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Afterlife

By: Stephanie Hudson
Narrated by: Rebecca Rainsford
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Summary

Afterlife...just some gothic nightclub where gossip is fuelled by the presence of a rich and unearthly, handsome family or afterlife...the strange place where time seems to stand still and guests feel the presence of something more powerful held within the confines of the VIP.

Keira is new to this small, cold town and is running from a past that seems to feast on her darkest memories. She finds living with her sister away from English soil to be just the ticket to the new life she is trying desperately to find. So when the offer of a job at the infamous gothic nightclub Afterlife comes along she thinks that lady luck has finally found her. That is until its seductively dark and forbidding owner Dominic Draven sets eyes on her.

All at once she is captivated and plunged into a world she never knew existed, but the deeper her obsession with Draven becomes, the harder it is to decide...should she stay and continue to work within the shadows of the supernatural or should she run from a madness she thinks may consume her?

Warning: This audiobook not only has sexual content but is amazingly addictive, with its dark mystery, haunting horror, seductive twists and one sexy dark lord that has the listener drooling every time the name Draven is heard! This audiobook has been written by an UK author with a mad sense of humour. Which means the following story contains a mixture of Northern English slang, dialect, regional colloquialisms and other quirky spellings that have been intentionally included to make the story and dialogue more realistic for modern day characters.

©2012 Stephanie Hudson (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

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Oh good grief !

more than 20 hours of description of how overwhelmed/tearful/shy ( basically pathetic) the "beautiful but she doesn't know it heroine is !! The "Hero" is the usual strong dark silent type who goes all soppy with lust. It a mills and boon style formula story but dragged out. A nipples being described as "points of desire" sort of thing !!
Formula stuff that is so bad it's sometimes funny. The American accent the reader employs is also some sort of revenge for dick van dykes English accent in Mary poppins I think. It was painful to listen to. And I don't think I have ever thought or said "oh good grief" whilst listening to a book so often !!

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Just don't do it! Save your credit.

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

People who like weak, pathetic, foolish female leads, shallow character development, and predictable plot. You'll also need to be able to tolerate a narrator whose voice for the male and American parts is less than stellar (her main character was good though)

What could Stephanie Hudson have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Rewrite it? I would have preferred a more in depth attempt at world building and a stronger less foolish lead character. Kira is more like a dithery, child than a grown woman who has a traumatic past. She is beautiful but doesn't know it, she's jealous of dravens beautiful female friends and they are jealous of her having his blind love. Her relationship with draven seems shallow and it is irritating, they meet up a few times in dreams and he's overbearing and she is pathetically submissive and they are obsessed with each other but nothing much has happened at this point. Then she starts work at the club he owns and they brush past each other a few times blah blah blah plus the constant references to how he makes her core feel made me want to bang my head against a wall or some other mild self harm behaviour. The lack of world building was especially disappointing and considering the overall length of the book, it doesn't seem like much happened at all really. Obviously this is a fantasy novel because Kira got a green card to work stateside without a job offer before she got there like it was easy.....

Would you listen to another book narrated by Rebecca Rainsford?

Possibly, although I'd prefer her not to try the male parts especially if they are supposed to be American

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Afterlife?

Maybe some of the dream meetings but I'm sure that it would have been better if it had been shorter overall. I'd attack it with a ferocious delete button to find ways of chopping out and changing lots of paragraphs to be more compact

Any additional comments?

I'm not a literary snob Ill read most things but this was painful, the angel/demon thing and the mortal/immortal love thing are both right up my street and the story has potential to be good but needs more depth especially as it felt like an endurance race to get to the need of it,

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interesting plot

liked the story but way too many sex scenes.. i personally don't like listening to sex scene descriptions. but others might like it.

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I wish I had a time machine

Afterlife can be described in very few words, incredibly cheesy, terrible jokes. And the term bad boy grin is repeated far too often. I am still trying to work out what that exactly means. The story is horrifically long. I downloaded it thinking it would be a great book for my daily walks but I found myself fast forwarding parts but I still managed to catch the term bad boy grin far to many times. I am going to be honest and say I have listened to a couple of the other books in this series hoping they would get better as I enjoyed the mythological element but they were just as tedious painfully slow paced and the main heroine is hideously unfunny the scouser jokes not even the slightest bit amusing and everyone is described as gothic. Gothic barbie gothic biker child goth punk goth etc and the sex scenes are hardly erotic or detailed. I definitely think this series could be rewritten better change the heroine change the gothic background and their stereotypes. Edit lots of the unnecessary details and a new narrator.

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!!!!!CAUTION!!!!! addictive!

I started this book while I was waiting for an appointment, I was called up and regretted booking the appointment! Miss Hudson should be very proud of herself for battling dyslexia and coming out with a fantastic first novel! Having mild dyslexia myself I understand the struggles. The only down side is having to wait for the next installment! (already present ordered on audible!)

Thank you for such an epic ride with this story. Looking forward to the next!! <3

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Interminally long, drawn out and passionless

The story is stretched so long to support overblown prose the same concepts are repeated ad infenitum to infuriating effect. There is only a juvenile infatuation between Kiera and Draven, which takes far too long to be brought into the open as does the revelations of Kiera's backstory. Practically the whole plot of the novel is delivered in the final 6 chapters! A waste of twenty-something hours of my life!!

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All In All A Great Read :)

Loved loved this book :)
It's been a while since I've read/listened to a book & been even longer since I've found one that actually caught my attention!!
Very detailed, descriptive book that you can really plunge your imagination into.
The Narrator could have been a little more enthusiastic at times. For example when doing long stretched "Nooooo!!" & screams etc but in all she did really well & didn't annoy me like some can.
Will definitely be buying the full set.
Anyone thinking of buying this has no reason to hesitate. It's a winner in my eyes 👍🏽👌🏽

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Absolutely dreadful

Replace the name Draven with Drivel and you have this book in a nutshell. Very poor mash up of 50 shades of Grey and the Twilight series. The narration was beyond excruciating. Do not waste your money on this travesty of a book.

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Mills and boon meets twilight

At least you get value for money because it’s 25 hours long. the story is ok, but the sex scenes are overblown bodice rippers.

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Accent issues...

Loved the story, but hated the bad American accent.... If you can get last this, it's a great book....

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