
They Told Me I Was Everything
The First Quarto, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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J.F. Harding
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By:
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Gregory Ashe
Auggie is starting his first year at Wroxall College. It’s a punishment, and he’s determined to make his way through the year, prove himself, and earn the right to go back home.
Theo is a grad student recovering from a terrible car accident. He’s lost his husband and their daughter, and he’s trying to figure out how to keep going.
When both are tangled up in a murder, though, they have to set their personal problems aside and work together — first to clear their names, and then, when the killer turns his attention on them, to survive.
But what might really kill them is finishing a seminar together on King Lear.
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Theo is a grad student who is suffering the loss of his husband and daughter in an accident that left him with painful injuries, and not just the physical kind. He spends a lot of his time in an insulated fog of prescription drugs or *and sometimes both* alcohol, and lives with deliberate carelessness. His only saving grace is teaching in his grad program, which he actually enjoys, and gives him his one bright spot of normalcy.
Auggie is an eighteen year old internet personality and has a presence on all the major social media platforms. He has a business plan to grow his brand and make money hand over fist, and he's well on his way to that. His whole life consists of Instagram moments and YouTube videos, at least the ones he scripts and performs. A terrible incident off-script and a bad breakup derails his plans for a while so Auggie decides college at Wroxall in Wahredua, MO will get his image back on track. Nobody, literally nobody, knows the real Auggie, only the image he lets them see. And the real Auggie is really kind of lonely. He gets so tired of the character he's forced to play that the pressure builds up until it pops. And bad things happen.
Auggie ends up in Theo's class and neither is impressed with the other, particularly since they meet before that in less than ideal circumstances. Since this is Wahredua, which we already know is populated with more than its fair share of shady people, those not-ideal circumstances end up pulling them both into a murder investigation. Worse, it makes both of them the focus of really dangerous people who think Auggie and Theo have something they want.
Theo and Auggie have to work together, much against Theo's will. There's an attraction there, but Auggie is an eighteen year old and Theo is not going to go there, even if his head and his heart were in the place to do it. But things get tangled up, and that includes their kind-of friendship. Not gonna lie, sometimes Theo is a real jerk, and both he and Auggie make some of the worst decisions ever. But under all the issues, they're good guys and they need each other, I think. By the time the case is resolved, and both of them come close to not making it out, Auggie and Theo have a bond between them. Not the one Auggie wants, but they care about each other, and friends is what they'll have.
Do I need to suspend belief a little bit? Well yeah. Did I care? Not at all. Auggie's very young and Theo is a twenty-eight year old grad student, neither are detectives. But they are smart *and motivated* and that's part of GA's magic pen, that he makes you believe it. I honestly want to run right to the next one but I already know what Ashe is going to do to me for however many books. *looks sourly at GA* So I need a break.
And can I say how much I enjoyed seeing pre-Hazard Detective John-Henry Somerset? 🥰 Even though his part was small, he's still Somers. *sigh*
On the side of the audiobook, no lie, I actually squeed when I saw the narrator was J.F. Harding, and he did not disappoint! ❤ His performance was part of the reason I loved Theo and Auggie so much and he had the personalities and uncertainties down for both perfectly. I'm crossing my fingers we get him for the whole series. I don't know if I'll be able to wait for the audio on Yet a Stranger *coughI already own the kindlecough* but you best believe that I'll be listening to it whether it's a first read or reread, either way!
Disclaimer: A copy of the audiobook was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Back in Wahredua
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As can be expected from anything written by GA, our sojourn into the academic world is fraught with tragedy. Theo Dalton, a PhD candidate working in the English Department has just returned to work after a car crashed ravaged his body, killed his husband Ian, and left their daughter Lana with severe head injuries.
Auggie Lopez, is a freshman to struggles to balance his genuine desire to learn with keeping up the façade he presents to his Internet audience, who thinks he is straight.
Do either of these poor guys have the time or energy to solve a murder? Not a chance! Do they have a choice? Nope.
As with all of GA's characters, they climb into your heart and take up residence, and you want to smack them and hug them all at the same time. And when you read the last page, you sigh and get on Gregory's FB page and ask when he will tell you more about them.
J.F. Harding is one of my favorite narrators, and does an outstanding job presenting this story in audio form.
Well done on this new series, Mr. Ashe!
In which Gregory takes us to College.
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exceptional
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Fabulous storytelling and five star narration
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Wow I’m now a Fan
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I grew fond of the main characters and was quickly invested and hooked till the end.
The narrarator was fun and easy to understand. They captured the characters personalities well, expressing a great variety of emotionality and depth.
My favorite part about this story is how naturally the character dynamics between the protaganists unfolded. It felt lovely to feel the characters personalities expand and slowly develop over the course of the book.
The story was thrilling because of the pacing. It had a few perfectly timed moments of suspense that sent my heart racing and tensed my muscles in anticipation. This pacing balanced the plot events, character development and relationship dynamics.
Overall, well done 5/5
Well-paced thriller with dynamic characters
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J.F. Harding is a tried-and-true performer and does a great job. His voice is so soothing, and he gives each character a personality. He really made this book come alive.
I was given a free copy of this audiobook in return for an honest review.
Great start of a new series
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JF Harding is one of those narrators that’s almost an auto-buy for me. To combine him with Gregory Ashe made this dumpster fire of a year, well, a bit lighter!
Fantastic!
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Fantastic!!!!
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What we have here are two main characters who couldn't be more different: Auggie, a first-year student at Wroxall College, and Theo, a widower grad student, teaching a Shakespeare class there. Their first meeting is... shattering, to say the less. And somehow, it ties both of them in a plot involving drug-dealing. white supremacists, a violent, corrupted cop and a murder.
At first, Auggie seems to be a happy, slightly superficial kid, trying to get his online business up with some juicing sponsorships as objective, trying to fix some bad mistakes he had made. But soon we see that, under the surface, there is a lot more going on. He has had a hard life, and his brother Fer is probably the only thing that has kept him from going downhill.
And Theo... from the very beginning we know he is going through what is probably the worst time of his life, and not doing well, at all. He lost his husband, and his daughter too, in everything but the physical form. He was badly injured in the accident and his pain medicines and alcohol are their best friends at the moment in which we met him.
And now, they are involved in this crazy search for a man who neither of them really knows, who lied about everything and has really bad people looking for him.
We're clueless about what is really going on, and only get the info that Theo and Auggie get. It's thrilling, scary for moments, but also very funny at times. Theo and Auggie's relationship is complicated because even if there is some attraction going on there, Theo is still Auggie's teacher. And, honestly, he is grieving and dealing with a lot of guilt. Auggie being in the closet to keep his online followers doesn't help, either.
And then, there is Cart, Ian's partner, who seems to want to be more than Theo's friend.
And Orlando, Auggie's roommate, who also seems to want more than a shared dorm room. <spoiler>But he is creepy, creepy, creepy!</spoiler>
Complicated, indeed. But their dynamic is fantastic. They fight and laugh and get frustrated with each other, and it feels so real!
If you have read any of Gregory Ashe's books you know that relationships come veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly and that they are only achieved after a lot of heartbreak, so not happy romantic ending for them in this book.
But you also know that his mysteries are top-notch, and this one is no exception. The way in which the story is told, the different levels of urgency, the strange lulls of quasi-normality between bouts of action and danger, the different adversaries... it kept me engrossed in it, not wanting to stop listening.
And the narration is fantastic! Yes, another very promising series :D
Another great story by this author
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