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Dedicated: A Rhythm of Love Novel
- Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
“Our greatest hit is a love song I wrote for my bandmate. And he has no idea.”
Messy-haired, soulful-eyed, off-kilter lyricist Les Graves holds tight to the hedonist’s credo of consumption in every avenue of life. He has trouble staying still, trouble staying sober, trouble turning down a good time - but put a pen in his hand, and he’ll set a page on fire.
Music was Evan Porter’s ticket out of the backwater mud puddle he was born in, the passion keeping him warm as he busked on street corners. Every chord, every song, every ounce of sweat has been devoted to making Porter & Graves a success. He’s the level-head, the quiet maestro, the seatbelt that keeps Les from flying too far out of control. And he’s getting pretty tired of playing savior.
Their onstage chemistry is electric, offstage it's… complicated.
After Porter & Graves’s third album bombs, the pressure is on for the duo to redeem themselves with their fourth. While sequestered in an East Tennessee cabin to compose, things take a turn for the worse when an event from their past comes back to haunt them in an embarrassingly public fashion and forces them into an unusual position that tests a partnership already hanging by its bloody roots.
Can Evan and Les find harmony or will they - and their music career - go down in flames?
Dedicated, the first standalone in the Rhythm of Love series, is a steamy, bisexual friends-to-lovers romance featuring semi-kinda forced proximity, a fake relationship, angst, snark, a cock-blocking greenhouse, really poor decisions involving social media, and a HEA guarantee.
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- Mari Cardenas
- 18-07-19
Entertaining!
Greg Boudreaux is one of my favorite narrators and one of the reasons why is because he can pretty much capture the essence of any character and make them different in every book I've listened to by him even if the voices are similar. I loved his characterizations of Evan and Les, even if I didn't like everything about this book.
The interviews and little tidbits at the start of some of the chapters were great. They were fun and told a lot about Evan and Les's personalities.
I liked Evan and Les. I found Les's interest and longtime crush on Evan, a whole lot more believable than Evan's. Maybe because Les was a playboy whereas Evan was demisexual? I don't know, it was just difficult to believe Evan's attraction in some instances. *shrugs* Still, their relationship got better as the book advanced, so there's that.
I'm not particularly fond of graphic or semi-graphic sex scenes with other characters that aren't the MCs, so yeah, you can say that didn't work for me. Neither did the flashbacks of the first time Les and Evan were together, maybe if it hadn't been cut into a million pieces until we got all the scene, but then again maybe not, I've never been fond of going back and forth between present and past. Plus, the book was overly long, with lots of inner thoughts and it dragged a bit.
So, yeah, while the book was entertaining to listen to, it took me a long time to warm up to the story, Les and Evan were good together and it was lovely (and hot) to see their relationship progress, even if my favorite part of the book was Greg's narration.
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- Lisa Hughes
- 19-07-19
My first Neve Wilder, but definitely not my last!
All the way through listeneing to this book, I caught myself thinking "blow mw, this is great". Greg Boudreaux is one of my favourite narrators. His style is so flowing and natural that I forget I'm listening to a book and just get totally immersed, as long as the story is engaging enough. And OMG is this one engaging. The story is glorious. I love friend to lover as a trope and this one is so well crafted. Les' whole life has been built around his unrequited feelings, but in such a believable way. The supporting cast are great and I'm looking forward to getting to their stories. I wish I could hear the music, the lyrics are gorgeous. A totally satisfying listen that has gone in to my 'relisten' pile.
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- Trio
- 18-07-19
Clever Story, Boudreaux is Fabulous
After hearing so many wonderful things about Neve Wilder’s stories I couldn’t wait to listen to this one narrated by the awesome Greg Boudreaux. The first book in her Rhythm of Love series, Dedicated definitely lives up to the hype.
Ms. Wilder gets deep into these characters and I enjoyed seeing them interact through the drama that comes their way. The sparks between Les and Evan are obvious from the outset, and continued to grow as they face their blooming physical attraction. Without spoiling it for y’all, we get a fabulous happy ending!
I’m not usually a fan of flashbacks, but the way Wilder intersperses them with the present day and the alternating points-of-view is very effective. I can't think of a better way to explain the history in an established relationship.
Greg Boudreaux is always spectacular and gives a wonderful performance in Dedicated. His smokey, southern accent never fails to give me chills and he makes the most of it here.
I received an audiobook copy of Dedicated (Rhythm of Love #1) in exchange for my review
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- Gwen
- 18-07-19
Friends to lovers...
Music brought them together. Band partners who worked together to write music at a cabin. Porter was the responsible one, having to keep up with Les, the happy go lucky and so very slutty one. One night of debauchery will change everything for them. Les has carried a torch forever hoping his friend would look at him different. It’s a fun book to listen to. The narrator has a great voice. Very smooth.
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- Pixiebell
- 07-07-19
Highly Recommended
This is the first book by Neve Wilder’s I have read/listened to and I was very impressed.
I really enjoy the rock star trope and found this to be probably, one of the most down to earth of all I have listened to.
Evan and Les couldn’t be more opposite in their characters but compliment each other artistically and balance each other out in their friendship. Les is all chaos and sexual energy whilst Evan is the calming influence, but is restrained and finds it difficult to connect with people.
After their 3rd album is trashed by the critics, they are under pressure to produce a hit album. They return to a secluded cabin to work on new material and try to mend their damaged friendship.
I really enjoyed the interviews with Evan and Les prior to each chapter, they were insightful and funny.
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- Cassi
- 20-07-19
Captivating
This book gripped me right from the start. Neve is a new to me author but I adore Greb Boudreaux’s work so I grabbed it and I wasn’t disappointed at all. No only was the narration amazing but the story was great too!! I was so happy to see them get their HEA but I also didn’t want it to be over!
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- Jackie Thorogood
- 15-07-19
What an amazing listen
I've read this book so when saw it on Audible I wanted it, this is so down to earth and believable, Rockbands are one of my favourites to read/listen to, Greg Boudreaux was outstanding with his take on the story also with all the characters, the blub tells you about the story, but what stood out for me was the spoken version it came alive, well worth listening to it, definitely.
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- Allison
- 17-07-19
Really Awesome
This book was fantastic.
I really enjoy Neve’s books.
Great writing, great characters, great story, great narration.
Definitly a must listen audiobook by a must read author.
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- Emma Burbidge
- 17-07-19
Porter & Graves - love and music
I read the novel a while ago when it was released and love the format Neve Wilder came up with interspersing the chapters and alternating MC POVs with band interviews with various music magazines/shows, etc. Greg Boudreaux does an excellent job of giving the guys their voices. He is one of my favourite narrator and I was not disappointed with this narration of a good book.
Evan Porter and Les Graves are interesting characters and their music tells the tale of their feelings for each other. It was quite interesting to see them start their relationship as a pretend coupling for press purposes, but as their true feelings start to show through to each other, they face some interesting truths and challenges. Highly recommended Contemporary MM romance.
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- SC
- 13-07-19
Rocker Romance
If you like major angst with your rocker romance look no further than Dedicated, Neve Wilder really knows how to tug at the heart strings.
This has everything, friends/enemies to lovers, fake romance and hot rock stars.
The first half of the book has flashbacks to an event 6 month previous, I really liked this style as it really helps you understand where both the MCs are at emotionally whilst its happening rather that it just being talked about. I also like the dual POV throughout.
Les and Evan danced around each other a lot and this is definitely a slow burn but so worth it. Where Evan is pretty closed off and keeps things very close to his chest, Les is pretty open although he has kept his feelings for Evan hidden. I really felt for Les in the latter stages of the story, yes he was pretty flawed but also pretty loveable.
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