Shame about the accents and stilted reading style

The story started out promising but became convoluted and unnecessary. Unfortunately, I became too distracted by Cassandra Miles’ accent changes. The “British” accent hovered between RP and generic cockney with the odd Northern word thrown in. All forgivable if it hadn’t been for the curious split second random pauses between words which created the impression that she was reading from a teleprompter and pausing at the end of each line rather than pausing where a speaking person pauses naturally, creating a robotic effect. I recommend reading the book rather than listening to it. I didn’t feel any real spark between the characters. It started out with such potential. Smutty language from the start was a bit jarring but the final steamy scene (very well written) thankfully did not contain smutty words and was what I had hoped the whole book could have been like. Explicit description rather than easy smut language to create a mood. Too harsh a criticism perhaps— I began thinking it was going to be awesome and then the -in my opinion —bad accents essentially killed it. Ending was not so much a twist as totally unnecessary and unfounded in all that came before.

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