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Hugh

By: Gabbi Grey
Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
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Hugh

Having spent more than twenty years as an emergency medicine physician in war zones around the world, I barely have a home to speak of. A daughter I didn’t know about has died and left a child behind, so I must get to Gaynor Beach, California to claim my granddaughter. Her temporary guardian is the first man to spark my interest in a very long time, but it would be inappropriate for me to have a relationship with this much-younger man.

Oscar

Gutted by my best friend’s death, I take solace in the daughter she left in my guardianship. I’ll protect this precious baby with all I have, and no one is going to take her away from me—least of all the man who turns up on our doorstep claiming to be her grandfather. Despite the resemblance, I plan to keep him at arm’s length. I’m going to show him how capable I am. But I might also lose my heart in the process.

This is a hurt/comfort, interracial, age-gap, MM romance novel with a moderate amount of angst.

©2022 Gabbi Grey (P)2024 Gabbi Grey
Multicultural Romance Feel-Good Heartfelt

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The story is very sweet. Hugh only finds out that he had a daughter when his daughter dies and now he travels halfway around the world to see his granddaughter. Oscar looks after Hugh's daughter's baby. Then there's the social worker Anthony, who doesn't like Oscar at all.
Hugh and Oscar have an attraction right from the start, but not much happens for a long time. Slowly, slowly, slowly. A lot of it is about how they can raise the baby. I like it when there are children in a story, but when the rest of the story moves so slowly and almost fades into the background, I don't find it all that exciting.
But the story with a big age gap and the slowly growing feelings for each other is very sweet.

Michael Ferraiuolo delivered a brilliant performance. He really nailed the emotions and it was a pleasure to listen to his performance

A sweet story

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This was such a sweet story built out of the ashes of tragedy.

Trigger warning for off page drug addiction and death of a loved one by OD.

This was a lovely and deeply emotional story. Hugh lost his daughter he didn’t know existed and Lucas lost his best friend. They both join together to keep her baby out of foster care. This was well written with wonderful loveable characters. Not just the 2 MCs but the whole town that pitches in to help them. This was a very heartwarming story with plot that I couldn’t stop reading. I’ve read this author before and this book was much longer than others I have read by them but I still read this in one read and couldn’t put it down. It wasn’t steamy at all. It was a super slow burn but I didn’t even mind. It was just so sweet. I loved every minute of it. This was pretty darn perfect. I absolutely would recommend it.

The narrator did a great job. He expressed the emotions really well and brought the story to life. He kept a good flow and I found his voice/accent pleasant to listen too. He gave all the characters, even the side characters, their own distinct voice making it a great listen.

sweet single dad romance

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Hugh and Oscar are a wonderful couple brought together by tragedy and their commitment to raising a child. Initially wary of each other, they find their continual exposure leads to much deeper feelings than either expected. Oscar's initial scepticism of Hugh's sudden appearance and claimed relationship made perfect sense and Hugh's reluctance to get involved with the younger Oscar after everything he'd experienced also worked for me. I loved that both of these guys were decent men just trying to do their best and winning in that process. Michael Ferraiuolo dis his usual superb job of taking us inside both of these characters and letting us feel what they feel.

Wonderful couple

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We meet Hugh, who unbeknown to him is a granddad, not even knowing he had a child, let alone a grand-daughter; his life is about to change,

Oscar, his best friend, died of an overdose, and he's inherited her daughter and is now a single dad. How is he going to cope? He is struggling with the grief of losing his best friend whilst looking after a nine month old, and then Hugh turns up on his doorstep,

Anthony is the social worker who hates Oscar and, in Oscar's eyes, killed his best friend. Anthony is horrid but gets his own story in the next book.

It's a good story, and I loved the characters, apart from Anthony,

Michael Ferraiuolo did an excellent job of narrating this book. As usual, I did speed up the recording to 1.25 on Audible.

Hugh
By: Gabbi Grey
Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
Series: Single Dads of Gaynor Beach Romance, Book 1
Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

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Read at 1.25 speed on Audible

I received this audiobook for free from GRR at my request. My review is my opinion and an honest review - neither the author nor GRR influenced my opinion.

MM - Single dad and Granddad

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- age gap, single dad, small town

This was an easy read/listen story, with a sweet story, nice MCs, and a cute baby. The main problem was it was slooooow, too slow. Nothing important happens, it spans only a few days and the story is almost all centered around the baby and the MCs caring for her. While I love single dads tropes and seeing the baby/child on page, I also like seeing the romance spark, which this one didn´t. There's some insta-lust going on, but we don't really see the love growing (as I said, it only spans a few days and they start off on the wrong foot, to begin with).

I had some other minor issues with this too, a few things didn't make much sense, but that wouldn't matter as much if the couple made more sense or if we had a couple to cheer for. It felt forced, somehow.

5 stars for the performance, though. Michael nailed it, but nothing surprising there

Sweet, but no sparks

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