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Two Straights Too Many

Heroes of Port Dale, Book 1

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Two Straights Too Many

By: Romeo Alexander
Narrated by: Keith Smith
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Elias:

Moving to Daleport City to work at the local fire station was going to be hard. Then I met Cade. Turns out, I’d met my new best friend, and for two years, he’s been by my side through everything. The guys tease us about how close we are, but we’re straight, just good friends. Then Cade and I found ourselves having to pretend to date, pretend to be attracted to one another…And then we stopped pretending.

Cade:

As if having a female stalker and a harpy for a mother wasn’t enough, I’m also in a fake relationship with my best friend? Then we ended up kissing…and more. Elias is straight, I’m straight, and we suddenly want to do not so straight things. That’s pretty much where I am now. So tell me… what am I supposed to do?

Elias and Cade, two straight firefighters and best friends, find themselves in a fake relationship that leads both men into territory they’ve never ventured into before. Can their friendship survive? Will they ever want to go back?

©2020 Books Unite People, LLC (P)2020 Books Unite People, LLC Literature & Fiction Romance Feel-Good Heartfelt
Heartwarming Moments • Funny Banter • Smooth Narration • Close Friendship • Plausible Fake Dating • Low Angst Story
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Too straights too many is a cute gfy romance. Elias and Cade are both straight,, They have a very close friendship. They are both firefighters ,always hang out together but never anything more. There’s some drama with a women named Christine, but it all’s works out in the end. If you’re looking for a fairly quick listen, a gfy romance with all the feels pick up this book

Cute

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loved it great book. good story. made me laugh and kept my attention. can't wait to hear all the other books

loved it

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This is the first story I’ve listened to/read by this author. I really enjoyed these characters. Cade, trying to be his own person and while trying to keep peace in the family, ends up in a situation with his best friend. This has a block tumbling effect on his and Elias’s lives. Elias, the easy going personality, goes along with his best friend and ends up more where he wants to be. While this story follows the general outline for bff standing in as boyfriend, it kept me interested. The setting, the characters and the story flow fit together to make this a fun story for me. I enjoyed the narration by Keith Smith. He brought the story to life. I was given a free copy and this is a voluntary review. I will read more by this author.

Kept me entertained

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This is the first time I have thought an AI generated narration would have been better and sound more human than the stilted and weird narration of Keith Smith.

Good story, terrible narration

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I love this type of story and this one did not disappoint. I would recommend it.

Cute!

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I always love friends to lovers stories. Hope I get to the next one soon.

Quite

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Not a bad story but needs to be read bc the narrator was way too robotic and not acting enough with the story.

Would have been. ton better with. different narrator.

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This is book 1 of the Heroes of Port Dale. I really enjoyed this book. The Narration by Keith Smith is smooth and I was able to just sink into this story. I love the internal dialogue of the two MC's. I would happily recommend this series. I am looking forward to book 2.

Great start to this series

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Initially, I admit I was influenced by the reviews and immediately disliked the narrator. When I tried to figure out what I didn’t like I realized that he seemed to drag out the story, I increased the rate and this helped a lot. The “abouts”were pronounced (Canadian?) but what drove me crazy was that many times I heard “Kate” when it was “Cade.” Annoying, but not horrible.

Once I got more comfortable with the narrator I became more aware that the bigger issue for me was the story. The third person narratives made it feel cold. Even though the chapters identified which character was speaking it didn’t help.

The story itself was not bad...maybe even good, but the issues stated above made it challenging to get “lost” in the story which is kind the idea for a romance story. Having said all this I am going to give the next story a chance...hoping that I won’t regret it.

Pros and Cons

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Two "straight" guys having sleep overs (that they didn't want the guys at the station to know about) and are touchy-feely as much as they are - it's not a stretch to think Care and Elias could be more than platonic friends and thus not so straight afterall. "Two Straights Too Many" was a fast low angst read, the performer Keith Smith did a good job; I'm just not overwhelmed by an amazing performance. Just a slight annoyance to me is the pronunciation of the word "out" or any words containing or rhymed with "out" kept pulling me out of the story. The best thing about the fake dating romance aspect of this story is that it felt a lot more plausible than many others out there, but it would not have happened if Cade had simply told Christine he wasn't interested in dating her and if he hadn't jumped to the conclusion (and boy was he was way off) that she would ruin his career.

4 stars - worthy of a repeat listen but I won't listen again.

The signs were there

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