3.5 stars

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Nana Malone is a new to me author. Where has she been all of my life? I cannot wait to dig into the rest of her catalog.

Big Ben is the exciting first part of a trilogy. Narrated by Shane East and Mari. As usual Shane East was fantastic and elevated an already fantastic story. Mari was amazing as well. For me, she was the best part. Her portrayal of Olivia who has so many different sides to her was on point. Strong, sexy, boring, exciting, confident, insecure, ambitious, content. All of these are parts to this layered character Nana Moaone wrote that Mari absolutely brought to life. This is a great example of why I like audiobooks. When it is performed by a true voice actor and not just someone reading a book to you, it adds so much.

As far as the story goes, i'm loving it so far. The way Ben and Olivia met my accident when they were both hiding from something is both exciting and hilarious. So far there are so many good guys and bad guys and guys you can't tell if they are good are bad yet.
I absolutely recommend this book and suggest that it is 100% worth a credit or buying outright. ( )

couple of days after finishing this book and I can't remember anything
And I read the middle (25-75%) twice! because I kept zoning out of this experience.
Totally my fault, but I love my romantic suspense fast paced, thrilling and spicy and this one didn't deliver it for me unfortunately:(( ( )

I needed this for a long drive and missed East's narration (something that had me paying attention but if I zoned out for a few looking at directions or scenery, that's ok too)

Mari's narration is gorgeous, but I don't know about those accents, exactly. They aren't varied, and probably not great, and I don't know that she distinguishes her voices enough. But her voice is gorgeous.

All in all though, it was a fun listen, really OTT and just road-trip-vacation-perfect.

I will continue the rest of the story on the way home, probably (and frankly, if I don't, that's fine too)

Delving into the world of the London Lords is going to leave you breathless because Ben's first book is so fast-paced with so much happening. My head is still spinning because from the first page to the last, one thing or the other just comes at you. Ben and Livy's dynamic is adorable. She brings out a side of Ben he never anticipated. And for better or worse he seems to be all in. Because protecting Olivia is the most important thing now that he's acknowledged how he feels about her. But it looks like that might be a lot harder than he would think.

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