One of those books where the narration killed it

I own all of Aurora’s books. Her stories keep you sucked in and you just can’t help but enjoy it. Unfortunately the narration killed this one dead for me just as it did with Ashlyn’s story, it was such a huge take away. I bought the book and read it on kindle but was so very excited when it came on audible just to be disappointed. Please go back to Roger Wayne etc. they did your stories justice and brought things to life in a way that makes you listen to it over and over again. So very disappointing

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Love those Mayson Men!

The Boom! That's what hits Sage as soon as he stops to help Kim change her tire. I have to say, he had me as soon as he was walking her through the steps of this task, I love that he immediately wanted to help her learn an important lesson. The chemistry is instant lands them for a night filled with passion. Just as soon as the two think life can't get better, things change. Kim's twin sister comes into the picture and through misunderstandings, fear and hurt feelings, the two are separated. Mayson men have a way about them that is hard to forget and get over, and Sage is no exception. With his warmth and understanding, Kim is continually drawn to him, but will their relationship withstand her secrets? Aurora Rose Reynolds is able to portray this family with incredible love, tenderness, and a fierce protectiveness that sucks you in and makes you root for the couple. I love how she is able to intertwine the characters we have gotten to know so well into each story, giving us a firm foundation of family. It really endears the story even more.

The narration of this book is not as good as previous, but did give a performance that was enjoyable. In my opinion, Zachary Michael does have a good voice, but not as commanding as the alpha Mayson men need. Thurlow Holmes has the voice of a new adult woman, though at times, I felt like her portrayal was forced, not comfortable. With the strength of the storyline though, the narration was acceptable and the book enjoyable.

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Does love really conquer all?

I was really looking forward to this book, but must admit that I was a little bit let down. Sage rescues a damsel in distress on the side of the road. He feels an instant 'pull' to Kimberly and spends his day helping her change her flat tire, then get it repaired, then repairing a bookcase for her. During the short time together that day, both parties feel the 'boom' and end up spending the night together. However, after promising to take Kim out the next night, she gets radio silence from Sage. While she is pondering this strange change in Sage, her twin sister shows up, grabs her stuff and basically tells Kim to go to he!!. See, Kim has kidney disease and only discovered that she was adopted when she was diagnosed. She learned that her birth mother gave her up for adoption but raised her twin sister. When Kim reached out to her sister, her twin believed that she did so only because she needed something. Now it appears that her sister has run off. Later on that day, Kim runs into Sage and he is just hateful and says nasty things to her. Kim realizes that her twin did something and tries to explain but Sage doesn't give her the chance. Fast forward a couple of months and Sage acknowledges that he's been an @$$ but Kim won't talk to him. Then comes the kicker...Kim's sister is murdered. Here comes Sage to the rescue. Will Kim truly forgive Sage? Will Sage help to find the sister's killer? Is Kim safe? Alls well that ends well and we have an HEA.

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Bounty Hunter and Mistaken Identity

Sage is the adopted son of Nico and Sofie from Until Nico. He works as a bounty hunter and likes the freedom it provides. He has no desire to meet his birth mother and like all Mason’s (and he is t one by birth) in the noon, meeting and knowing he’s met the one.
Kimberly, new to town, has a flat tire and meets Sage... she is his boon, but tii hi bugs quickly fall apart from jumping to conclusions, anger, failing to listen and fear of being hurt
A sweet romantic story done by great narrators
Onto the next book!

Female lead annoying

The narrators did a fine job to me. The female lead was so annoying. She would hide things or lie about things and it never made sense why she would, saying she was protecting. Protecting herself from what... I have no idea. Also, her little temper tantrums about nothing were also annoying. I did a lot of fast-forwarding through this book.

Enjoy Ms. Reynolds’ romances.

Love almost all Ms. Reynolds’ books. Male narration was ok, but could have been bolder. Female was also ok, but a couple of times was OTT screechy. But I would still give them a 4 star overall rating, because I’ve listened to this series several times. A great
spicy listen with an HEA escape.

I hate the moms

I swear the mothers of all the kids need to be killed off. they act like a wedding is the most important thing in the world and seriously act like it's their wedding. his mom calls her mom to so she can show her venues doesn't even ask the bride what she wants for her own wedding. like sweet jesus.

So So Amazing

This is a amazing rendition of this story. The voices used give it another demotion. I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone

Loved the story, but not the narration.

I waited to purchase Until Sage after it was released for awhile because for some reason the audio format cannot be purchased at a lower price since I already purchased the eBook. All of the other books I’ve purchased in this series have the Add Narration for $7.99 because I’d already purchased the eBook. I had hoped it would be added later so that I didn’t have to pay almost $17.00 for it but it never happened so I gave in and bought it for the higher price. I am a huge ARR fan. Her stories never disappoint, I have all of her books in the Until series on audio and this is the first time I’ve had anything negative to share about one. In this case, it was the narration. I didn’t enjoy the way the chapters were told by both narrators. It made it sound fake, scripted, robotic almost. I also caught a couple of times where the male narrator stumbled while reading and started a sentence over at a certain word that wasn’t caught during editing. Of course I read Until Sage first, plus he’s been in earlier books like Until Jax, which is why I felt like Sage would have a harder, confident voice. I don’t get this feeling when I listen to Until Ashlyn, which Zachary Michael also narrated. Perhaps because while I listened to Thurlow Holmes saying something as Kim, then Zachary Michael answering as Sage it didn’t sound like two characters having a conversation. There were pauses before each voice answering the other and Thurlow had no background noise when she spoke, but when it switches to Zachary’s voice I immediately hear static or white noise in the background as he speaks. I don’t recall any other audiobook in this series having this back and forth narration instead of by chapter. I hope the future audiobooks in this series will be read by only one narrator per chapter.