Fresh Catch

This is a combined review of Audio & the bookI'm thinking it's more like 2.5 for the poor audio, but the story was holding at a respectable 3.5 when one of the MCs, Owen, did the stupid talk at around 90%, luckily it was brief, but the author seems to side with him. No. Just no. It'll have to be 3.00.This book started out promising and then it just ... fizzled out? I dunno. The first half spent too much in the MCs heads, with a “is he gay?”, “will they, won't they” inner monologues. We also get a lot of promises of what Owen is like as a lover, a big bear who will pull you apart and lovingly put you back together, and I guess he is but he's also wee bit of a “woe is me” navel gazer. Colin, on the other hand is pretty much as billed, a Mark Zuckerberg type, though I prefer to think a blond Jack Dorsey, super smart, always too much going on in his head, which spills out at inappropriate times, and I kind of loved him. He accidentally lands in Owen's backyard and is pretty much the sole reason to read this book. There are some sexy times, an idyllic coastal Maine town, and a few colorful locals. There are also some unwelcome comments from the MCs about women and vaginas in general, nothing too horrible though, but still annoying. As for the audio, I absolutely hated it. I actually stopped listening halfway through in order to salvage the story. [a:Noah Michael Levine 7056713 Noah Michael Levine https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] makes Owen sound like some stodgy retiree reading something he disapproves of, and while [a:Chris Chappell 13037199 Chris Chappell https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] fares better with Cole, it feels more like an audition read. There is minimal to zero emotion infused in any of this and needless to say it makes the sex scenes sound like a laundry list. Big loss.