Logan's Need

So good!

I’m just beginning Sloane Kennedy’s stand-alone books and with Michael Pauley as the narrator, I’m pretty excited to start! This book was so fantastic! It was sooo hot (hello first time gay), so sexy and it kept me hooked with the story throughout. I could really feel the emotional loss that Dom was experiencing, and at the same time his struggle with maintaining his developing feelings for Logan. Logan has his own set of emotional upheaval with his discovery of his emerging sexuality and how he felt his feelings for Dom was wrong. I’m totally hooked and I can’t wait for the next book of Sloane’s.

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A Good Need

This was a really good read. Logan Bradshaw's dreams go up in smoke and he is left broken and haunted by a cruel betrayal from his former business partner, a man he once thought of as a friend. Dominic Barretti saved him he is going through something his wife Sylvie is dying and he agrees to a threesome with another man so she hires Logan. Neither man expected to feel sparks that they did. When Sylvie does of cancer she sends Logan a letter asking him to take care of Dom. When they find out that the man who shot Logan a raped his sister Savannah is alive Dom goes into protective mode. I really liked how Dom helped Eli the 15 year-old boy that they found working the street. Turns out his sister had been missing for a year and had a boyfriend by the name of Cy who turned out to be Sam the same man that shot Logan. I really liked this book. It was well written like the rest of the books in this series with no errors in grammar or spelling. I am looking forward to reading more about the Barretti's

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Bad Romance but an Exciting End

I selected this story based on the plot description. The idea that a man’s dying wife would audition male escorts as a potential replacement for her sounded intriguing and very thoughtful on the wife’s part. The plot suggests that the wife was aware of her husband Dominic bisexual needs were being placed on hold out of his fidelity to her. An element of nobility is injected into the Logan character early on in that he is peddling his wares as a way of supporting his kid sister after their parent’s death. Alas the execution of this theme was badly handled. The escort, Logan, is introduced as heterosexual!?! He has a big scar down his chest from surgery to remove a bullet from an attempt to kill him. A scarred up body is not a big turn on for most women willing to pay for it. The back and forth mental struggle of am I or am I not gay / bisexual is confusing and ultimately boring in its unfolding as it is just too predictable. The only thing that saves this story from being labeled as romantic dreck is the subplot of a psychotic mass murder, torturer, and rapist that lurks in the background for three quarters of the story to emerge as an exciting finish at the last quarter of the book. This alone rescues the story from a one star rating.

The romantic leads Dom and Logan are so far-fetched as to be unrealistic and implausible. This makes their attraction preposterous and unbelievable. The twists and turns to get to a romantic oneness triggered so many, oh come on now, responses one just can’t believe it all. So as a romance this story fails.

However, the plot twist of Logan’s sister rapist being discovered to have survived a fire he had supposedly died in to rise as a mass murderer and continue to threaten the principals; now that was interesting and worth struggling through the implausible romance. That brings the ratting up from one star to three stars.

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loved it.

I love this series and all of her books. The narrator was clear and pleasant.

the beginning

I think you could say this story is the beginning of the awesome mm stories written by Sloan Kennedy. From here all the rest of the books can trace their path. Michael Pauley brings life to this book.

Michael Pauley is the Bomb!

he brings Dom & Logan to live inbsuchba way that brings shivers all over!! get this! love it as I have!

it was ok

my first issue with this book is there was no trigger warning. I don't know if there is one in the actual print version but there's not one before the audio Bible version starts.
let me start with the pros Michael Paulie always has a great job with narration although I don't think this was his best work he definitely does give any book he married a new level of life. with that being said I'm not sure if it was the format this book was written in but it was hard to tell who's point of view is talking because they switch so fast I prefer books written chapter to chapter . one minute Logan would be telling the story and then immediately Dom would be telling the story and the voices weren't super different so you had to look for clues to say okay.
And now to the story, so it just seemed to be all over the place one minute they were talking about a rape and then they were talking about a fire and then they were talking about his dead wife and then we went back to the rape. then we're back to a missing mom and a missing sister and then a gruesome end and I was like WTF.
yes there were really hot the sex scene but trust me the other stuff to talk to about in this book negated all those sex scenes.
my last comment, I typically read mm romance and if that's what you read normally when you get this book just be prepared the first sex scene in the book is not a mm..

Logan's Need

If you are going to purchase one Audiobook this year.... Make it this one....
Or, well.... Any book written by Sloane Kennedy and narrated by Michael Pauley
(but really, get this book and you will not be disappointed with your purchase)
The book + The Narration = Perfection
5 Stars for the book and 5++ More for the Audio
While I really liked this book when I initially read it *I gave the book 5 stars* This book in Audio is just So. Much. Better. Logan and Dom have the most well written love story. We get drama and angst and action, love and heartbreak. This book is so Damn good, and the Author could not have picked a better narration to bring these Men's story to life. Michael Pauley's voice just gives So much more intensity and Steamy heat to this already Hot book, Really Outstanding Narration.
Logan is recovering from some major Past Drama involving his sister and his former Partner at his bar. He meets Dom and his wife, by chance, or so Logan thinks. But as we find out throughout this story, Dom and Logan meeting was really Fate and Silvie (Dom's wife) bringing them together, somehow knowing that they will need each other in the end. They just need to overcome everything that stands in their way, even each other... There is so much more to this book, But I really do think it needs to be Read or Listened to first hand without any outside influence like reviews to get the full effect.. And, Get The Audiobook!!!

loved it

cant wait for the next book to be on audio too. micheal pauley does an excellent job

Logan and Dom

Logan and Dom are two of my favorite of Sloane's men. This audible version brought them to life in a way reading the book didn't. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially those who love Sloane's stories and her men. And of course Michael Paulette did a fabulous job.