Carnal Urges

Queens and Monsters, Book 2

By: J.T. Geissinger

Narrated by: Michelle Sparks, Troy Duran, Brooke Daniels

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Dark, sexy mafia romance where the fast-paced tension of John Wick meets the high stakes love of Romeo and Juliet.

Carnal (adjective):

1) Relating to the pleasures of the body

2) Given to sensual indulgence

3) The man who kidnapped me

The devil has blue eyes, an Irish accent, and a hatred for me that runs deep.

He blames me for starting a war. Consorting with his enemies. Getting his men killed. Though I’m innocent on all charges, he wants his pound of flesh. With an eye on revenge, he makes me his captive.

But as we'll both soon discover, there are more powerful urges than that for revenge.

When the devil meets his match but she’s his sworn enemy, that’s when the real war begins.

©2023 J.T. Geissinger (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

I have never laughed so hard…

I LOST IT for this book. Everything about it. Was Sloane absolutely insanely intense? Yes. Was the banter borderline excessive? Yes. Did I still love it? Yes.

The narration of this book was SO solid for me. I truly love when the narrator gets the accent RIGHT. I was convinced that Troy Duran the narrator was Irish. I also love dual audiobooks. I feel as though this lets the narrator shine more than when they must do alternate gender voices. Most are fantastic at it, but this way feels more authentic as a listener. It allows me to truly be immersed in the book.

As far as the storyline, this was fantastic. I really enjoyed book #1 but Sloane and Declan truly got so much more on page time and character development. Both of their stories were also truly heartbreaking and Sloane’s I never saw coming! The spice was next level and I love that we had some true kinks at play in this book.

My favorite thing about the book? THE NONSTOP LAUGHTER. This book was SO FUNNY I couldn’t even believe it. 5/5 humor.

My only tiny issue: with this book was I started to get a little lost in the twist ending but I eventually caught up. Maybe I’m just slower to process the complex twists and turns but I was more just like “wait, what are the logistics here? Is this possible or more fantasy?” Additionally just having to look up a lot of Irish slang. Some footnotes would have been helpful. Otherwise no notes!

Hot

Amazing narration and story!! Loved the second even more than the first. Excited for number 3!

Loved the narration

I’ve already read the book a year ago. I finally got to listen to the audiobook and it enhanced the book tremendously! I loved the book. I love the audiobook even more. Sloan is hilarious and Declan’s reactions are great.

cute

I love a good banter back-and-forth.It made me laugh.It was good. it was better than the first to me

Soo, good. Narrators were amazing.

I am absolutely loving this series. Each book delivers on character, and story develpment. As well as great spicey scenes layered all throughout. I highly rec.you listen to the book. The narrators are amazing.

GLAMOROUS

Taking a bad boy and making his life glamorous. Bad ass boy meets his match.

I am more than half way through….

And I’m a bit embarrassed to say that it took my brain waaaay too long to realize the connection to J.T’s Beautifully Cruel series!! I F’n love it! I am so happy to hear Declan’s story. I really loved his character in the Beautifully Cruel series and wished we could’ve had more from that character. Bravo!!

Ok so I had to edit because I just finished this one and THAT EPILOGUE!! OMG!! Made so happy!! 😁

Great series!

I love the romance, the witty banter and the mafia/spy elements. I hope Kiran gets a book. Please JT🙏🙏🙏🙏 You won’t be disappointed with these books and narration is perfection!🌹

great story, ok narration

I loved Sloane in Ruthless Creatures and I loved her in this book as well. She's funny and sexy and a strong heroine. Declan doesn't know what to do with her. He's great, even though he's a criminal. Not just a criminal, but a mega-criminal.
There were a lot of far-fetched occurances here but I let that stuff go because it's fiction.
Sloane's narrator was excellent. I typically love Troy Duran but his Irish accent is awful. Most of the time it sounded as if he dropped it altogether. I really wish they would have gone with an Irish narrator, it at least someone who can do the accent well. And I thought he did a great job as Kane in Ruthless Creatures but when he read Kane in this book, the Russian was non-existent. Pretty disappointed with his narration in this one, and I said the last one was one of my favorites.

Literally the best

If you are on the fence, I promise you that you need to get off of it and download this book rn. Like literally as someone who consumes way too much spicy romance books, when I say I’m obsessed I mean OBSESSED. Bless the writer and may her pillow always be cold on one side.