Invitation to the Blues
Small Change Series, Book 2
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Invitation to the Blues
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Narrated by:
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Greg Boudreaux
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By:
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Roan Parrish
About this listen
Eight months ago Jude Lucen fled his partner, his career, and a hospital in Boston after a suicide attempt. Now back in Philadelphia, he feels like a complete failure. Piano has always been his passion and his only escape. Without it, he has nothing. Well, nothing except a pathetic crush on the most gorgeous man he's ever seen.
Faron Locklear came to Philly looking for a fresh start and has thrown himself into tattooing at Small Change. He's only met Jude a few times, but something about the red-haired man with the haunted eyes calls to him. Faron is blown away by Jude's talent. What he isn't expecting is the electricity he feels the first time they kiss - and the way Jude's needs in bed speak directly to his own deepest desires.
Jude and Faron fall fast and hard, but Jude has spent a lifetime learning that he can't be what the people he loves need. So when the opportunity arises to renew his career in Boston, he thinks he has to choose: music, or Faron? Only by taking a huge risk - and finally believing he's worthy of love just as he is - can he have the chance for both.
Contains mature themes.
©2018 Roan Parrish (P)2019 TantorWhat listeners say about Invitation to the Blues
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- Anonymous User
- 07-05-2024
Pain and Triumph
Such realistic portrayals of depression, mental illness and gaslighting. Such tenderness and heartbreak. Beautiful words. I love it had a HEA but realistic still. Couldn’t stop listening.
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- Sue.55
- 19-08-2023
Sue.55
What a thoroughly emotional experience! The way the subject of depression and anxiety were handled made me feel the sorrow and helplessness of loved ones who have to live through this and the weight the person who suffers feels for being the cause of this. Surrounding this is a beautiful story of love and acceptance.
The story was amazing as was the narration. Definitely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 11-08-2023
A moving rhapsody in blue!
Wracked with anxiety and depression, Jude Lucen’s career as a classical pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra is in tatters after a suicide attempt and being white-anted by his toxic ex-partner. Faron Locklear was keen to work as a tattooist at Small Change and as an artist, but he’s even more keen to get to know Jude, his boss’s striking brother-in-law. This compelling romance sits squarely in hurt-comfort territory. Told through Jude’s eyes, Roan Parrish thoroughly explores the weight of depression on his negative thoughts and inability to function. While there’s a happy ending and all wishes come true, the title is apt: a blue melancholy really permeates the story and it doesn’t just magically disappear half way through. Anyone who gets impatient with Jude probably hasn’t experienced the endless bleakness of a serious bout of major depression. Roan also touches on Faron’s falling out with his brother in the military and explores some racial themes, but this is primarily Jude’s journey. When we were introduced to Jude in the first book, Small Change, I had an impression that he was more together than he is in this book and I had to adjust to his portrayed character as well as the way audio narrator Greg Boudreaux voiced him. Once I did, I really appreciated this angsty romance!
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