Audio Book of the Month Winners August 2020
Welcome to the August 2020 Audio Book of the Month Winners!
The top two will go through to the Audio of the Year Poll!
Gideon (Finding Home #3) by Lily Morton (Author) & Joel Leslie (Narrator)
Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: Gideon
SERIES: Finding Home #3
AUTHOR: Lily Morton
NARRATOR: Joel Leslie
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 9 hours and 43 minutes
RELEASE DATE: June 22, 2020
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Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun.
A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards – he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behavior is threatening to destroy his career. Then, he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones.
Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms 90 percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now, Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.
However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?
From the best-selling author of the Mixed Messages series comes a story about a man who needs to realize that being true to yourself is really just a form of finding home. This is the third book in the Finding Home series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone.
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Nothing Special VII: EX Meridian (Nothing Special #7) by A.E. Via (Author) & Aiden Snow (Narrator)
Reviewed by Anna Lynn
TITLE: Nothing Special VII: EX Meridian
SERIES: Nothing Special #7
AUTHOR: A. E. Via
NARRATOR: Aiden Snow
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
RELEASE DATE: July 7, 2020
LENGTH: 8 hours and 33 minutes
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Take a man and strip him of his ability to feel compassion, empathy, remorse, or any of the emotions that make him human, but leave the ones that ignite rage and aggression and you have the perfect killing machine – now imagine two of them.
Code names Ex and Meridian are synonymous for “guaranteed death” to international terrorists. Two broken men from the same crooked streets, recruited into an unsanctioned government program that few know about. Trained to operate most efficiently – lethally – together.
When Ex returns from an op in Bolivia to learn his little brother has been accidentally killed in a feud between drug gangs, he’s stateside before he can consider the rules he’ll be breaking, and of course Meridian is right beside him. There’s mayhem on the streets of Atlanta and the police are losing control. If Godfrey and his elite team of detectives can’t get the job done, then they’d be happy to lighten their caseloads for them. And neither Ex nor Meridian cares about doing it quietly.