Harrison
The Level Series, Book 1
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Harrison
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Narrated by:
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Will Thorne
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Faye Adele
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By:
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VR Tennent
About this listen
Violet Chase has always been off-limits. The girl I wanted... but could never have.
In my teens, her father warned me to keep my hands to myself. Boys like me don't get girls like her. His family saved me, and I owed them. Her brothers, my best friends, made it clear where I stood: below them.
We had one stolen moment of passion, then I ran. That was fourteen years ago, and I've regretted it ever since. Now, she's back in London, but life for both of us is very different. Her past decade has been filled with lies that she thought were true. The last place she ever expected to return to was here, begging her family for help.
As my career blossoms, my world darkens. Whether being a lawyer for a mafia don was a wise move remains to be seen. A booming bank account is accompanied by an ever-increasing target on my back. External pressures pull in all directions while my heart knows what it wants. It always has. Violet.
The question is, can we navigate the challenges to be together? Or once again, will we both run?
This steamy contemporary romantic suspense is intended for mature listeners.
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Violet comes across to me as a gullible, submissive mouse and I repeatedly wanted to shake her. Harrison isn't much better when it comes to dealing with members of Violet's family and I don’t believe that he’d put up with the rubbish he's subjected to from Violet’s father and older brother. Though I could believe that Violet's mum was under the thumb of her husband, I couldn't buy into both brothers being equally subservient to his inhumane brutality.
Harrison being willing to sign his part of their law firm over to the brothers didn't ring true, nor did the decision to have Violet stay with Harrison's housekeeper (in the same block as him and both her brothers), after she's rescued (again!). Any Irish mafia don friend would hardly turn up to prevent an abduction without a significant number of his men in tow and Harrison needed his bumps feeling when he decided to take the Porsche out, rather than something less obvious. Those are only a small sample of the impossible things we're expected to swallow and the totality made me cross with the novel.
They come after some pretty egregious examples of poor writing. When you're writing a first person, dual POV tale, you don't need a character to describe their own appearance to the audience. Hearing Violet tell me what she looks like, how long her hair is, what shape her body is in or what her mouth looks like felt as though a chat bot was trying to turn me on. Harrison should tell the audience these facts! There are numerous other examples of poor writing style but this one put me off from the beginning and I didn't really recover much respect for the style of Ms Tennent (the author) from that point onwards.
The whole novel was far too long and just returned repeatedly to Violet being yanked back home or threatened by her father or ex-partner time and again. It should have been ruthlessly butchered by a well-meaning and wise editor and at least one third of it discarded. The quality of the sound recording was good (better than many others I’ve heard) but the narrators didn't hit the right voices which could have brought the characters to life for me. Ms Adele sounds quite young for the age of the FMC and rather too weak and subservient even for the character, let alone to suit my taste. Mr Thorne doesn't have either the growl of a protective alpha nor the polish of an urbane lawyer for me to feel any attraction to the character who is supposed to be our hero.
This was free from the Plus catalogue when I listened to it but I’m afraid it didn't induce me to either purchase it or to purchase other novels in the series by Ms Tennent. Deleted from my devices and removed from my library.
Poor plot, badly written and with only marginally better narration.
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