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Hug It Out
- Narrated by: Philip Alces, Joel Leslie
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Riordan Darcy has spent the last 14 years building a name for himself as a notorious assassin. He travels the world taking the lives of some of the worst humanity has to offer, leaving his signature on every victim.
Riordan becomes unhappy and withdrawn from the world after a job goes horribly wrong, and he makes the decision to get out of the life he was forced into so long ago. When his meddling older sister gives him a birthday gift that's impossible to refuse, his plans to leave his life of crime take a backseat when he's forced to protect the life of a veritable stranger.
When professional hugger and TLC provider Teddy Harris is offered a month-long companionship contract, he's hard pressed to turn it down. Cuddler by day and a video game reviewer by night, Teddy's need to make people feel loved and cared for is what drives him. When he meets Riordan Darcy, professional challenge and personal temptation collide, making it nearly impossible for him to endure a whole month with the gorgeous, enigmatic man without falling head over heels in love.
When a mole is discovered within Riordan's organization, relationships are compromised, and people's lives are in danger. Time isn't on their side, and they discover answers can't always be found by hugging it out when someone is hell-bent on eliminating each and every one of them.
Can Riordan and Teddy survive long enough to fall in love, or will they die trying?
Contains mature themes.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-10-2023
Not a bad story.
I liked the main characters. it was great to catch up with Snow and Christopher Manus,those 2 are my faves.
I read in some of the reviews about critising the narrators and that there are no voice varieties.
I have to admit for a while I was on that band wagon, not as bitchy as that person was but I was getting Snow's voice when it was different books.
But what I do realise is that there likely are not that many great narrators out there, and it is a job. I like a consistent paycheck, and so do they.
I'm just grateful for them doing a great job reading these books, and I bet those vision impaired or full blind people do too.
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- Pencil
- 15-07-2023
Details!!!!
I love Teddy and I liked many of the characters which will lead to more stories, however I’m annoyed by the fact that as soon as Teddy was terribly sick, it was so annoying that Emma wasn’t suspected !!! Duh … poison queen !!! So obvious and it made the assassin squad seem stupid !
It is also annoying that the same narrators were used, although Joel’s voice suits both characters, it’s a disservice to the characters because they become blurred ! Christopher & Riordan’s voice needed to be deeper and different also.
I enjoyed the book and will read the entire series however I will go to ‘reading’ !! I don’t understand why authors use the same narrators again during a series, it literally doesn’t let characters have their own voice !!!
Again, I’ll read until the end, but sad that other narrator’s can’t give me a better/different character experience!!
If you’re reading this, know it’s a good book, and the author has created a great world, she just lacks sustenance and getting details right in this instalment.
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 26-06-2021
Ok but didn’t fulfil its potential!
Bloodthirsty hitman, Riordan Darcy, decapitates his victims and sends the heads to clients as proof of job completion - needless to say, he’s not a people person. When one of his jobs kills innocent targets, his well-meaning family hire Teddy Harris, a professional hugger, because he seems down. Little does Teddy know he’s putting himself in the firing line. This was ok, but I didn’t love it. With such a fun premise I was expecting an Alice Winters-style story, so I was constantly wrong-footed by the more sombre tone and I found it hard to adjust - that’s on me. Some of the plot choices were flimsy or inconsistent, eg. big, scary Riordan agrees to go along with hiring Teddy because he won’t have to deal with his parents (who are very sweet), yet he later agrees to them attending his birthday party. Despite the content, the writing and romance didn’t grab me, especially the instalove (Teddy is only hired for a month). In the audiobook, Teddy is aptly narrated by Joel Leslie and he gets the tone and character right. I felt that Philip Alces was the wrong narrator for Riordan. Although Philip is a very competent narrator, he used a careful, cultured, professorial tone - it’s a beautiful voice but it just didn’t sit well with the character.
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