Deal Maker
Mixed Messages, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Joel Leslie
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By:
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Lily Morton
About this listen
Sometimes your mouth makes deals that your heart can’t honour.
Jude is a highly successful model, but a very reluctant one. His life is full of casual hook-ups with pretty men in glamorous locations, but it’s still empty. However, circumstances decreed a long time ago that this was his path, so he’s resolutely stayed on it and accepted his fate with good grace. He made a deal with himself and his hook-ups. Get in, get out, and no ties with anyone.
However, an accident at home one night leads to him making a new deal and accepting the offer of help from an unlikely source. It leads to an unexpected summer of falling in love with a larger-than-life man and his child. But by the end of the summer his reasons for not staying are still valid. Will he turn away? Can he?
Asa is a talented actor who has spent time away from the scene to look after his son. But now he’s back, and the last thing he needs are complications from the gorgeous man who is staying with him. Scarred from too many betrayals, he has no intention of forming a lasting tie with anyone. However, he can’t resist the beautiful man with secrets, and to his horror he develops feelings.
But a deal’s a deal and they said it was just for the summer. What can Asa do with a man who has forever in his eyes and goodbye on his lips?
From the Amazon best-selling author of Rule Breaker comes another scorchingly hot romantic comedy.
This is the second book in the Mixed Messages series but it can be read as a stand-alone.
©2017 Lily Morton (P)2019 Lily MortonGood book
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Jude ends up staying with Asa and his young boy, Billy, when his flat is flooded. What follows, at least to begin with is a lot of prejudice balanced out with hi-jinks, acting, fun and games as the two men take time to actually learn each other, accidentally bringing feelings into their relationship.
There were so many laugh out loud moments throughout the story, I was getting quite a few weird looks as I walked the dog with my headphones in! Billy has a lot to do with these. Despite Jude and Asa being our MC's who have so much going on themselves and together, I think he has to be my favourite character from this. So much innocence, cheek and brilliance that only a six year old can bring you. There was a lot of drama to balance it out. Asa being an actor means the media thinks he's open to them and revelations bring all of them together as confessions and support are given.
It's a roller-coaster of emotions as we move through the story. We most hear from Jude's POV with Asa occasionally popping up but I like the consistency it offers as he struggles to connect and deal with feelings that he doesn't want to have for these people that are becoming so important to him when he's got his own problems back home. It doesn't stop the chemistry that the men have though, especially once the decision is made to give in and share those moments together.
Such a fantastic story. Loved pretty much everything, the family and friends that Jude has in his corner and the support system that Asa has in place is both funny and endearing with the mix of characters. We get quite a bit from Dylan and Gabe, from Rule Breaker, book 1 in the series, and it's always great to have returning characters. Another added bonus is the fan mail replies that each chapter begins with. Laugh out loud funny every time.
Joel Leslie, well hell. What a stunning piece of narration this was. I think he encapsulated each character perfectly, they all were given their own voices and personalities which match up to Lily's writing and I was drawn straight in to the story and the world that the author has created. The highs and lows were performed so well with the emotion in the narrators voice bringing out all of the feels, fun, love, friendship, anguish, pain and tension.
I cannot recommend this enough. It's definitely going to be a regular re-listen for me and I now need to go back and find Rule Breaker to listen to as I loved reading that one and eager to hear how Joel brings that story to life.
Favourite listen of 2019!
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Awesome.....worth 10 star
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Joel Leslie takes this book to a whole new level and further enhanced my enjoyment of this story, his accents are brilliant and he portrays Billy exactly as I imagined. He conveys emotions incredibly and made the funny moments even funnier with his delivery. I found myself smiling the whole time I was listening.
Great entertainment
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