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My Review:Title: Forsaken Trail
Author: Devney Perry
Series: Runaway #4
Published by: Indie
Release Date: January 22, 2021
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Maxine Mitchell, Aiden Snow
Length: 6 hours and 14 minutes
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Potential Triggers: View Spoiler »
Source: Audible
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2023 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2023 COYER Chapter 1, Lenoreo's 2023 January SIAM
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My rating:
Blurb:Aria Saint-James has planned the perfect getaway: sweatpants, takeout and two weeks alone with her sister and nephew. Nowhere on that list is wearing a low-cut dress and uncomfortable heels to attend a wedding where she knows neither the bride nor the groom. Toss in her nemesis, Brody Carmichael, and her road trip to Arizona is officially a bust.
But at least there is champagne.
She blames the bubbly for falling into bed with Brody that night. Enemy or no, the billionaire is irresistible in a tux. But after their one-night tryst, Aria has no choice but to cut her vacation short, returning home to escape his devilish smile, vowing never to see Brody again.
Except Aria gets a surprise a few weeks later—she’s pregnant. When he learns that she’s carrying his child, Brody offers Aria the chance of a lifetime. The catch? She has to live under his roof until the baby is born.
Either they’ll kill each other in nine months. Or discover love buried beneath their hate.
4 stars — This was a solid romance, if a bit short.
I think it didn’t hurt that I really enjoyed both narrators. This is my second time listening to Mr. Snow, and I just really like his voice. Both narrators were fantastic with pacing, voices and emotions, they made it so easy to listen.
Honestly, I feel like I have the same things to say about both characters — I genuinely liked both of them, even as they were flawed in their own ways. They each had issues to work through, and those issues often came between them as a couple, so they also had to work out how to give one another what the other needed. Aria needed control, which Brody was not good at giving up because he’d never really had to before. And Brody needed love and caring, which Aria wasn’t used to giving to anyone but Clara and August. She also just didn’t see how Brody’s upbringing had affected him.
Even though I’m not normally an enemies to lovers fan, this is the type I’m more interested in — where their personalities just clash a little, mostly because they’re both very passionate forthright people. It can lead to great sexual chemistry, and it definitely did in this case. It can sometimes lead to frustration if they don’t talk things out, but there was a good balance in this story.
I do wish there had been a bit…more to their conversations and resolutions. All the elements were there, but sometimes it just went a bit easier than I was expecting… then again, I kind of liked that. So maybe I just don’t know what I want. 😛
Either way, it was nice to have a couple that I rooted for and wanted them to find their way.
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