plenty of other moments I was wondering, if this is supposed to be believable, why write a billionaire CEO and law student as if they're stuck in junior high emotionally? It didn't sit well with me and was so boring to listen to! Just the angst-filled rants were boring. The rest of the book was interesting. The voice actors did a great job. The second book is when it all really fell apart and I never got to book 3 because of that. The writing went down hill, way down hill, and it all became so very expected. And boring. B-O-R-I-N-G. I got a headache from rolling my eyes so much. I don't enjoy books that are basically cookie cutter copy cats of other books. 'Me big man got to keep little lady safe, not tell little lady anything' then off he goes, thinking he's "so smart" to do x,y,z behind his girl's back "just to get info" and ofcourse she catches him but hold on! She thinks he's cheating, because ofcourse she does. Cue the automatic assumptions, hurt feelings, blah, blah, blah. We've all read the same thing 100 times before. Some authors can get away with it because they write it so well. Not this author. This isn't a dig on this author. I've listened to other books from this same author and liked them but this series blows. Hard. It would have been much better to end Jonah's story in book 1 and continue book 2 with Josh's story. That would have worked and allowed for the mystery to continue as well. But there just isn't enough meat there anymore with Jonah and his girl to keep it authentically interesting. Now, it feels as though everything is forced. Maybe this series is aimed more at young adults since Jonah, a billionaire CEO of a huge company is thinking and acting like a teenager in book 2. That makes more sense. But it's certainly not the wunderkind some reviews have made it out to be so I thought I should put out a dissenting voice as a warning to those who want it. Take it as you will.

painful

started out ok and went downhill from there. I can t finish it. my ears are bleeding

Cringe fest

I made it to chapter 5…not sure how. I’m not a picky reader, I can and will read almost anything, but this one was painfully bad. I’m sorry to the author, maybe it was the people reading it? Either way, it’s a no for me.