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A Match Made in Hate

Dark & Dirty Vows, Book 1

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A Match Made in Hate

By: Morgan Bridges
Narrated by: Allie Shae, Aiden Snow
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I hated her before I even knew her name.

My bride. The daughter of my enemy. She's nothing more than a part of my revenge.

I'm the one who holds her life in my hands. As well as her body. And soon, her very will. Yet, she refuses to break.

This woman disarms me, not with weapons but with words. And not with a fist, but with a simple kiss. But a match made in hate can have no other ending except war.

This is book one in the Dark & Dirty Vows series which is intended for mature listeners. Welcome to the dark side...

©2021 Building Bridges Publishing (P)2024 Podium Audio Contemporary Romantic Suspense

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I love all books read by Auden Snow I could listen to his narration all day and all night. Thank you for brightening my day with all your hard work.

Definitely worth a read

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I loved the narrators' performances. I enjoyed the story and found the FMC to be strong, smart, and interesting. The narrative includes dark elements, and there is great chemistry between the characters.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️

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Excellent story im really looking forward to reading more in this series. Excellent narration highly recommend reading

Loved this book

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I really enjoyed the narrators voices and how you’d imagine the characters. I found the story lacking.

Narration was very good, matching character

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Plot is exactly what you'd expect from this type of novel. FMC is beautiful; intelligent; inwardly sassy yet has been appallingly mistreated by her father; has been confined to her room for years and is to be wed off to someone to serve her father's need for more power. Apart from being the abuser of his daughter, her father has murdered her mother and he's a sex-trafficker. You get the picture, right?

The MMC is incredibly hot; short-tempered; the youngest member of an American mafia family headed by his eldest brother, only 5 years his senior. Their Mum was apparently (though not provenly) murdered when the boys were all very young and their father never ceased to grieve for her. The family are trying to carve a niche for themselves as arms traders and are making pretty good progress at the moment. To thwart moves the FMC's father is making to increase his power, the MMC effectively kidnaps her (after he's forced her into marriage in front of her father). So far, so predictable.

There's the usual hoo-ha about whether the FMC is a virgin, whether the pair can learn to love one another and the obvious ways in which a business trip to Paris which the pair go on together (as if!) can fall apart before the plot takes a very obvious turn. The standard mayhem ensues (💥💥/5) for a very brief period of time and relative calm returns.

Characters are stereotypes (including the bossy but loyal older Italian housekeeper), descriptions are limited (though there's quite a bit about the striking colours of the FMC's eyes and hair) and spice (if that's what you want) is there but not particularly graphic or excessive (🌶️🌶️/5). What IS way over the top is the treatment of women (in this case, the FMC) as disposable, tradable commodities. Even after his feelings for the FMC have apparently morphed into some form of care, the MMC still appears to be principally concerned that no-one else should ever even look at her, let alone lay a finger on her.

An element of misogyny is to be expected in novels of this genre, usually marketed as #possessive alpha; #touch her and die; #virgin FMC; #enemies to lovers. For some reason on which I can't exactly place my finger, this one seemed to me to verge far too close to the boundaries of the absolutely distasteful. I can suspend my feminism only so far and this one overstepped the mark, not in ways which were exciting but those which induced the need to get completely clean and then listen to something thoroughly gory and spicy instead (I went for Of Monsters and Mazes by Leanne Belle, also available on Audible).

Narration of the novel is a very mixed bag. I never hesitate to consider anything narrated by Mr Snow whose vocal skills are exceptional. If you love depth in tone and clear enunciation; if you want no mishaps in timing, emphasis or nuance; if you adore the lovely growly, gravelly tones that only a really strong element of creak can produce with a voice, then this man delivers it in spades. Ms Shae's performance was rather a different matter. I've not heard her vocal talents before and the first couple of chapters which she delivered were very strange. She read as though under the influence of a psychedelic substance (though I'm sure that wasn't the case). Her enunciation and pronunciation are clear and precise; she reads fluently and with a degree of emphasis in the right places. I don't think she was very effective in expressing anything deeper than the words on the page though and so any talk of love, loss, longing or hate was just flat and devoid of any real emotion. Her voice is light in tone but she chose to portray the FMC with a voice heavily infused with the breathiness which comes from corsetry that has been far too tightly laced (as opposed to that produced after a long run). I found it off-putting but not to the extent I wouldn't listen to another novel she's involved in.

This one was free from the Plus catalogue when I listened but it's not worth a credit to me. I may purchase one or more of the others if they come up on sale but probably only because I'm a sucker for Mr Snow's voice. This is the first time I've listened to anything by Ms Bridges but, given how stereotypical the tale was, I won't be rushing to listen to anything else. Deleted from my devices.

Typical misogynist tat only saved by half decent narration

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