The Sweetest Goodbye

Roadmap to Your Heart, Book 5

By: Christina Lee

Narrated by: Tristan James, Iggy Toma

Billie Montgomery was always known as the sick kid with the therapy dog. Dylan Bowden never had two nickels to rub together, let alone a true home to call his own. The two have been best friends since high school. They're always there for each other, so when Billie opens his own bakery called Montgomery's Sweets no one supports him better than Dylan.

The business is a success, and Billie figures he's got everything he needs. Everything except the guy he's been saving himself for, no matter how often Dylan tells him it's time to move on. After a night out turns into a sexy exchange between the best friends, they pretend like nothing happened. Besides, Billie's still holding a torch for somebody else, and Dylan has always been a considerable flirt.

When Billie's first love unexpectedly breezes through town and life throws him a pretty rough curve ball, will Billie seek solace in the one man he's pining for, or the only guy who's ever protected his heart?

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Christina Lee (P)2020 Tantor

Really??? Why Tristan James ????

I’m sorry but this would’ve been a perfect 5 if the authors would listen to reviewers. I know without a shadow of a doubt Iggy Toma can totally handle these books alone. Tristan James is horrible. Every time I hear is voice I cringe. He sounds bored and way too old for a 22-24 year old. He sounds 60 years old. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR REVIEWERS!!!!! Iggy Toma is awesome alone. He’s young and sexy.

This map is a dead end.

This borderline novella is a nothing burger of a book. The synopsis overstates the dramatic nature of the plot, nothing here is all that dramatic.

Where this title really falls apart for me is the narration. Iggy Toma is a very unique voice and almost never pairs well with another narrator. In agreement with another reviewer that Iggy could have handled this flimsy story on his own just fine. However, Iggy cannot do accents. His southern twang, something he's tried before, is cartoonish at best. One minute Scarlett O'Hara, the next Foghorn Leghorn. Let's not discuss the awful Australian accent in Keira Andrews Valor Duology - where he was the only narrator. Gack! No accents for Iggy! Then there is Tristan James. He of the one note intonation and very mature sound. These are 20 somethings, what on earth is Tristan James doing here. Every now and then he would try to drop some twang and it was awful! Then to make the poor man have to say Grammy over and over, it was plain cruel. I don't think the best writing in the world could stand up to these two.

There are a couple of good moments, but moments do not a story make. I would compare Kacen Callender's Sunset Springs, a book of similar length, that was not part of a series. That story was fully realized, whereas this one was dependent on characters from other books, and not all the consistently. This title was included in my membership, so I didn't use a credit. Even included, I wouldn't recommend.