Reverse age

Reese has wanted his dads best friend Cornell for years. After an accident that claims his dad's life he has a chance to take Cornell in. Thus begins their story. It is sweet and hot and a little surprising. I love the reverse age gap - and that Cornell is not ashamed to be an older sub. My heart breaks for him at some points, and Reese is perfect for him.

Kenneth narration was perfect. Great tempo, and differentiation with voices.

Highly recommend this audio

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Love, loss and love again

I love this wonderful story about two people coming together and finding happiness in a very unconventional way. In the midst of loss these beautiful characters find what they need in each other. We should all be so lucky to find love like that.
Narrator Kenneth Obi does a fabulous job as always. I loved listening to him tell me this story.

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Heartbreaking/Heartwarming

What an amazing story.
I've never read anything quite like it.
It captured my heart on the 1st chapter, broke it on the 2nd one, and throughout the story it was slowly mended back together.
I found myself crying, gasping, smiling, grinning, laughing, and completely enthralled.
Beautifully narrated and highly recommended!

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Good book

I loved the story and all of the characters. The narrators performance was spot on.

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🔥🔥🔥

Great listen! Kenneth Obi did a great job as always:) I loved the set up of the characters and the story

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Wow! So good!

One of the sweetest most touching love stories I've read! It just warmed my heart.

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Lazy plot, characters, side character, world, etc.

The story starts off with the death of a flasher/lover to both of the main characters. This feels like it's just thrown away and was more intended to serve as a plot device to get the two characters in the same room.

It felt kinda lazy and lacked any interesting or emotional writing that would make sense for this kind of opening plot. They occasionally reference to this loss however their behaviors are extremely unbelievable and even over simplified in a way that feels lazy. I just really didn't like the poor writing to really sell this sort of plot line to be used as a background.

The characters are a bit lazy as well. You really only get enough information to show the main conflict. That main conflict being the old vs young dynamic and the struggle sometimes felt about it. However this was not really expanded on too much other then brief moments of tension at the start to give the illusion that this main conflict even exists. Overall, i just didn't think the writing was good enough for this either as it lacked any depth to really sell the conflict.

The Erotic moments were also a bit bland. You don't really get anything resembling a true Erotic moment that could he enjoyed until you're about towards the end. Definetly wasn't the main focus for this book but I struggled to kinda figure out what was. This really didn't have anything going for it. The erotica wasn't even very impressive and didn't at all give that dom/sub dynamic as much as I'd like.

This book uses this vague description of a scene existing in the background but doesn't do world building to even explain what that scene even was. I can sorta get an idea, but the lack of expansion really made it confusing what universe this book is supposed to be in.

There's these side characters that like pop in and out so sporadically too in a way that feels unnatural. There's even this cringe scene where the main character as a plan to invite friends over to help the other character feel safe/relax. Those characters arrive and in like 2 minutes they disappear. What even was the point?

Ugh.

Yeah this was just overall not good.

Not what I expected

And here I did it again, got sucked in by five star reviews. And I didn't read the blurb. I read the book while listening to Kenneth Obi narrating.
Ah well, this is what I liked: the age gap, the younger dom and older sub, even the car accident and the grieving process - I really do like to read about the heartbreak of an unexpected death. I liked that they eventually talked. Nothing is worse than drama coming from non-communication. I liked Ford, Rhys's mentor Dom and Raf, Brendan's little. What I didn't like was the portrayal of the only two female characters in the book. Their behaviour was downright mean, so not what I was comfortable with. Then there was the isolation during the time Cornell is recovering at Rhys's house. Cornell lost his best and only friend Jonas in a car accident, in which he got severely injured as well, and when he is in doubt about Rhys's intentions his only chance to talk to someone is a friend and mentor of Rhys's. Despite living the "dream" of not working and being at home myself I did not get the "I want to spend all my time with you so I quit my job" vibe after both MCs spent two weeks together, so of course they both lost parent(s) and inherited money. Cudos to Rhys though to start his own business, even though he wasn't doing much more than stare at spread sheets and being happy about a few bookings lined up for the coming weeks. Then there was the D/s relationship that morphed in the last third of the book into a Daddy/boy relationship. I enjoy reading about both but somehow watching the development in such a short time of about a month was not feeling natural. I would have liked to know more about Rhys's and Cornell's relationship before Rhys acted on his crush and inviting him to his place for recovery. Being not blood related making them godfather and godson, even though Rhys had outgrown any dependence, added a moral taboo that wasn't necessary. It just added to the hotchpotch that this book already was. Questionable consent as well as patient/physiotherapist interaction added to a cringe worthy feeling. I am no prude and I have seen segments of the book like a massage with happy ending in porn, but even my husband, who had the chance of listening involuntarily to bits and pieces, asked if they did anything else than have sex. He was sleeping while Cornell was having his inner monologues about doubting Rhys and himself. All in all a good try but not really well executed. The writing was good and the narrator only once used the wrong name.
Kenneth Obi did the best he could with the story. His narrating was good. I was surprised that the younger Rhys had this deep voice and older Cornell's voice was soft.

Awkward romance

I honestly found this one creepy and far fetched/ reaching. I finished the audio book since I paid for it but save your money.

Beautiful!

This audiobook deals with grief and age gap. The storyline is so beautiful and the characters help each other through the grief they are feeling. It is a bit of a reverse age gap, if you want to call it that, but it definitely lends itself to this perspective. Narration is on point and poignantly beautiful.