One of my favourite Sloane Kennedy books

I read Retribution when it first came out and fell in love with Tate, Hawk and Matty. Listening to the book reminded me why I fell in love with them and also gives you a different experience than reading it yourself. The narrator is brilliant and really brings Sloanes characters to life. I would defiantly recommend listening to this book on audio.

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Perfect Narration

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, I already loved Hawke, Tate and Matty on paper but the narration brought them to life and don't get me started on the different voices Joel Leslie used on different characters, superb!!!

What other book might you compare Retribution to, and why?

Broken Pieces, the use of different voices when different characters are talking, I love that

What about Joel Leslie’s performance did you like?

He brought the emotions by the characters out so well and made me fall in love with them all over again

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Retributionis brilliant

I was given a free copy for a honest review but I've already brought and read the previous books and listened to them I would of definitely brought this. If you have read the books , you know how Sloane brings the characters to life and your living their lives through her but now through audible and Joel Leslie you land up feeling your sitting in the same room as them . I will definitely be keep buying these on audible even though I've got all her books.

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my favourite of the first three!

*verified Audible purchase June 2017*

This is book three in the Protectors series. You don’t NEED to have read/listened to books one and two, but I think you SHOULD. It will give you a better picture of this group of people and what they do, and how Hawke came to at the head. And you know, FIVE star listens, people!

For ten years, Hawke has been searching for the men who killed his wife and unborn son. Meeting Tate makes him feel again, something he didn’t think was possible. He certainly never thought it possible he would feel for a MAN.

I loved books one and two, and I loved this one too! I again cannot split the narration from the story, so not even gonna try. So I apologise if this review jumps around a bit!

Hawke loved his wife, bone deep, and when she was murdered, it broke. He’s spent the last ten years as head of an organisation that delivers justice to those let down by the law. The revenge for his wife’s death is a long time coming but he’s getting close and Tate is his link. His reaction to Tate is . . . unexpected. And when Hawke realises why Tate is running, his protectiveness goes into overdrive.

It’s no secret I’m not a fan of READING first person books, particularly if they are multi person but I find I’m really enjoying LISTENING to first person books, ESPECIALLY if they are multi point of view! Joel Leslie is a MASTER at his craft, at narrating multi point of view, in the first person! I simply CANNOT fault the narration. The way Leslie gets every single heart wrenching thought that Hawke has: thinking about his wife, ad what his growing feelings for Tate mean. Every fear that Tate has: that his father will find him, that Hawke might hurt him, that he might lose his little boy. This is not a short listen, over 8 hours and I listened to it in one single siting. I tried to stop, I really did but I needed to know what would happen, how this would play out. It takes a single question from Ronan (Salvation, book 2) to break Hawke. The same question broke me too! And I sobbed at that point, great heart wrenching sobs at the emotion that Leslie pours out of Hawke.

Of course, Leslie can only narrate the words given him, but Kennedy is fast becoming a favourite of mine. The way she intertwines multi level stories, from book to book, is amazing. Sometimes, series lose their . . .what’s the word . . .ethos, as it moves along but not so here. They hold true to their meaning, and I cannot wait to see where this series goes.

I LOVE that I have 9 more books to get through BUT I’ve discovered that Michael Pauley narrates book 4, Forsaken, and I’m not sure how I feel about that! I’ll buy it, without a doubt, but it will be interesting to see how Pauley portrays the voices that Leslie has done up to now.

So, because I can’t split the narration, because I listened in one day, and just bloody I can . . .

5 stars for the book

5 stars for the narration

5 stars overall

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Hawk and Tate

Both of these men have been through horrifying ordeals and to come out the other side together was wonderful to listen to. Superb book and narration. So glad they can be together with nothing in there way

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Pulled me in from the first word

Wow. Just.... wow.

This was an absolutely stunning audio - the story was great, as is to be expected from Sloane Kennedy, but the audio was absolutely wonderful. The story is told in alternating PoV and there was never a doubt whose voice I was listening to - Tate and Hawk had very different personas not only in the accent/style but inflection, emotion and pacing and it worked beautifully. And Matty? At no point did this sound like an adult doing a kids voice, but instead it was a young boy, with all the feels a young boy has.

This audio makes you live the story, not listen to it and I highly recommend it.

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Great story!

What made the experience of listening to Retribution the most enjoyable?

I was given a free copy for a honest review.
I loved the story of Tate and Hawke, so intense and sweet!

What did you like best about this story?

I like the intensity of the story and all the obstacles that the two men have to face to find their happy ending

What does Joel Leslie bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I liked Joel Leslie's voice, he was able to make real Tate and Hawke

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