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Promise Me, Book 1
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Renée Chambliss
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Paige Weaver
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"He was my darkness and I was his light. We couldn't exist without each other."
For me, life was simple. I went to school and studied. I spent time with my friends and stayed out of trouble. I didn't drink or swear and I only dated gentlemen. I was the typical good girl with a bright future. My world seemed perfect. But that was about to change.
Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life. He was the bad boy, the black sheep, the one your mother always warned you about. He had only one hard-and-fast rule: Don't fall in love. But some rules were meant to be broken.
We were best friends, inseparable since childhood despite our differences. I knew the real man hiding behind the tattoos and bad attitude. He knew all my secrets and dreams. But he didn't know there was one thing I wanted and couldn't have - him.
But sometimes Fate has a way of intervening. Soon our world collapsed. War erupted. Darkness prevailed. Alone and on the run, our only goal was to survive and to ignore the feelings we had for each other. But love is powerful...and so is the darkness.
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- S0nz4Me
- 02-28-17
Promise Me More
This is a post apocalyptic romance - unique from most other new adult romances on the market. The bad boy/ good girl dynamic was never fully developed though. So for most of the book, I was left with more questions than answers. The story is good so far, as is the narrator, but I'm holding out for the next book to give it a full appraisal.
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- A.B.C.
- 12-24-18
Good premise but the relationship push/pull drags
Narration was good and I wanted to love this book, it had so much potential but the push/pull of the relationship dragged on SO LONG that when I saw book 2 was about the same couple, still sounding like push/pull, I couldn't finish. So much opportunity for an awesome series if it wasn't for the dragging back & forth mixed signals that goes on forever. and ever. and just when you think they might pull it together... forever some more.
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- 8ulldogmama
- 09-20-22
The narrator ruined the story
I think delivery is everything with an audiobook. The narrator is too breathy and extends the last word of every sentence. It made the male lead of the story sound extremely annoying. Being based in Texas, there were no Texan accents done by the narrator. So each time the narrator read “ah hell, Maddie” (and it was a lot” it made it sound stupid. Put a male Texan accent with that and it could sound kinda sexy. But it wasn’t. Instead, it was said in a breathy valley girl voice. I gave the story 3 stars because I hate when an apocalyptic story makes the female lead act dumber than a box of rocks.
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- Obsessive Cat Disorder
- 08-18-22
Great story, wrong narrator
Fortunately I also have this on Kindle. The story is fantastic. And apocalyptic romance. Ryder and Maddie are terrific. What kills this is the narrator. Very high pitched, and she sounds like a kid. She has an almost sing song delivery that is a bit annoying. To breathy. I am sorry, for that reason, I rated it down.
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- Candateshia Pafford
- 08-19-13
Good but.....
I so expected so much more from this book. First the friendship of Mattie and Ryder is well... confusing a bit. Are they friends are lovers... and why is Ryder pushing Mattie away even after they get together... I was just like eh!
Don't get me wrong, it was a well worthy story and I found myself glued to it...but I was glued b/c I was just waiting and waiting for that moment when you just know this is gonna be a great story...but it never came... Story was interesting...but not great... Maybe book 2 will be better. Even though the story wasn't great...I still want to know what happens to the post-WIII world going on here...
Good credit...I wouldn't buy. Save your money... Plus, don't use your credit on this unless you are waiting for another book to come out... It will pass the time away... But this is not a must have...
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- Shephes2002
- 05-27-21
excellent
I've listened to this book 3 times now. I love everything about it! Highly recommend
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- Edyta
- 09-14-13
Ok... but not great!
Would you try another book from Paige Weaver and/or Renée Chambliss?
So when I saw some of the reviews I thought... Hey sounds interesting? Post apocalyptic romance OK... The Start was good. Bad boy and good girl typical dynamic but the more the characters got developed the more I started to have a REAL problem with the heroine of this story. She made bad decision after bad decision. She is 21 but really the mental age is 16! They are in dire situations and all she can think about is having sex again? Really you are all banged up, out of water, out of food and have hundreds of miles to go but that is still all you can think about? No... don't think so! Having said that I don't really regret having listened to the book... It was OK and the narrator was OK too but I hope the author really strengths the heroine in the next book or it will really bring the book down again.
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- Billy T.
- 11-17-24
Good Story
Started out super great the last 10-12 chapters, I lost interest. Maddie turns into a little whiny girl instead of being stronger. Narrator is awesome as always!
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- Terri
- 06-16-20
Had Promise
The storyline is pleasantly unique and different to any other Escape book I've listened to. I was looking forward to it. Sadly that didn't last too long.
It was ruined, for me, by the main female character being totally unlikable and the lead male having whiplash fast changes in direction.
I'm going to listen to the second book to see how the overall story ends, not what happens tho ther main characters.
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