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Dare Me

By: Stella Rhys
Narrated by: CJ Bloom, John Masterson
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CALLUM - Lake and I never had a chance at normal. She was drop dead gorgeous from day one - our maid's granddaughter who became my mother's spoiled living doll. I hated that girl with all my heart and at the same time, I worshipped every inch of her skin, every word that she spoke. I lived for her and the twisted game of truth or dare we created to feed our f--ked up needs for shock, shame, and one-upping each other. Lake was my drug, my bad lifestyle choice. And I'd fallen in and out of love with her a thousand times till the day she disappeared.

LAKE - I know I ruined Callum Pike and going back to New York may be the worst decision I've ever made, which is saying a lot. But I'm willing to risk it. I never wanted to leave and now that I can, I'm going back - to be with the man I made, who made me. I know I screwed him up. I know he's hardened and become cold. I know the love we had is gone. But I need him now more than ever and no matter how much it hurts, no matter what kind of sick or satisfying way he decides to torment me, I'm going to fight through it. I'm going to repent for the way I broke him and I'm going to find the Callum Pike I loved again - even if it tears me apart.

Contains mature themes.

©2015 Stella Rhys (P)2018 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance
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Such a lovely love story great characters . But so much time going Back in time i didn’t know if I ld skipped chapters, made it difficult to follow

Lovely story . Just difficult to follow when going back in time

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I really enjoyed this story and couldn’t stop listening. Good plot with interesting characters and a captivating love story. Enjoyed the narration, except the questionable Scottish accent, but even that was amusing rather than annoying.

Great story

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Plot is the standard millionaire pseudo-stepbrother/spoilt little madam with secret, seedy family history. Will their unconventional love for one another be strong enough to bring her back to him when her birth family finally suck her in? Will our hero be big enough to ignore alternative "love" options and stay true to our princess? Will she be brave enough to tell him about her past criminal misdeeds and the sordid circumstances in which she's been living since she ran away? Will he forgive her the probably criminal action which finally broke the ties between her and the truly deviant "real" family? Do we care as an audience?

Personally I didn't. Pretty much all of the characters are flat, lifeless stereotypes and I didn't warm to any of them. The birth mother is a "typical" drunk and a junkie (though, having worked with addicts, I can't believe that someone really hooked on injectables can go as long as the 3 or 4 day periods on only light beer that we're expected to believe). The "adoptive" mother is the stereotypical rich, depressed woman whose husband is uninterested and uncaring. The MMC and FMC grow from uncontrolled and overindulged children into what we're asked to believe are relatively successful young people, albeit ones with a penchant for very risque games. Farcical, all of it and there was literally no-one to whom I warmed.

"Spice" (if that's what you're after) is fairly tame for the first third or so, slightly hotter thereafter but nothing to get one seriously hot under the collar - a light simmer, as opposed to a rolling boil.

Then there's the narration - what the f***! John Masterson has a gorgeous American accent and is one of the few male narrators who can voice female pleasure reasonably convincingly. CJ Bloom has a similarly gorgeous US accent and again is pretty good at voicing male pleasure convincingly. Managing a Scots accent? Forget it! Between them both we get Russian, Welsh, Spanish or Portuguese. What we never get is an even halfway creditable attempt at Scots (from any region). Even the vocabulary used is wrong in some places and if you're going to try and write in dialect, you should have the decency to research it properly first. Thon wis awfy minging rot - pure mince mon!

Not one I'll be keeping though I have listened to a longer Stella Rhys novel which I enjoyed more.

Reasonable romance with visible accents

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I really enjoyed this book, but couldn't stand the Scottish accents from the narrators. Not a monumentally earth shattering story but a good way listen, with spice.

Something a bit different in a good way

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Heart wrenching in the most perfect way. CJ Bloom is the most phenomenal narrator. She brought the characters to life as always. And new author for me, well written kept me interested. Listened in two days.

Beautiful

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