Entirely engrossing

Most men are more romantic than women give credit, and this series is about ultimate romance and total commitment regardless anything else. It is the discovery and rediscovery of true love, albeit in exciting and stressful situations. Tess’ soft and intimate whispers binds the story and makes it real.

This is the only series of audible books I fully intend to listen to again.

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good but not gteat

was'nt as keen on it as the first. i found the swiching to so many characters off-putting. some of thos chapters could be skipped without any impact upon the story and i've found that the vampires and werewolves are severely underdeveloped as races. though more time was spent on then in this book, i found them far to cardboard to care much about their history or impact. alex grew to a new level of awsome though, so i can't say i regret reading this one. all in all it was a bit to convoluted and housed a few too many plot points for me. i may listen to it again but i'd end up skipping to the good parts.

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Best episode out of the 3

As with the other episode, it took me a short while to get used to the voice of Tess Irondale speaking for all characters. After a few minutes though, it is almost naturally easy to listen to. Excellent story-telling voice. The story itself, well, I read the book, before I listened to it, so following the story with it's flashbacks comes easy to me. I find this book the best out of the 3, because of a couple of things; - the relationship between Alex, Lorelei and Rachel deepens and blossoms to full bloom - The action scenes are good (and there's more than just one big one) - The undercover/ betrayal really gets under my skin - The history of Lorelei almost made me weep, such a tragic, sad story Really good story and excellent story-telling!

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Angels & demons with attitude. Just good fun.

No spoilers here, if this is how the afterlife is with Angels and demons it could be fun.

My preference when getting my head down at night, knowing that it will probably not be long before I nod off, is something that leaves me with a genuine feel good factor. No downers, just makes me smile a little; then when I wake up it is no problem finding somewhere to pick it all up from again the next night. Even if this means re-listening to 15 minutes or more of what I have already heard, due to the story trundling on all the way to the end whilst I slept e.g. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Old Harrys game, Revolting people.... even Lord of the rings can all still fit the bill for me in this respect; if I have not listened to them for quite some time.

On starting to listen to this I thought I had made a mistake and I had bought the male version of fifty shades of grey for frustrated teenage adolescent boys (not read/listened to 50 shades myself as yet but hey...only going by the hype it received at the time honest)
Even though the sex descriptions were not too graphic and were amusing at times, I initially thought this is not for me. But I do hate to give up on anything once purchased and seldom stay alert enough to realise it is time to roll over and hit the stop button. I found myself loving the characters more and more as the stories went on and the relationships gradually developed and then subsequently changed. The females were much more interesting than the males as the males seemed to be rather one dimensional and wooden in comparison, except for perhaps Jason but it does not spoil anything in the listening. All the female characters are quite different and I could actually picture certain actresses playing and developing the various characters in a film version. Charlize Theron & Sigourney Weaver would make great Demons in any of the main demon characters and the foul mouthed Angel with attitude, Rachael would I suspect be a part to die for.

I have now listened to all 5 books (says it all) and found them light hearted fun and would not put anybody off trying them for themselves. I thought the stories got better as it went on from book to book, with the sex interludes & descriptions becoming shorter and less often; balance was about right over the 4 main books; after all you can only describe a boy on girl, girl on girl, threesomes etc so many times without it becoming repetitive and boring.
No orgies included so perhaps there will be one more book to allow for the inclusion of one with the Angel, Demons, Witches, Vampires, Werewolves and of course the people all being able to participate in some minor way before the inevitable flight or fight to end it all.

The narration was excellent but Tess Irondale had to work very hard with so many voices to do and the one small improvement I would liked to have heard would have been a male voice play the male characters. Not surprised Tess muddled the voices of the witches in the 2.5 short stories book with so many characters to remember and even though OK I would probably say this book is the poorest of the 5 and the gaps it was trying to fill did not really need plugging.

Often hear actresses complaining that there are no good parts for woman in films these days but I think it would be fun to get a host of the best actresses in the world to have a free hand to develop and ad lib all these characters in a film. Obviously they would not be up for the sex scenes as written but with an all female director, film crew etc "it could all be done in the best possible taste" to quote a once famous DJ.

Would add Michael Sheen as the Angel Daniel and possibly Anna Kendrick as Taylor in my film version of the books but suspect others will be able to come up with some good suggestions for the multitude of characters.

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Fun fantasy for "adults,"

Fun fantasy for "adults," demons, angels, and witches with some erotica mixed in for good measure

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