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really brilliant story line of cops and medical staff, really brilliant characters even the villains and really great narration 👍👍

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The OTT melodramatic narration spoils this action/romance

There's great parts to this story but there's also lot of drawn out and rather tedious angst. I don't understand why the producers switched narrators to Abbey Craden who is SO over the top with her melodramatic narration which doesn't suit the action in the story. For some reason AC seems to believe f/f fiction should sound sexy even when it isn't actually appropriate to the action in the novel and her overly dramatic delivery makes the parts of this audiobook painful to listen to. (Tip: Increasing the speed of the narration helps reduce AC's OTT delivery somewhat and got me to the end of the story,) Why the producers didn't stick with Sarah Grant, who did a really good job narrating the first book, lord knows but switching to AC doesn't do this novel any favours at all.

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Loved this, Abby Craden is BRILLIANT

I couldn't disagree more with the reviewer who preferred the reader of the first I instalment of this series. IMO The reader of the first book took some getting used to, and the book is a long way down my 'listen again' list for that reason.
HOWEVER, Abby Craden is brilliant here. I think this is one of her best performances, and I've heard a few... Yes, she reads loads of lesfic, has made a specialism of it, but that is because she's so good, so invested and puts so much emotional energy into her performances.

Because the performance is so good, it made me love the story and characters more, made me totally invested from start to finish. I cried, I laughed, I was moved for long periods. And it takes something special to make me actually cry whilst listening.

Story wise, this is the second story in this series, so it would make little sense without having read the first one... I wish I'd actually read the first one myself, rather than heard the audio book. But, this one follows on from the first, with the same characters. Their new relationship is tested and personal growth occurs... Hopefully that's not too spoilery ... Their relationship is written so beautifully and with an amazing intensity... Enhanced hugely by Abby's performance .... She really is a gift to lesfic audio books. There are some other great readers out there, but whilst there are still some shockers, I'm not going to complain about Abby getting all the lesfic gigs.
Good for her, and well done KD for writing such an emotionally honest and raw story.
Ten stars!
Ps, if you loved the reader of the first book... then, you might not like this one, normally I hate a change of reader mid series, but in this case, I think its a vast improvement.

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One of the great stories beautifully crafted enhanced by Abby Craden’s performance.

Kelli and Nora take it to the next level. What I enjoy about these books, these characters is that we know they’re both struggling with how to make a new relationship work while family does family stuff. (Yes I meant that to be cryptic buy the books cause I’m not going to give away anything) you will never be disappointed in a KD Williamson story. Can’t wait fir the next Cops and Docs to be on audio.

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