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Chasing Fate
- Friendship and Desire, Book 2
- Narrated by: Tim Paige, Liam DiCosimo
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Hooking up with your friend is a totally acceptable way to pass the time until your soul mate shows up. Right?
I’m on a mission—happily ever after or bust. I just know my handsome, successful, bearded prince is out there waiting for me to find him. I’ve had my cards read a million times. This is my destiny. True, it’s been a challenge navigating the dating scene, but you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince.
So when my childhood bestie reappears after years apart, announcing his desire to reconnect, it’s a pleasant distraction to introduce him to my world and help him acclimate again. He’s not my type at all, but he’s fun enough to pass the time with. Burnt out from chasing yet another potential Mr. Right, I happily accept the friends with benefits offer. I could use a bit of fun.
If only Diego had some of the qualities I’m looking for in a mate. Just because he’s funny, sweet, charming, and incredibly good at—um, anyway, he’s just not the one. He couldn’t be. The cards wouldn’t steer me wrong.
But the longer we do this, the more I wonder, are we just blowing off steam, or are we chasing fate?
Chasing Fate is a fun and steamy friends to lovers story featuring a devout believer in bearded princes, pining, sexual awakening, friends with benefits, and finding out maybe destiny doesn’t always work out the way you think it will. It is book two in the Friendship and Desire series featuring men finding out that maybe they were always more than friends.
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- Dee Roberts
- 13-04-22
brilliant
loved the book, but the audio brought something extra to the book.
Diego and Sidney were best friends as kids but Diego moved away. after an accident Diego moves back and the reconnect.
Liam was perfect to do the narration of this book
fun audio
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- Larissa_S
- 03-05-22
Sexy, sweet story
Mia Monroe’s Chasing Fate follows on the heels of the fabulous Dirty Forty in her Friendship and Desire series. Sequels are always difficult especially when the first one is so good. And Dirty Forty was very good … indeed, a tough act to follow. Couple that with the fact that this is a “themed” series where every book is based on the same trope - friends to lovers - and Ms. Monroe set herself up with quite the challenge for Chasing Fate.
Admittedly, I had some trepidation when I started the book. We met Sydney in Dirty Forty, and I immediately loved his exuberant personality, quirkiness, and utterly charming outlook on life. So I was thrilled he’d be getting his HEA, but I wasn’t sure who his “other half” would be. When I discovered it was his childhood best friend Diego, I wondered if I was just going to be reading Dom and Zach’s story all over again. And in fact, there are a lot of parallels between the storylines.
So this is where the Mia Monroe magic comes in, reminding me that I should never have doubted what this very talented author can do. Sydney and Diego are given a great deal of emotional complexity that‘s authentic and understandable. They are both fools for and about each other in different ways. But wow do they have hearts of gold. And Diego … *swoon*. This man. Patient. Kind, Respectful. Loving. The optimism and “glass half full” attitude he consistently displays reflects that same attitude as conveyed by Ms. Monroe throughout everything she writes. You cannot walk away from one of her stories without having fallen in love and feeling better about life and the people in it.
Sydney and Diego’s romance provides all the hot, steamy, sexy, swoony, flirty, and fun content you could ask for, wrapped up in two beautiful men who are perfect for each other. Their journey to HEA is not easy, “[b]ut there’s beauty to be found in the hard stuff”(to quote Diego).
To bring this full circle, those things that concerned me about Chasing Fate, turned out to be exactly the things that make Chasing Fate so remarkable. Despite a fairly straightforward premise with a story trajectory similar to Dirty Forty, Ms. Monroe manages to hook us into a wholly absorbing story with a romance that is fresh and new. And also like in Dirty Forty, the true obstacle to the men’s HEA is not what you expect it to be. Ms. Monroe turns the trope on its head. This isn’t your ordinary best friends-to-lovers story. This is a story of self-discovery. Sexuality is just part of that journey. Trust is the goal. You’d think with a best friends to lovers trope that would be a given. Well, think again.
Chasing Fate is a well-crafted, superbly written story that is completely addictive. The audiobook is solid and Tim Paige is terrific. His vocal performances continue to improve and I really enjoyed his interpretation of the plot and characters. Liam DiCosimo is hit or miss for me with his vocal performances and here is more a miss than hit. He didn't quite connect the voices to the characters the way the story called for and I also didn't find a fluid connection between his voices for Sydney and Diego and Tim Paige's voices for them. Personally, I would have preferred a solo narrator (Paige) but YMMV. Overall, though, I still give this audiobook my recommendation.
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