Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Safe in His Arms 
SERIES: Safe #1
AUTHOR: Renae Kaye
NARRATOR: Randy Fuller
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: June 22, 2015
LENGTH: 7 hours, 6 minutes
BLURB:
In the late-night quiet of the caravan park shower room, Lon Taylor washes away the filth of the Western Australian mines. He’s not looking for anyone, but when Casey offers, Lon doesn’t turn him down.
Welcoming the young man in his big, hairy arms, Lon provides a safety to Casey that he has never known, and Casey wants to stay forever. Still reeling from the breakup of his family years ago, Lon’s not sure he’s ready for the responsibility of the comfort and security Casey craves.
Perhaps Lon can risk opening his heart again and hoping for a brighter future. Casey has some pretty big skeletons in his past to deal with. Lon wonders what Casey will do when he finds out how badly Lon failed at protecting the ones he loved eight years ago.
REVIEW:
I’ve read this book before, and it’s one of my comfort reads. It’s a cuddly read – even though it deals with some awful topics. It’s a book that I keep coming back to – so I figured I needed to try the audio and see if I’d enjoy it as much. And for the most part, I did.
Dead tired, dirty and more than a little scruffy after four weeks in the mines in Western Australia, Lon is in the caravan park shower room cleaning up before passing out. Only he catches a young man eying him. With no patience for games, he orders the guy to make a choice – a choice that will set events in motion neither of them predicted.
After the encounter in the shower rooms, Casey follows Lon back to his caravan. For the first time in years he feels safe. Safe from nightmares, from memories and the past. And after that night he never wants to leave Lon’s arms again.
In a way, Casey and Lon are polar opposites, in looks, age, manners and the way they look at the world. But in other ways they are the same. Both having truly painful pasts that still affect them years later. Ghosts they haven’t been able to excise. Together though, they make sense. They fit, they both bloom. Casey dealing with his past, and Lon finally opening up and starting to live and feel again. At a glance, they might seem like an odd fit, but they fit like puzzle pieces and make a while.
One thing was glaringly obvious while listening, there was too much on page sex for me. When reading, I tend to skim/skip these parts – please don’t hang me, but long and plenty sex scenes bore me. A few, meaningful scenes is totally fine – and most likely enhances the story – but pages and pages and too much focus on it is not my thing.
So first things first; Randy Fuller narrated the whole book in an US accent. This being an all Aussie book – set in Australia and all Aussie characters – it wasn’t what I’d prefer. There has got to be a good Aussie narrator out there, because narrating an audiobook in the correct accent is really important to get the feel of the setting and the characters. Truly it will make or break the book – and in this case it was the latter. Other than that, Fuller did a mostly okay narration of the book. There was some distinction between the characters; the voices didn’t always fit the character he was portraying, but that could be my own preconceived notion of what they sounded like.
This has been a day for Kaye audio’s for me, and for the most part it’s been a good one.
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