
The Love Interest
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Narrado por:
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Michael Crouch
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De:
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Cale Dietrich
There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.
Caden is a Nice: the boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. Dylan is a Bad: the brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?
Both Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. They have to be - whoever the girl doesn't choose will die.
What the boys don't expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them both.
The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich is a gay YA thriller that is nonstop action from start to finish.
©2017 Cale Dietrich (P)2017 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Great story
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Great 👍
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The characters of,Caden and "Dyl", Dylan feel like real people.I loved this book from start to finish.
I want to sincerely thank both the author of this book and the narrator for their amazing work.
The narator,Michael Crouch,really brings all of the charaters to life especially,Caden and Dylan.
I would like to ask the author,Cale Dietrich:
Can you please consider writing either a sequel or a spinoff,with Caden and Dylan.Thanks
Michael Crouch gives these characters life.
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good narration, cool plot, weak story.
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Story: Caden and Dylan are orphans raised by a secret group who develop/train and then provide 'love interests' to promising or powerful people. These love interests stay besides their 'prey' and feed secrets to the agency, who uses that information to gain power, influence, and money. Here, promising scientist teenager Juliet is targeted by "nice guy" Caden and "bad boy" Dylan. When Juliet settles on one of them, the other will be incinerated for his failure. Should the boys try to run away, they will be hunted down by murderous robots. But what happens when one finds himself attracted to the other love interest and not their target?
The first major hurdle with the Love Interest is that all the characters are flat. Especially Dylan, Caden's competition, comes off as a cardboard figure - no personality, no depth, and other than being physically handsome, no good reason for Caden's interest. He felt like an aging hound - lumbering, almost bovine with empty black eyes, and sounding like a halfwit most of the time. It was REALLY hard to understand Caden's interest (or Juliet's), despite being given Caden's POV for the entire book. Caden himself was also greatly underwritten, seeming more of a caricature than someone raised in a secret organization without family or affection. I won't even get into the side characters, who fare no better. But that segues to the second issue: logic and believability.
Much of the world makes absolutely no sense. Readers can suspend disbelief but it shouldn't have to be a constant fight, either, to do so. From the silliness of the secret organization or that we are being led to believe that this teenage girl is so damn important as to get two huge resources wooing her, the book really fell apart once it left the high school setting. I would have preferred to see the entire last quarter of the book jettisoned and instead focus spent on expanding and strengthening the first 3/4. The bad guys were stupid, the whole thing inept, too many coincidences, and with a far too 'pat' ending. There was a lot of eye rolling after the 80% mark.
The last big issue was that the writing was very simplistic and unexciting. When even a professional narrator can't elevate it (in my Audible version), then I know for sure that we have a problem. The love was 'insta' all around and certainly was as romantic as a dead cat. Juliet was a lot of 'tell' with little show and Caden spends most of the book mooning over 'Dyl' (who is oblivious) instead of actually trying to woo Juliet and ensure he isn't incinerated.
In the end, a very disappointing read of what could have been a fantastic premise. It greatly needed some gravitas and rewriting, something perhaps the writer will tackle some day when he has more experience under his belt. Reviewed from an Audible recording.
Disappointing
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I guess I now have the perfect answer to the question, “What’s your favorite book?”
It’s something y’all don’t wanna miss.
Oh. My. God.
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then it was sped up and all of a sudden they all saved the day.
Lazy ending
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Where does The Love Interest rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I love an usual story that is inventive, innovative and well-written. This book certainly is that.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Love Interest?
What I loved about it was the matter-of-fact treatment of same-sex relationships which form a large part of the heart of this work. 10 years ago, that subject matter would have been taboo or groundbreaking. Now, it is just an element of the story, and a sweet one at that. Baby steps turn into giant leaps. :)What does Michael Crouch bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Oy, where can I begin on this? Michael brings his characters to life--each of them had a unique, nuanced, and very distinctive voice. He breathes life into them. You're not listening to an audiobook with him--you are eavesdropping on a conversation with the characters. At one point, he was managing FIVE characters at once, and making each one so real and personable. Michael is passionate, expressive, and real. I have quietly decided to build my own Michael Crouch library. That is allWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The epilogue was particularly satisfying. I had been tense the last few chapters. It was a very satisfying denouement.Any additional comments?
How can I hire Michael Crouch to read me to sleep at night. Seriously.Jaysus, can Michael Crouch narrate my daily life?
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Love
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