Lorien Auer

a Solid okay

Revisado: 10-09-22

Fell a bit flat for me, the story was cute. But I just couldn't get into it. I think some more about a guy writing in an industry largely written and purchased by women would have been nice. And the comments about the spiciness of his writing by other women felt odd. I could joke about vibrator batteries with friends, not a stranger I just met at a pool.

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Delightful

Revisado: 08-26-22

This was just pure sweetness injected into my - well ears I guess.
The actors/narrators really seemed to be enjoying themselves even.
Just imagine one of your favorite rom-coms and but as a lower budget radio play.

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Touching and kind of adorable

Revisado: 04-24-22

Lucy Parker and Billie Fulford-Brown have become a bit of an auto buy for me. Parker's writing can get a little angsty at bits, but for the most part is pretty light and funny. although this book had some very touching parts about family, that even made me cry a bit. The only thing that felt odd was the interactions with the royals, I get they are people, but also there were a lot of personal things aired in front of two bakers.

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Would have been an okay book without the FMC

Revisado: 08-13-21

I probably would have dnf'd this if it hadn't been on audio. David Monteath the narrator I think tried, but I just couldn't. Maybe a female narrator would have made Tara less ridiculous or insipid, but I doubt it. What's funny is all the other characters where okay, I didn't love any of them, but I didn't hate them. Tara was the one who dragged it all down.
Also I got tired of the whole "virgin" sacrifice deal. I guess it's a good excuse to bang (yep the only way to stop the baddy is to bang it out) , but I know I'm not the only one who's tired of the idea that putting a P in a V is all that magical. Or anti magical in this case.

Also the romance was too cheesy for me and some the language was too purple prose for me. Just not my cup of tea.

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Boring and unoriginal,

Revisado: 04-18-21

I Hate finished this.
An Americanized isekai for straight men who haven't ever played video a game in the last decade, or have somehow avoided Sword Art Online.
The MC of this thing is Gunner, a skinny, anti social gamer boy who doesn't have friends, somehow has a nice girlfriend and one of the "lucky" 5 million people murdered by the game maker.
Trying to keep this brief, the premise is Gunner sucks at life until he is sucked into Eden's Gate where suddenly he unlocks all his real potential to be a real boy once he is permanently sucked into a video game world. I got the feeling he was trying to come off as awkward, but he turned out just being kinda skeevy, I lost count of his internal dialogue of the NPC's and Monsters boobs. The book takes place over 6 days and somehow by the end of it suddenly Gunner finds value in friends and has morals. He also has plains by the end to date an elf girl while his girlfriend is likely in the game with him.
And to top off this thing the Doctor who murdered 5 million people, who trapped them all involuntarily into a boring Tolkien rip off world, is written as a good man who gave all these people a better life. He faces no punishment for what he did. They make it sound like every person in the game is better off. Completely ignoring the fact that there had to be children and family members in the game now who are separated from their families.
There is also the really unbelievable part of the story of US government agreeing on anything and enacting a plan of action with in a week. Having my soul sucked into a video game is more believable.

I should add the narrator was alright, I didn't love him , but he did okay on all the non female characters.

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It was a solid okay

Revisado: 04-09-21

I really liked the premise and the start of this book, but the scarred aristocrat/duke who can't be loved because he's so hideous, has been done a few times already and by the last 3rd I was a little bored with this one. Plus it just got a little cheesier than I liked.
The narrator did a pretty good job too.

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This is one of my new favorites!

Revisado: 08-28-17

Who was your favorite character and why?

I enjoyed both the main characters, but Emma was especially enjoyable for the shear lack of time she spent sitting around feeling sorry for herself.

Have you listened to any of Mary Jane Wells’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but no I want to listen to all of them now, she is defiantly my new favorite narrator. She puts fantastic emotion behind the characters and I could almost always tell them apart from each and the narrating. I had to go read the the paper back version to to decide if it was just the narrator that made me enjoy the book.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Unicorn vomit, of all things, made me almost snort coffee out of my nose.

Any additional comments?

Only a few other authors have ever made me laugh out loud as much as Ms. Dare did, and I didn't think I'd find another romance author I enjoy as much as Julia Quinn.

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great but off

Revisado: 06-20-17

My friend told i read this but i dont like reading so i did this instead the readers voices sounded the same for most the characters but then I find it hard to make up so many voices so overall it's a great story, awesome plot, and lovable character.

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