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While My Wife's Away

By: James Lear
Narrated by: Campy
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To all appearances, Joe Heath is a typical straight married man, living with his wife and two teenage children, commuting to work, playing sports, enjoying a beer.... But there are things about Joe that his friends don’t know. For one thing, his relationship with his wife has deteriorated to the point that they’re sleeping in separate bedrooms, only staying together until the kids have left home. And there’s something else: for the last few years, Joe has wanted to have sex with another man.

A chance encounter with a trainer at his gym launches Joe on a series of encounters - some casual, some serious, some comic, some dangerous, all of them erotic in the way that only James Lear can make them. Soon, Joe is living a double life: breadwinner and father by day, sexual adventurer by night - his hunting ground the online dating sites that give him access to anyone and anything he wants.

While My Wife’s Away is hot, but it’s also an odyssey of self-discovery as Joe tests the limits of his new freedom. Can he survive in a world of instant sexual gratification? And will he ever find someone to love?

©2017 James Lear (P)2018 Start Midnight LLC
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The performance of this is average- a little awkward and a bit too fast, I had to slow the speed down to make it sound natural. I wish Teddy Hamilton could have read this!

Story is well paced and all of the requisite “steamy” scenes deliver.

I’ve read other reviews that claim that this is Lear’s worst work, but it’s the first of his that I’ve read and it’s better than a lot of stuff out there.

People complain about the ending and on the first listen I was confused, but I was falling asleep as I was listening. I re-listened the next day and understood what James Lear was trying to accomplish.

Worth a credit but sample the narration first to see if the performance bothers you.

Ambiguous Ending

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What did you like best about While My Wife's Away? What did you like least?

The story is really hot - lots of different scenarios.. The main character is discovering his sexuality, and it's nice not to have a character struggle with the self-loathing. However, the narration is horrible. Lots of pauses, hesitations, and just a bad mismatch. The book is written from the perspective of an English middle aged men, but the narration is definitely American. Every time he says the word "arse", I wanted to cringe.

Could you see While My Wife's Away being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

John Hamm or Patrick Warburton would be naturals.

Any additional comments?

Still love the author, but this really needs a new narrator.

Hot stories, but horrible narration..

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The story was enticing and full of titillation, but the narration was the worst ever, for me. I couldn't even finish it because it was so deadpan and un- enthused. I could go on, but let's leave it there.

Aweful narration.

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I really like James Lear’s books. I’ve enjoyed 5 of them. This is another good story, but it’s ruined by a narrator that can’t pronounce common words correctly, doesn’t even attempt an accent for a novel that’s set in England. Redo’s on sentences left in the edit. This Audio book is complete trash. It’s not even funny, total rip off. I’m pissed that I spent money on it since it’s painful to listen to. No clue who Campy is but this publisher should never have paid for this garbage. If I was the author, I’d be incredibly angry.
If this is a joke read, then I completely missed the joke.
Buyer beware.

How a bad narrator can ruin a good book.

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Absolutely dreadful. His voice and reading skills are absolutely terrible. The story line is bad and it does live up to his other books

Worlds worse narrator

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Unsuitable narration. The setting was in England with British vocabulary like “the lift” O levels, A levels, etc. But the automated voice has a strong American accent. The MC’s arc of personal integrity was flat and truncated before completion. The ending was surprising: a cop out. The MC never becomes the person he wants to be, sorry I bought it.

Missed opportunity for a good story

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Honestly, the Campy narration was awful from the beginning, but when his cell phone text notifications began, I had to bounce. Just terrible.

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