Fabulous

Just love Stephanie Hudson and this is an amazing start to a new series I love that in intertwines with her other series

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A must read/listen.

This was my first Stephanie Hudson book and it will not be my last ! The story line was hard to get at first though once it gets going, it’s amazing the twist and turns keep you wanting more. Stephanie has worked magic the way she has given just a little glimpses at a time into the ‘Amelia’s world’. The build up of energy between the MC’s, each chapter you are waiting for the explosion!
Looking forward to book two!!
Plus hoping Amelia will get her story told, please please.

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Gripping

Love these books, I’ve read them, now I’m listening to them, fabulous, I definitely recommend giving them a go!

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Loved reading this book

Great story but the narrator was really bad. Spoilt it for me. Her male voice wasn’t grr enough and some of her words spoken in the English accent were horribly distracting.

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Great book, rubbish narration

As with all of Stephanie Hudson’s books I have read, they are very enjoyable.
HOWEVER I am not entirely sure what accent Alyssa Avery was trying to hit but someone needs to tell her that missing some vowels and consonants out of the odd word does not constitute a British accent (if that was the aim).
It made listening to the audio book hard work, as some of the words she crucified were painful to take.
If she had just stuck to her natural American accent it would have been a really good listen.

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Stephanie did it again

I'm an audible addict and have been waiting not so patiently for this book and it was well worth the wait lucky I have the paperback of the next in the series as I could not wait to see what happens next. Love the characters Stephanie you rock.

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Great book

Love these stories but strange accented narrative that I found distracting. Stephanie’s imagination is out there and I love being taken into her fantasy world.

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Entertaining

It took a little while to get into the book but once in I couldn’t put it down. I have bought the other books in the series to follow the story on. It reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, but more dark. The accent of the narrator made me smile sometimes but it did not detract from the story. Well written.

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Excellent story, poor narrator

As always Stephanie Hudson creates an amazing story for us in The After Life series.....but the narrator & that awful English(?) accent is extremely distracting. Dropping the T's in her pronunciations is grinding...and what has she done to Lucius? He has never previously been given a ham accent, it's almost painful to listen to.
Hats off to Stephanie for taking us into new depths of the amazing world she has created

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Surprised!!

So this is the first book, of a new series, based in the "Afterlife" universe. It's a great introduction to Jared and his world, other than the glimpses we've had in prior books of different series.

Now to be honest the book is worth five stars, but in the end I could only give it four. Now I imagine you wondering why I'd do that, if I believed it to be a five star book, well the answer is this....

There are a lot of grammatical errors throughout and yes it surprised the absolute hell out of me too. After all, Stephanie's books hardly have any errors at all!!

But it seems that the ball has definitely been dropped in this case. They're errors that should have been picked up by the following, if not herself, those being the proofreading and editing teams....and if she has one....her ARC group. These are definitely things I'd have picked up on and emailed them back to her, as it's what I do for the seven authors in which, I'm in their ARC teams and one author I'm a Beta reader for prior to it then going to her ARC group!!

So because of this I could not, in good conscience, give the full five stars. Sorry Stephanie 🤷🤷

Now onto the story itself....

Just like all of Stephanie's books, the story is great. It has everything any reader looks for.

*There's the love interest, Jared and Ella.

*There's plenty of action

*Lots of fear

*Lots of pain

*Kidnapping

*Death

*Tears

*And finally, but not least....threats made by both enemies and over bearing and over protective alphaholes!! 🙄🙄

In other words, what more could you possibly want?? It has everything going on and it keeps the metaphorical pages turning, from front to back and then ready and eager for the next book.

Now with this book is the option of buying the audio too. Now I like to listen at the same time as I'm reading my books, if there is that option. With the right narrator it can really up the enjoyment.

The narrator with this book is a woman called Alyssa Avery, and I have to admit that her accent just really throws me.

Now don't get me wrong, she's brilliant with the different accents, but it's the accent of Ella in which I'm finding myself confused by....🙉🙉🤔🤔

She's supposed to have an accent that is American with a hint of Liverpudlian, as her mother is from Liverpool England. However, her accent seems to be more like a Cockney with a hint of American. I wonder if anyone else has picked this up too 🤔🤔

But if you can ignore the confusing accent, then trust me it's worth listening too, as she hits all the others without issue and it does help to heighten the enjoyment of the book. So I'm going to recommend both 😏😉

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