Great characters, but can't finish

I loved the characters and writing and settings, which made me want to keep going. The relationships were fun and interesting and often tackled important issues I don't generally see in romantic fics. The narration was decent, especially with the dialogue.

Tat being said, I could not fully finish any of the stories. I found myself skimming through the constant misunderstandings building to the climax with each one. It's not my personal preference to offer misunderstands and self-confidence issues as a plot conflict, but I can overlook it with a single story. Unfortunately, it was the relationship conflict for the first four books! There are only so many times I can read, "I'm not good enough, so I'm going to believe the lie the villain told me instead of just taking to the guy I supposedly care for."

So here I am, abandoning the anthology I desperately wanted to love, midway through book 4. I give up. The misunderstandings are just too monotonous and frustrating.

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Sweetest and Dirtiest!

Cute, funny, witty, kinky and HOT HOT HOT! 🔥🔥🔥 This is one you don't wanna miss!

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Of the 8 books only the last 4

I almost turned off the series half way into book one. Books 1 to 4 is everything I have fought in my life as a gay man in America. Gay men have to be better than the regular guy . No fear of nothing especially of another man , gay or not! Yet the first four books had a week soft man and then the male man. The sex was great in all 8 and it was almost equal for both. I could only hear 1/2 of books 2 to 4. Had it not been for book 5. I was going to return the series

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Quantity over Quality! Beware!!!

I was too far in to return this for my credit back so attempted to get thru but literally couldn’t. My fault for trying to maximize bang for my buck with the box set.

If you like whinny, self loathing characters, who constantly do the opposite of the thing they just spent 20 minutes saying they were gonna do and with dumb, hard for the narrator to pronounce names then these crap-tastic stories might be for you.

I literally didn’t get 100% thru a single book and frustratedly haven’t even attempted to start the last 3.

Narrator wasn’t terrible but some of his choices of voices for the characters and some very noticeable pronunciation stubbles on top of the already bad writing and characters and I just couldn’t get thru these.

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Good reading of a poor quality series of books

While Mr. Russo does a pretty good job of bringing the characters to life the one dimensional characters and predictable storylines are trite and overworked

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LOVE LOVE LOVE

I enjoyed each and every story! The performance was one of the best and the stories well written!

A mixture of really good and not so hot.

The story is themselves were different enough to be interesting and highlighted many LGBTQ dynamics and difficulties. however, as a boxed set, they became just formulaic enough to become tedious. the characters were enjoyable and the social dynamics supported their development. The short stories were easier to engage and remain connected with without overly entwined subplots. Nick J Russo generally nailed the voices and the emotional tones for the characters, especially the bad guys. The boxed set and the story lines may have none him a disservice. by the 48th hour, when the details began to be distracting, focus on his vocals and the details of his speech became distracting at time. Having speech and enunciation became a distraction, especially his tendency to add "L's" to words that end in "-aw" detracted from the story for me. I think it would have gone unnoticed in the individual books.

Is Pine Cove a real place?

Mika, Emory (I probably spelled that wrong), Lee, and Oliver were my favorites. I loved every story. And the performance was perfection!

Loved it

Amazing well received kept my attention throughout the entire audio delivery of the story, will listen to again.

This collection is amazing!

What a fantastic value! Every story was 5/5! I really detested Emory…. which means he was wonderfully written. Micah and Swifts story was probably my fave! Thank you!