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My Review:Title: Sweet Temptation
Author: Wendy Higgins
Series: Sweet #4
Published by: HarperAudio
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Christian Coulson
Length: 11 hours and 58 minutes
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Paranormal
Source: Library
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Audiobook Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:This swoonworthy, romantic companion novel to Wendy Higgins's New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series is told from irresistible bad-boy Kaidan's point of view. Readers will love getting inside Kaidan's head, especially fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, the Selection series by Kiera Cass, and Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
When bad-boy drummer Kaidan Rowe encounters good girl Anna Whitt, the girl chosen to vanquish the demons from earth, he can't stop thinking about her. The Nephilim son of the Duke of Lust, Kaidan tries to help Anna embrace a life of sin, but she gradually helps him see that he's meant to do more with his life. Their relationship is as tortured as it is passionate, for Nephilim are forbidden to fall in love. But as hard as they may try to obey, Kai can't seem to stay away from Anna, nor Anna from Kai.
Full of chemistry and high-stakes drama, this companion book is darker, hotter, and completely satisfying.
4 stars — This book both satisfied me greatly, and missed out on a few scenes I was curious about. If you’re not into alternative POV books, then you can skip this one. I LOVE them, especially when the originals are only in one POV, because this way you get insight into another character’s head. I was both surprised and not by what it was like in Kaidan’s head. He was more selfish than I was expecting, but that fit him and made him more real somehow. The prologue alone, of him as a child, was heartbreaking and made me shudder. It was seriously hard to take the way his father treated him as though he was a commodity.
I definitely got some answers that I was seeking, and an expansion of things I had guessed based on the original books. I was surprised by the way his lust was explained, how it felt to him…that was eye opening. The epilogue totally made me cry, as I knew it would. Cry and laugh though.
The only reason this book isn’t rated higher is just that it has a bit of a disjointed feel, b/c it jumps from scene to scene instead of flowing. It makes it harder to get into it when you don’t get it all. I mean, I get why, but it’s not quite as deep.
Christian Coulson as the narrator was pretty good. I was surprised by the accent for Kaidan — it felt…lower class? I expected Kai to have a more upper crust English accent. Part of that is that I was used to the way Ms. Mallon narrated him, and I actually probably prefer her take. I was also bummed that this narrator didn’t pronounce names the same way as Ms. Mallon — I would have appreciated consistency, because it was jarring to hear a name you didn’t recognize only to realize he’d placed emphasis on different syllables, or whatnot (Zania, Pharzuph, Belial were the most egregious). And I wasn’t really a fan of his Anna voice, which was a bummer. Otherwise, though, his emotions and pacing were great, and his voices were consistent.
So yeah, totally glad I read this one, it was fun to get this big extra.
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