Changing the Rules

Richter, Book 1

By: Catherine Bybee

Narrated by: Lori Prince, Joe Arden

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the steamy first novel in her new adrenaline-fueled Richter series.

As an employee of MacBain Securities and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way...except one involving Cooper Lockman.

Cooper and Claire used to work together before his feelings for her sent him packing to Europe for six long years. But now he’s back and determined to ignore the still-smoldering heat that lingers between them.

Their current mission: go undercover together at a California high school to root out the mastermind behind a prostitution ring targeting young girls. The closer they get to the truth and the closer they get to each other, however, the deadlier their task becomes. As Claire and Cooper risk their lives to bring down their target, will their hearts be the final casualties?

©2021 Catherine Kimmer (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Ugh

Ok, first off, the narration was NOT great. Lori Prince does HORRIBLE male voices and sounds vaguely robotic at times. Secondly, the story was not what I expect from Catherine Bybee. I've read most of her other books, and I still felt like I'd missed something from her previous works that would enable me to catch some nuance I was missing in this one. I've read all the books that the ancillary characters are from, so it was purposely written this way. I don't recommend, and I won't be reading the rest of the series.

Romantic Crime Story

Security Company members work with police to capture a human trafficking ring. The characterization is excellent and the story line very exciting. The romance added the extra stars.

Great story based on, unfortunately real life events, although fictionalized

This book kept my attention from the beginning to the very end. I liked all of the characters, and I liked the budding romance. This was a very different type of book that I usually read by this author. I really enjoyed the mystery and the fast pace of this book. Hopefully, it will reach enough people and people can keep educating, our parents, teachers and youth on the risks of human trafficking.

Great as always

Enjoying the continuing story.
Love C Bybee book
Highly recommend ALL her books. Read and enjoy

Horrible female narrator

Very surprised Audible has such a bad female narrator for one of Catherine Bybee’s books. She makes most of the characters sound like they have severe speech impediments. Very distracting.

Great story

Love it! keeps you interested! Good reading! would recommend reading it! A part two would be great!

another good one

enjoyed every minute of this the so suspenseful wonderful characters Catherines Bobby has done it once again love listening to her novels

Good story, poor female narrator

This review is primarily about the female narrator, Lori Prince. While I thought she did pretty well with the first two books in the series, in this book her accents were ALL over the place. They were so inconsistent that it was incredibly distracting. At times the main character sounded very British, then somewhat American with some British pronunciation, then more German than British, then British with a hint of German… like I said, all over the place! Lori Prince is a very pleasant narrator — as long as she doesn’t have to do a foreign accent for more than an occasional line or two.

A delightful read

A friend told me about Catherine Bybee a few months ago, and I immediately fell in love. This is the second Bybee series that I have tried and have found all of the books wonderful. This one is no different. I really appreciate the fresh take on the “friends to lovers” trope. The one issue I had was the lack of a British accent for Gwen, and Jax’s German accent was odd.

Book 1 - Changing the Rules

An action packed story of undercover agents infiltrating high schools in order to try to break a human trafficking ring targeting local high school students. This story shines the light on the very real dangers facing our children! Educating not only the parents, but also the students is key to keeping as many safe as possible! Excellent read as well as audiobook! ❤