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  • All Cocks Stories, Book 4
  • By: T. M. Smith
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)
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Dare to Hope

By: T. M. Smith
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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Summary

Tristan is the second oldest of the Brennan brothers and the odd man out. Most of the Brennan men have careers in law enforcement, but as a psychiatrist, Tristan chooses to help people in a different way. Quiet and restrained, he is content to hover in the background of his more gregarious brothers. Then he meets two men, each broken and damaged from losses beyond their control.

Gabriel Simenson is mourning his lover's death. The random act of violence that took Gio's life has left everyone at All Cocks reeling. The only thing keeping Gabe from drowning in misery is the friendship he's forged with Micah, the newest model at All Cocks. He continues to struggle, and at the urging of his All Cocks family Gabe agrees to counseling with Tristan under one condition: Micah must go with him.

Micah Solo can relate to unbearable loss, having lost his leg and so much more in Iraq. The past two years he has been alone, adrift and vulnerable - the memories of war haunting his dreams, spilling over into his daily life. At All Cocks, Micah has found the acceptance he craves and the family he lost, but still he yearns for happiness and peace within.

The friendship between the three is instant, the mutual attraction evident. They circle each other, wanting more, yet unsure if it is truly possible. Is life the mundane reality they've each come to accept for themselves or do they dare to hope?

The All Cocks Stories is a series set within the world of online gay porn. Micah's PTSD is told in detail, including flashbacks to his time in Iraq.

©2016 TM Smith (P)2017 TM Smith

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as good as the ebook

The story is always 4 or 5 stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B

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Friends to Lovers 'thruple'

This is one series of books that I only listen to on audio because I love the way Joel portrays the characters.
Dare to Hope is Micha, Gabe and Tristan’s story. Gabe lost his Partner Gio in book 3 and Micha a former Soldier suffers from PTSD and suffers flashbacks. He lost his leg and everyone in his platoon in Iraq and suffers flashbacks. Micha and Gabe are friends helping each other through difficult times. Tristan (Jon’s brother, from How to Deal) is a Therapist and is also helping them come to terms with everything. All three are friends and are attracted to each other. There is a slow build up to the three of them expressing their feelings and eventually admitting they want a relationship with each other becoming a ‘thruple’. I would have liked more of the story with the three after they became the ‘thruple’, but the firm friendship needed to be established first.
This can be listened to as stand alone but I think it makes it more enjoyable to have listened (or read) the first three books.

Joel Leslie really knows how to craft a story to bring out the emotions and individuality of each character

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yummy and wonderful.. so much fun and sexy.. so many good characters and personalities.. the emotions were real and raw and the narrator did a good job with all of it.

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It could not grasp me

There were two things wrong, in my opinion. First, a big chunk of the text is about other characters from previous novels. Second, it was all tell and no show. I like to feel what the mc's feel and for that, I need mentioning of some emotions and introspection.

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