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Brother-in-Law Material
- By: Crystal Lacy
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When Kendall O'Hara catches his boyfriend cheating, he runs to his sister - the only person he can rely on in the city. But she's on a business trip, so Kendall finds himself temporary roomies with her super hot and equally kind live-in boyfriend. Luke Hale's family has made him so jaded regarding relationships, that he’s had no problem pretending to be his best friend’s boyfriend. It’s never been a problem, until her sweet, adorable brother arrives.
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Super sweet opposites attract!
- By RACHEL REED on 10-23-21
- Brother-in-Law Material
- By: Crystal Lacy
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
Hetero romance masquerading as m/m
Reviewed: 02-05-25
The premise is a fun one. The writing is easy to follow with clearly defined characters. The reader does a great job. The challenge is that as a gay man, this is clearly not written for me. It is written for women who fetishize gay romance. Kendall - one of the protagonists is male in pronoun only, and the author even refers to Kendall as “she” at one point. Small and thin, submissive, vulnerable and needing rescuing, shy about nudity around another man… it just gets a bit wearisome after a bit. Yes, some men could be like this but it is just so relentless in its two-dimensional approach to the character. Which is unfortunate. Other than slipping into and wallowing in stereotypes, it is a well told story.
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Badlands
- Badlands, Book 1
- By: Morgan Brice
- Narrated by: Kale Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Medium and clairvoyant Simon Kincaide owns a Myrtle Beach boardwalk shop where he runs ghost tours, holds seances, and offers private psychic readings, making a fresh start after his abilities cost him his lover and his job as a folklore professor. Jaded cop Vic D'Amato saw something supernatural he couldn't explain during a shootout several years ago in Pittsburgh and relocated to Myrtle Beach to leave the past behind, still skeptical about the paranormal. But when the search for a serial killer hits a dead end, Vic battles his skepticism to ask Simon for help.
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Perfect for lonely gay commuters
- By bluejay80 on 05-23-19
- Badlands
- Badlands, Book 1
- By: Morgan Brice
- Narrated by: Kale Williams
It held my attention
Reviewed: 04-23-24
The story held my attention and the reader did a great job. At times I was frustrated as the characters didn’t communicate or behave in the way one would reasonably do or say in the circumstances, and instead were forced to do or say what would forward the author’s agenda, which would throw me out of the story’s reality. But if one ignored those lapses, the story was entertaining.
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An Unexpected Kind of Love
- When Snow Falls, Book 1
- By: Hayden Stone
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Bookstore owner Aubrey Barnes likes his quiet, orderly London life, thank you very much. His shop may be struggling, his only employee is a menace, and his plumbing is one creaky pipe away from disaster, but he can handle it. Maybe. He cannot, however, handle the film company that's thrown his Soho street into chaos. And he definitely can't handle the charismatic American actor Blake Sinclair.
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Great if you want sex scenes
- By Anonymous User on 10-12-22
- An Unexpected Kind of Love
- When Snow Falls, Book 1
- By: Hayden Stone
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
Characters not credible and plot is tedious.
Reviewed: 04-22-24
I reached about the halfway mark and ultimately couldn’t stand any more. The MC is so neurotic and rude that I never understood why Blake was attracted to him. It made no sense. And all too often the obvious questions were not asked: as an up and coming actor are you out of the closet? If he’s going out with a guy in public, dancing, wearing makeup - it shows absolutely no discretion. A reasonable person would ask about this. Having sex in the corner of a dark disco - again it made me ask if this actor is out? Then the tattoos and nipple ring on the bookish MC who never goes out and is antisocial seemed jarring to learn about halfway into the book. It seemed out of character as painted so far. And it seemed odd an educated man would need Vegan explained to him. Too much in the narrative just didn’t seem believable. And I thought in the UK, Maurice is pronounced “Morris” not “Moreece” - that was odd too. I really wanted to like it. The MC also seemed more like a neurotic woman rather than a neurotic man. Too many details were just off.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
- By: Ryan Douglass
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Michael Crouch
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St. Clair Prep. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. But things at St. Clair start looking up with the arrival of another Black student - the handsome Allister - and for the first time, romance is on the horizon for Jake. Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse.
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Brings up too much trauma
- By TheColorNerd on 10-14-21
- The Taking of Jake Livingston
- By: Ryan Douglass
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Michael Crouch
Complicated feelings
Reviewed: 01-03-24
This is the type of book I normally would love. A gay black teen that can see ghosts is a compelling premise. Add the ghost of a school shooter who wants to possess the body of our hero so he can continue his violent activities is also a gripping concept. I love that the shooter is complicated and deserves some sympathy for his horrible home life. But telling of the story meandered and at times it was hard to follow exactly what was going on. I didn’t believe characters’ choices. There were no consequences for actions that would normally have consequences. The pacing crawled into minutia at times until it would hit big action sequences that would go on and on without accomplishing anything. There were important issues: access and obsession with guns, homophobia, rape, racism, bullying, child abuse, mental illness… but it all got a bit muddy as they piled on top of a plot that was in a whirlpool of the MC’s angsty thoughts. And then the main story ended, but the book continued on for additional chapters that felt interminable. The readers were great- as good as they could have been. I really wanted to like the book. It just felt like it needed an editor to focus the storytelling a bit more.
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