A must read/listen.

This was my first Stephanie Hudson book and it will not be my last ! The story line was hard to get at first though once it gets going, it’s amazing the twist and turns keep you wanting more. Stephanie has worked magic the way she has given just a little glimpses at a time into the ‘Amelia’s world’. The build up of energy between the MC’s, each chapter you are waiting for the explosion!
Looking forward to book two!!
Plus hoping Amelia will get her story told, please please.

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Gripping

Love these books, I’ve read them, now I’m listening to them, fabulous, I definitely recommend giving them a go!

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Loved reading this book

Great story but the narrator was really bad. Spoilt it for me. Her male voice wasn’t grr enough and some of her words spoken in the English accent were horribly distracting.

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Great book, rubbish narration

As with all of Stephanie Hudson’s books I have read, they are very enjoyable.
HOWEVER I am not entirely sure what accent Alyssa Avery was trying to hit but someone needs to tell her that missing some vowels and consonants out of the odd word does not constitute a British accent (if that was the aim).
It made listening to the audio book hard work, as some of the words she crucified were painful to take.
If she had just stuck to her natural American accent it would have been a really good listen.

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Fabulous

Just love Stephanie Hudson and this is an amazing start to a new series I love that in intertwines with her other series

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Stephanie did it again

I'm an audible addict and have been waiting not so patiently for this book and it was well worth the wait lucky I have the paperback of the next in the series as I could not wait to see what happens next. Love the characters Stephanie you rock.

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Great book

Love these stories but strange accented narrative that I found distracting. Stephanie’s imagination is out there and I love being taken into her fantasy world.

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Entertaining

It took a little while to get into the book but once in I couldn’t put it down. I have bought the other books in the series to follow the story on. It reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, but more dark. The accent of the narrator made me smile sometimes but it did not detract from the story. Well written.

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Narrator - another disappointing audible set back

All of the Afterlife books and their spin offs are really good- Stephanie Hudson writes so well giving a really believable character to all the people in the books. However in this audio book the narrator has an awesome voice, but chose to read in a really bad English/Irish/American accent for the main character, missing most of the 't's to words in a very strange way. When she slips to her own accent you feel relieved and it is really good.
The problem with series of books in audible each narrator takes their own vision of a character and if you have listened to the others in the same series it can be quite confusing and VERY VERY disappointing. In this one Lucius who is a bad ass vampire King has been turned into a German Count Dracula :0( who says things with a z- "zat is not good". In both Afterlife and Transfusion over 20 books he has never had an accent and is appalled by being typecast as a 'dracula' vampire.

This also happened in the Transfusion series when our lovely little imp Pip was depicted as an old lady at one point and totally out of character. The imp is called squeak for a reason!!!!!

Because these books are are all entwined with each other it really needs a bit on continuity, and when one narrator gets it so right you can listen many times over- Rebecca Rainsford narrated the Afterlife saga 12 books with many different characters that are all believable- it is a shame she could not be asked to read the others or at least narrators to come could be given notes on the characters so as not to make the stories hard to listen to and characters morphing into clichés etc.
It is such a shame this narrator did not listen to any of the previous books to at least get an idea of the characters - now Lucius in this series sounds nothing like the sexy sultry vampire he is and has forced me to stop listening.
With deepest regret.

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Great story

Great storyline and very well read, not usually my go to book but thoroughly enjoyed it

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