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Mr. Sin
- Sin Series, Book 1
- By: S.J. Tilly
- Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Michelle Sparks
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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I should have run the other way. Paid my tab and gone back to my room. But he was there. And he was…everything. I figured, what’s the harm in letting passion rule my decisions for one night? So what if he looks like the Devil in a suit? I’d be leaving in the morning, flying home to my pleasant but predictable life. I’d never see him again. Except I do. In the last place I expected. And now everything I’ve worked so hard for is in jeopardy.
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💖 SIN-FULLY DELICIOUS.. & I LOVED IT 💖
- By 🔹🔸🔹🔸CAROLYN 🔹🔸🔹🔸 on 04-29-23
- Mr. Sin
- Sin Series, Book 1
- By: S.J. Tilly
- Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Michelle Sparks
Another Billionaire Romance 🙄
Reviewed: 05-09-25
My issue with this book is more about the contemporary romance genre in general rather than this particular book. Although it’s equally bad! The same formulaic storyline and tropes…
Most aggravating is the implausibility of these stories in addition to the lack of understanding of just how wealthy a billionaire is. There is a scene in the story where Mr. Sin has to visit Sasha because of a medical issue. I get that it was to force proximity and move the story forward but it’s so implausible. Billionaires have an entire medical team on call 24/7 so this would never happen! This is just one example but it happens over and over in the book, it’s annoying. Just call him a millionaire or just wealthy then the scenes having a fighting chance.
To illustrate, if you were given $1000 every day, you’d have to wait 2 years 8 months to get $1m. To get to $1bn you’d have to wait 2740 years!
It’s not just a little more — it’s a massive difference. I hope this helps.
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Tempt Me
- Wolf Hotel Series, Book 1
- By: K. A. Tucker
- Narrated by: Avery Reid
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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I ran from home to escape heartbreak, only to deliver myself into the hands of a wolf. Henry Wolf, that is. Heir to a luxury hotel chain, infamous playboy, arrogant bastard...and my new boss. Why he wants me, Abbi Mitchell - a girl who lacks experience on every front that would matter to him - as his personal assistant, I cannot fathom, especially when I keep messing up in the most spectacular way. Did I already mention he's a bastard? A beautiful, moody one, who's quick to demand, slow to apologize. And toying with me every chance he gets.
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if you are over 20 don't bother
- By Kindle Customer on 02-09-20
- Tempt Me
- Wolf Hotel Series, Book 1
- By: K. A. Tucker
- Narrated by: Avery Reid
Age gap romance 🤮
Reviewed: 07-25-24
Age gap romances give me the ick! 30 something billionaire playboy meets 20 year old virgin is not my cup of tea. Couldn’t finish.
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The Betrayed Wife
- By: Kevin O'Brien
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Sheila O'Rourke has always known her husband isn't perfect. Who is? But things have been better since they moved to Seattle to make a fresh start. So much so that when 16-year-old Eden turns up, claiming to be Dylan's child by another woman, Sheila tries to be welcoming.
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Protagonists annoyed me...
- By shelley on 08-11-19
- The Betrayed Wife
- By: Kevin O'Brien
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Save your 14 hours, you’ll thank me later
Reviewed: 01-26-24
The problem with this story is that all the characters were just really shitty. There was no one to root for! Dylan was a sleazy prick. His family is in crisis as a consequence of his actions and he chooses that time to screw around on his wife. He “just couldn’t help himself” 🤮
Sheila is a fragile victim, as most women who are married to narcissists tend to be. She refuses therapy to deal with her past and just drinks and pops pills to cope instead. So cliche 🙄
The kids are stereotypes too, bratty princess, nerd, jock.
As a family, they’re collectively clueless. A series of freak accidents happen back to back and everyone just shrugs them off. Skip this one I promise you will thank me.
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Death to the Chief
- Atlanta Murder Squad, Book 2
- By: Lance McMillian
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Modern-day Georgia. The state Supreme Court celebrates the opening of its new courthouse, but the chief justice - shot dead in his chambers - is late to the party. Enter ex-lawyer Chance Meridian. Pressed into service by an offer he cannot refuse, Chance launches the search for the bold killer. But dirty politics is part of Atlanta’s DNA. The town is full of secrets - secrets too damning to see the light of sunshine. And if Chance cannot crack the case and fast, the next murder on the court’s docket could be his own.
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Christopher Lane’s narration is superb!!
- By shelley on 08-05-21
- Death to the Chief
- Atlanta Murder Squad, Book 2
- By: Lance McMillian
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Author & Narrator Match Made in Heaven!!
Reviewed: 10-27-23
This series is one of my favorite so far. The pairing of Lance McMillian and Christopher Lane is what has been missing from my Audible queue and I am so glad I found them! Chance is human and real, flawed but still such a great litigator. The dialogue is hilarious and captures the south in such a great way. Good read, thoroughly enjoyed it.
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The Murder of Sara Barton
- Atlanta Murder Squad, Book 1
- By: Lance McMillian
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Driven by his tragic past, prosecutor Chance Meridian seeks justice for a beautiful woman brutally murdered in her own home. Except nothing comes easy in Atlanta, and certainly not justice. A lot of people in town wanted Sara Barton dead, and every single one of them is lying about something. Chance shouldn't be surprised. Murder is an ugly business. But so is love.
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A debut novel that reads...
- By shelley on 01-31-21
- The Murder of Sara Barton
- Atlanta Murder Squad, Book 1
- By: Lance McMillian
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Highly Recommend!
Reviewed: 10-24-23
The story and narrator were great!! The write took his time weaving together a great story that I completely lost myself in. Then the narrator!! I ordered Book 2 before I even finished this one because I enjoyed his cadence and different voices so very much. Great job all around.
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Dirty Liar
- By: Marissa Finch
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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The forest is my happy place. A chance to get away from my stifling apartment, the sweat of the city, a job I hate. A Sunday morning spent hiking in the woods with my dog is a dream come true...until it becomes a waking nightmare. I don't see the hole until it's too late. Then I'm at the bottom of it, staring up at the ground 12 feet above me. A stupid accident. Or was it? Because soon, someone's bringing me food and water. Someone who doesn't want me to see his face. Someone who knows what I did.
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Was not impressed.
- By Debbie Alverson on 07-02-23
- Dirty Liar
- By: Marissa Finch
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
Loose ends
Reviewed: 10-10-23
Some meaningless subplots were added in and then never explored or properly fleshed out. Maybe there was a word count the author needed to hit so they just added fluff. Either way they were just dangling loose threads which were added for no apparent reason.
The narrator does a decent male voice and an aggravating whiney female voice which is hard to listen to.
The characters were one dimensional villain or victim with no redeeming qualities which made it hard to root for them. Much as I tried I simply couldn’t care what happened to any of them. The plot twist is so contrived it added to my frustration with the whole book. Unless it’s free I would skip this one.
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Fix
- A Brewed Novel
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Jason Clarke
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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This is book one in a new series from best-selling romance author Molly McAdams. In the Brewed series, each standalone novel focuses on one of the Dixon boys - the hottest bachelors around. What everyone doesn’t see is the strain threatening to destroy their family and their parents’ dream - permanently. Based in a small, country town, the Brewed series is filled with tension, excitement, and passion - feuds will transform into romances, and chances will be given again in true McAdams fashion.
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Female Narrator Ruined For Me
- By Daisy Maldonado on 09-25-20
- Fix
- A Brewed Novel
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Jason Clarke
Excruciatingly Painful 😖
Reviewed: 09-12-23
There are so many issues with this book don’t know where to start. First I dislocated something in my eye from rolling them too much. The caveman thing Sawyer has going on, all while a great communicator who is also a f**k boy who is trying to ease his pain from 9 years ago by sleeping with anything that moves. As long as they’re not curvy because… Completely implausible
Then there is the female narrator with the breathy Valley girl thing she probably thinks is sexy 🙄
Then the character herself Rae is obnoxious and needs therapy. Lots of people had shitty things happen to them and they don’t turnaround and be shitty people as well. Weird part is she’s older than the dude but annoyingly immature.
The story itself just goes on forever with no real point. Skip this one, you will thank me later.
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Always the Last to Know
- By: Kristan Higgins
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters - Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold....
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Life is messy
- By Deed on 06-13-20
- Always the Last to Know
- By: Kristan Higgins
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, Graham Winton
Imaginary problems in middle class America
Reviewed: 05-10-23
There are so many annoying things about this book, I don’t know where to start. These women have such cushy lives that they need imaginary problems and crises to gripe about. Two parents who played favorites with their kids, two polar opposite sisters 1 high achieving with a seemingly perfect life. The other barely making an effort and yet somehow everything is just working out for her.
Caro, Barb’s best friend was my favorite character in the whole book. Would’ve loved to see more of her. There’s one scene which made me coin the moniker Gangsta Grannies!! Overall this was just ok, mindless listen can’t complain too much because it was free with my plus membership.
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Shot in Darkness
- By: Heather Sunseri
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Intelligence analyst and former FBI special agent Brooke Fairfax is on the run. Not from anything sinister, but from her past. She's hiding from Declan O'Roark after he proposed a question she simply wasn't ready to answer. Within hours, Declan tracks her down, desperate to save the relationship. Then Brooke and Declan meet a suspicious man outside a Washington, DC, neighborhood bar. Terror begins to unfold just as Brooke realizes the man's intentions.
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An okay suspense read
- By mayheartreads on 04-02-21
- Shot in Darkness
- By: Heather Sunseri
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith, Andrew Eiden
Brooke is extremely annoying! 😤
Reviewed: 05-03-23
I cannot fathom how someone who has had so many close calls with a stalker always insists on being on her own just so she can get kidnapped or harmed in someway ALL THE DAMN TIME!!! She is constantly doing dumb stuff that is supposedly because she is smart and strong but just lands her in scenarios where she needs to be rescued. I listened from book 1 and never got over the similarity to JD Robb’s characters Eve and Roarke. Anywho! If you haven’t read the “In Death” series the similarities will not be an issue for you and this series will be an okay listen.
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Cut in Darkness
- By: Heather Sunseri
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith, Alan Smyth
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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After dozens of Lexington, Kentucky's forgotten - mostly prostitutes and the homeless - swamp local hospitals from apparent overdoses over the Fourth of July weekend, Kentucky cops soon discover a new synthetic form of heroin is infecting their communities, and that gangs - namely the outlaw motorcycle gang Samael's Army - are responsible for using a "disposable" population to test the new drug.
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Bana- SOILER books 6 and 7 unviable
- By Bana on 07-21-22
- Cut in Darkness
- By: Heather Sunseri
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith, Alan Smyth
Too stupid to survive
Reviewed: 04-30-23
This is the second book in the series and Brooke hasn’t learnt anything from book 1 . She’s still reckless and cocky and puts herself in danger for very little payoff then she just gets lucky and escapes. No indication of any actual skill/ training consistent with her being “the best agent” aside from being the Director’s daughter.
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