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Friday, May 15, 2020

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW⤏ THE HARDEST FALL

BY ELLA MAISE

    NARRATED BY LIDIA DORNET & ALEXANDER CENDESE



    SYNOPSIS FROM AUTHORS WEBSITE⇣
    The first time you meet someone, you make eye contact. You smile, say hello. Should be simple, if you’re anyone but me. The first time I met Dylan Reed, I found myself making eye contact with a different part of his body. You see, I’m very good at being shy, not to mention extremely well-versed in rambling nonsense and, unfortunately, rather highly skilled at making a fool of myself in front of a guy I’m attracted to.
    At the time, I knew nothing about him and thought none of what I said would matter since I’d never speak to him again. Turns out, I was very wrong. He was the star wide receiver of the football team, one of the few players expected to make it into the NFL, and I ended up seeing him all over campus.
    I might have also propositioned him, run away from him, attacked him with a cooking utensil…and…uh, maybe I shouldn’t tell you all of it. It’s pretty normal stuff, things you’d expect…from me. Eventually, the time came when I couldn’t hide anymore—not that he’d have let me even if I tried.
    Before now, he never knew I was secretly watching him. Now that we see each other every day, he knows when I have a hard time looking away. It doesn’t help that I’m not the most subtle person in the world either.
    He smiles at me and tells me he finds me fascinating because of my quirks. I can’t even tell him that I think my heart beats differently whenever he’s around.
    He thinks we’re going to be best friends. I think I have a big thing for him, and the more I get to know him, the more I don’t care that I’m not allowed to be his friend, let alone fall for him.
    The thing is, that’s exactly what I’m doing—what we’re doing, I think.
    Falling.
    Hard.


    BOOK TAGS

     NEW ADULT
     CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
     FOOTBALL
     SECRETS & SCANDALS
    ⤏ LENGTH OF AUDIO - 11 HOURS, 54 MINUTES
     I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY






    MY THOUGHTS⇣


    Narration in a romance is not always easy to pull off without it sounding cheesy...but there a few that do an amazing job at it.  Lidia Dornet is one of them...and Alexander Cendese could use some work on his female voices...they sound kind of silly, but other than that he's not bad and he can say baby or babe and make it feel so genuine.  I listened to this all in one shot while working and I didn't stop till I was finished with it.

    I loved this...the story, the characters...all of it.  I haven't been inspired to read a new adult sports romance in some time, but something about this one...the cover and the synopsis spoke to me.  So glad I gave it a shot...I'm definitely going to listen to a couple other books by Ella Maise that my library has...and maybe, I'll have found another author of romance that I love.


    BREAKDOWN⇣

    Narration Rating 4¾ STARS
    Plot 5/5
    Characters 5/5
    The Feels 5/5
    Pacing 5/5
    Addictiveness 5/5
    Theme, Tone or Intensity 5/5
    Originality/Believability 5/5
    Flow (Writing Style) 5/5
    Romance/Chemistry 5/5
    Steaminess to Story Ratio 20/80
    Ending 5/5



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