I adore Betsy's narration

Great story, I love Radclyffe's work - total legend. But boy does Betsy Zajko give it her all for the sexy bits!!

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It's all coming together

I really want to smack Russo's smugness right of the side of his face.

It's all so plausible that's the scary part. I did want to tell Evan to get a grip and Wes to stop being so nice but... that's probably the teacher in me.

Can't wait to read Firestorm and Price of Honor.

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Good voice, good story.

Good voice, nice and easy to listen to. Good story, it follows on nicely from the previous books in the series.
Unfortunately I spent quite some time re listening due to the fact she has no difference in voices for the other main characters. I got easily confused as to which character was speaking when they were speaking to each other!
Also, she mis pronounces certain key words and there's no way you can ignore them as they're vital to the story at that time.. ( No spoilers here) Overall a good follow on story with characters from other books thrown in, and worth the read even if you've not read the previous books.

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Narrator is very good

This lesfic story has the usual holes and anomalies in the plot, which are common to Radclyffe novels, but the romantic attraction and sex scenes are well written. Betsy Xajko struggles for a while to bring real meaning and feeling into her reading but overall she is a very good narrator and later on she is excellent.

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Good addition to the honour series

A good subplot to the Honour series introducing some different MC's. I did miss Abby Craden as the storyteller her characterization in main series was spot on the voice characters in this story were imho a bit weak and did not fit the profiles and occasionally got mixed up. The male characters did not come over as ruthless supervillains.
A good listen however and my second time around and I would listen again. Recommended.

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Sadly this feels like too much of the same.

I saw the summary for this audio book, and honestly decided that it could easily be another cliched lesbian romance novel, full of two dimensional characters, sex, and not a lot else. However, I really loved 'Turn Back Time' and liked 'Trauma Alert' so I was willing to give this a try based on those books because they managed to avoid that trap, and have characters and plots that became three dimensional and were stories that had you caring about the characters and the way the story ended.

One advantage of being a member of audible is the fact that you can return books if you find they aren't quite what you were expecting, and because of that I decided it was worth the risk.

Sadly I wasn't wrong about my initial assessment based on the summary. And unlike 'Turn Back Time' and 'Trauma Alert' this really didn't seem to fit into the 'First Responders' category. In fact, I would have said this was more likely to have fit into the 'Honor' series of books.

Added to that, the recording and narrator are frankly really, really bad. There is an awful echo/reverberation with this recording and that constantly distracted me from the story, and it had me wondering which barn they recorded this in! Plus, at times it was hard to work out which character was speaking because there seems to be no real way the narrator was separating the characters. Far too many recordings feel as though they have been rushed onto the audible catalog with little or no consideration to the quality of the engineering behind the work, so it was a real disappointment to find that even works by the more popular lesbian authors have fallen into this trap.

Too many lesbian novels have fallen into the routine of the two dimension, which is sad because with a little thought they could be so much more. And I feel that this is such a story, that moment in time when an author sticks to what the public have decided they like, and so it gets churned out in such a way that it all could easily belong to the same story without any real separation of character or plot. Given the depth of stories with the earlier titles that I have mentioned, titles by this author that I have enjoyed, this came as a real let down. And that is a real shame, especially from an author who has exhibited such depth in the past.

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