Audio Book of the Month Winners April 2019
Welcome to the April 2019 Audio Book of the Month Winners!
The top two will go through to the Audio of the Year Poll!
FIRST PLACE:
Elements of Retrofit (Thomas Elkin #1) by N.R. Walker (Author) Nick J. Russo (Narrator)
Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Elements of Retrofit
SERIES: Thomas Elkin #1
AUTHOR: N.R. Walker
NARRATOR: Nick J. Russo
PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books
RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2019
LENGTH: 3 hours, 10 minutes
BLURB:
Generation versus generation, traditional versus contemporary, these men are about to learn a lesson in architecture and love. Can they prove that the old and new can be the perfect design?
A successful New York architect, Thomas Elkin almost has it all. Coming out as gay and ending his marriage before his fortieth birthday, he needed to start living his life. Now, four years later, with his relationship with his son back on track, and after a few short-lived romances, this esteemed traditional draftsman thinks he knows everything about architecture, about life.
Cooper Jones, twenty-two years old, is about to take the architect world by storm. Talented, professional, driven and completely infuriating, Cooper is the definition of Generation Y.
Starting an internship working with Thomas, Cooper is about to knock Tom’s world off its axis. Tom can teach Cooper about the architecture industry, but Cooper is about to teach Tom what it means to live.
SECOND PLACE:
Falling Down by Eli Easton (Author) & Michael Stellman (Narrator)
Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Falling Down
AUTHOR: Eli Easton
NARRATOR: Michael Stellman
PUBLISHER: Pinkerton Road
RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2019
LENGTH: 7 hours, 33 minutes
BLURB:
Josh finds himself homeless at 18, but he has a plan. He’ll head north on the bus to New England and spend October there for his mother’s sake. She always talked about going to see the fall leaves someday. And when the leaves are done and the harsh winter comes, Josh plans to find a place to curl up and let go. It will be a relief to finally stop fighting.
Mark spent his life trying to live up to the tough swagger of his older brothers until he pushed himself so far against his nature that he cracked. Now a former Marine, he rents a little cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire where he can lick his wounds and figure out what to do with the rest of his life. One thing was clear: Mark was nobody’s hero.
Fate intervenes when Josh sets up camp under a covered bridge near Mark’s cabin. Mark recognizes the dead look in the young stranger’s eyes, and he feels compelled to do something about it. When Mark offers Josh a job, he never expects that he’ll be the one to fall.
The snow is coming soon. Can Mark convince Josh that the two of them can build a life together before the flurries begin?
