Absolutely marvellous story and narration

I absolutely loved Crash's story. Brilliantly interwoven with the other PsyCop books it gives a whole new perspective on events. Crash is a great character so complex and quite a challenging life.
I can't praise Gomez Pugh's narration high enough. The voice he uses for Red is dreamy, I could listen to it for ages.

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Jordan and Gomez-a winning combination as always!

What did you like most about Skin After Skin?

I loved how we got to see all the familiar characters we know and love, as well as important moments in the PsyCop series, seen from a new perspective.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked that we got to see more about Crash: his past, his family, his views and feelings on life and his personal journey of love, loss and growth as an individual. He's always been one of my favourite supporting characters and I'm glad that in this story, he gets his time to step out from the background and shine.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

There are too many to pick just one. Some I loved because they made me laugh out loud (in public) and others for the way they tugged at my heartstrings.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Most definitely. In fact, I lost a much needed night of sleep just so I could hear the end of the story. I couldn't wait until the next morning ;-)!

Any additional comments?

From the first chapter, I was able to easily fall back into the PsyCop world with Jordan's descriptive worldbuilding and unique humour. Also, Gomez's narration brings the story to life in a way that pulls you into the drama and emotion just as good as, if not further than, your imagination can take you. Every character has a distinct voice so that you never get confused about who's talking and even though every chapter wasn't action packed, I always wanted to know what happened next.
I regularly listen to the PsyCop stories back to back and I'm so glad I get to add this one to the line-up.
I'm eagerly and impatiently looking forward to more!

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another point of view

This is a story from Crash's POV. The end half overlaps The psycop series this far but The first half is Crash before it all and his relationships and career ambitions. It's a nice full character arc and Works as a standalone story.

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I can’t decide...

I do like Crash as a character and I find his banter funny, but as far as what this story adds to the overall arch of the series, I can’t decide. I’ve been so invested in Jacob and Vic, to listen to virtually a whole book about how Crash and Jacob felt about each other, even if it was going back in time felt jarring. It felt like Jacob was being unfaithful and it made me think his love for Vic in the other books wasn’t as real as I’d believed it to be. He was desperate for Crash to move in with him, but only
Moved in with Vic because of the incubus, and a fair few times it felt like Jacob was still pining for Crash. I put off reading/listening to this book for ages and I still can’t decide whether I did the right thing by listening to it - Gomez Pugh was absolutely amazing though, he is one of my favourite narrators

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Unexpectedly not a hit

I generally eat up every single audio book Jordan Castillo Price releases, especially when partnered with Gomez Pugh, but god, this was one hell of a struggle.

I'm not a fan of Crash as a character, I can take or leave him, but I thought that maybe I could get some insights and get my fix of Vic and Jacob in this story somewhere, but what I found didn't satisfy me at all.

The first 35k - that's nearly 4 hrs of audio- could have been cut. I had ZERO interest in the comings and goings at the salon Crash worked at. It all seemed completely irrelevant and pointless.

And where was the plot?

What we have here are some of the events we have covered in the Psycop books, yet from Crash's perspective. It just did not work for me and I actually got really bored, even though Gomez Pugh's narration was solid, the content became interminable at times.

This 'Red' character that Crash was so nuts about was like a cardboard cut out with no personality. I was not convinced at all.

Sadly, I just didn't feel any feels with this book.

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Enjoyable Story

A well written story with and interesting  concept.  The characters are likeable and the narration is very good.

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skip

stick to the main series. this overlong interlude drags terribly and adds very little. Avoid.

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