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Huckleberry

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Snooze fest

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-19-25

This is a tedious third person narrative about a six week romance between two 23 year olds who abstain from sex until, spoiler alert, they get married. They communicate like mature adults, hold no grudges, so no hurtful
words, and harbor no irrational fears. The young lovers acquit themselves with maturity, courtesy and patience throughout. They are both drop dead gorgeous, talented musicians whose careers are taking off, but when he looks at his lovely former beauty queen, he sees not her perky tits but her internal beauty. The book feels preachy, with endless sermons on the power of perfect love. Sex is described in a few broad, gray strokes before the scene fades to black. In other words, Tulsa is a perfect nothing burger.

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Wonderful

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-19-24

Navessa Allen is a great storyteller and gifted writer. I’m on my third listen now and will probably want to spend time with these characters again. The narrators are great, especially Jacob Morgan, who’s a heart stopping combination of sexy and comedic.

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Sweet and hot

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-14-24

Nikki Sloan is the best spicy romance author I’ve found. Her stories are fun to read, with relatable characters (who of course are unrelatably hot), erotic tension and sensually written sex scenes. I haven’t read the other books in this series yet but didn’t feel like I was missing any background info.

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Give this a pass

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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-01-24

I enjoyed Sierra Simone’s Priest and Sinner, but this series of so-called Regency romances is really pretty awful. If you’ve read other romances set during the early 19th century, or even if you just love Bridgerton, the lack of any authentic detail will get on your nerves. The romantic leads start pawing one another right away, the dead wife subplot is a mess, the characters are two dimensional. And to top it off, the narration is ghastly. Every, single line is excitedly, mindlessly read with drama and emphasis. Most unforgivable is the voice of the leading man. Instead of a sexy, dominating hunky guy, all I could see with my minds eye was a manic version of Frankenstein’s monster.

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No story could survive this narration

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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-17-24

I’m a big fan of Harp Strathe, but this narrator makes everything sound like ad copy for cleaning products. The story itself is charming until tries to become a sexy romance—though you shouldn’t put any stock in that opinion since I could only get halfway through this audiobook.

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Well written, skillful story-telling and beautifully read

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-13-24

This final installation of the Vanata chronicles is my favorite, a suspenseful, erotic, sweet and a very satisfying conclusion to the series. I’m not particularly a fan of BDSM erotica; n Book 2, I had a hard time with a couple detailed descriptions of one sadistic character’s idea of fun. But I do enjoy well-written descriptions of hot sex, kinks and all, and Strathe is that rarity among writers of romance and erotica: a real wordsmith who can evoke a complex world peopled with compelling characters pulled along by a tight, absorbing narrative. In the context she creates, the kinks work. I will probably return to this series again soon while waiting for more from this very talented author. And many, many thanks to the brilliant narrator, whose wonderful reading adds nuance and—in all the right places—heat, but never ever noise. How I wish there were more readers like her.

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