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Along for the Ride by Lauren Biel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Love is a foreign language for all of us, but we’re learning.
Leana
While running away from a heavy-handed boyfriend, I end up in the car with two callous hitmen. Gentry and Karson take me on a road trip I didn’t know I needed, and I become the breath of fresh air between two brothers who suffocate beneath waves of animosity.
In battles fought and scars earned, we forge a triad of destruction and leave countless bodies in our wake. We just need to ensure we aren’t among them at the end of each day. Easier said than done when our biggest threats may be each other.
Can I escape my past and help these “Kursed” brothers reconcile? Will I succumb to the darkness or cast light on men who walk in shadows? We have 2,700 miles to figure it out.
This dark hitchhiker romance has extreme content. Full list of content warnings on Laurenbiel . com. Please listen responsibly!
Along for the Ride
Twisted but good!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😊😁😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration
The heroine: Leana – she was nearly eighteen and running away from a broken home. Her stepfather had been doing unspeakable things to her and her mother didn’t believe her. She ran from one end of the country to the other and ended up homeless near a bus station in New York. Six years later, she is addicted to pills and a sex worker. She gets beat from her pimp, Mickey, but thinks the drugs are worth it, because they ease all her pains. Mickey tells her he loves her, and will marry her, but he beats her regularly. Though when Mickey threatens to kill her, Leana runs again.
The Heroes: Gentry & Karson – Brothers and partners (“murder obsessed contract killers”). One of them is a psychopath and one is a sociopath.
Gentry – he was married to a woman he liked at least a little, but when he found her cheating on him with his brother, he was furious and killed his wife. He eventually went to prison for robbery.
Karson – he says he only screwed around with G’s wife because he wanted to kill her while doing it. He had found out that she was cheating on his brother. When they got caught for robbery, he gave up his brother to save himself, he couldn’t do time in a box without going crazy.
The story: Gentry was in prison with Lex from Hitched, he got along well with Lexington because they had the same type of homicidal tendencies. When he got out, he was estranged from his bother. Though he is forced to take a job with his brother because Karson got in trouble while G was in jail and was going to be killed if they didn’t make up for his messy blunder. They end up driving to California to kill some actor who wouldn’t pay his debts. But their car breaks down not long after they are on the road, and they end up hitchhiking and are picked up by Leana.
I grabbed this book because I listened to Hitched, the first book in the series and really enjoyed it. Though, I have to say I am not too fond of books where the main characters are addicts or prostitutes. Also, the heroine is raped and I thought that was unnecessary. Overall, I enjoyed the storyline about the brothers, and I liked the fact that this was a road trip story even though they were murdering people all the way from New York to Los Angeles. It was quite twisted but pretty good. I expected no less after listening to the first book.
This audiobook is told in multiple points of view via duet narration and is narrated by Roxelana Waters, Christian Black and Gregory Salinas. The guys are great, they have the perfect voices for Gentry and Karson. Both have deep, soft voices that sound tough enough to be the two hitmen. I am not too fond of Roxelana’s voice though, I didn’t recognize her name, she may narrate under another name. I have definitely heard her before, and her voice bothers me. It has a whiny quality that I really dislike. Though I did love that this was done in duet narration.
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