Wounded

By: Jasinda Wilder

Narrated by: Greg Sule Wilson, Alexandria Stevens

War has taken everything from me. My family. My home. My innocence. In a country blasted by war and wracked by economic hardship, a young orphan girl like me has very few options when it comes to survival...Thus, I do what I must to live, to eat, and I try very hard to not consider the cost to my soul. My heart is empty, and my existence brutal. The one impossibility in my life is love. And then I meet HIM.

War is hell. It takes a chunk out of a man's very soul to do the kinds of things war demands of you. You live with fear, you live with guilt, and you live with nightmares. If you haven't been through it, there's no understanding it. War leaves no room for love, no room for tenderness or softness. You gotta be hard, closed off, and ready to fight every moment of every day. Lose focus for a split second, and you're dead. Now the only thing that can save me is HER.

Due to sexual content and language, this book is recommended for adults only. Wounded is a full-length standalone novel, approximately 70,000 words.

©2013 Jasinda Wilder (P)2013 Jasinda Wilder

Amazing!

This audible is the best narrated book.I have heard so far. Loved the depth and use of different voices throughout. loved the book and cried when it was over!!! Amazing writing, I am looking forward to reading more from Jasinda Wilder.

Deep Story for Young Love

Any additional comments?

Well what can I say, I love Jasinda Wilder, and to have a chance listen to yet another audiobook of hers I was excited. I didn’t read the synopsis on this one , I jumped head first and I was floored! WOW… this book is more darker than I have read in awhile, and at first it took me a minute to figure out what type of book this was, but when I figured it out, I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. It was a good book don’t get me wrong, but I did have alot of questions.

This is the first audio book that I have listened to where the male and female characters shared a chapter, When the female was speaking we had a female and when the male was speaking the male was in. It was different than what i was used to due to that fact, but it blended well with two narrators. The narrators themselves really got in the role of Hunter and Rania

The story takes place in Iraq, Rania a young Arabic girl struggling to survive in the war of Iraq. She turns into a prostitute, and witnesses death all around her. She has no family, no mother, no father, and her brother was now dead. At this point she meets Hunter, the American solider that she saved from interchange of American soldiers and Iraq soldiers.

Hunter is an American Solider, serving in Iraq. With no family, and his best friend Derrick dead, himself injured now, he turns to Rania. Rania does not speak English and Hunter only speaks English. Hunter watches while she prostitutes- and has that sick feeling that he doesn’t like. Rania has to do this- she does this to survive, to eat. However my question is why would Hunter want to engage with a prostitute? Diseases? . But I than have to turn that side of my brain off and realize that Wounded is about sacrifice, healing and surviving and of course love!

At this point , the story moved fairly quickly, and the characters fall in love and get married quickly.

The book couldn’t be read in one sitting for me- well listened :).. It was pretty deep at some points that I had to walk away.

Over all, I enjoyed the story- was it realistic? Yes

Would I recommend to others? Only if you are into the dark stories

Was the narration unique”? Yes- with dual POV made the book more interesting.

Worst narration ever! Loved the story

I first read this book in 2013 and loved it. Jasinda Wilder is hit or miss with me tho. This book was on sale for $1.99 so I bought it so I could listen to it this time. I hate to bash narrators, really, especially since I got the book so cheap. But.....I just couldn't stand it. Over dramatized. Each narrator read their own male/female parts, rather than differing POV. It was strange hearing it this way complete with "heavy breathing" and "heavy sighs" and "grunts". And with the over dramatization at the end, it really made the writing sound extra cheeeeeezy. I wanted to cringe and vomit, and I am no prude. Sorry Greg and Alexandria. I'm sure you two narrate better than I could, but the direction the producers took with this book was way off.

Not Your Usual Romance

This book is grouped in the erotic section and although there are sex scenes the overall focus of the book doesn't follow the usual theme of erotica. The story was dark following an Iraqi young woman who turns to prostitution to keep herself from starving after her family was killed and a US Marine who is lonely after catching his high school sweetheart cheating on him before he deploys to Iraq. The author gave a vivid view of life in Iraq for a young girl who lost her family in the first war, dessert storm and 10 years later "weapons of mass destruction" war and it is not pretty. The narration was "so so". Alexandria Stevens was better than Greg Wilson. I found his narration to be obnoxious at times and wished he could bring it down a notch. As a reader of romance novels, I am amazed how quickly the characters fall in love and get married to the point I roll my eyes. However, this book was realistic and I could completely see how the characters were united.

So-So read for me

Would you try another book from Jasinda Wilder and/or Greg Sule Wilson and Alexandria Stevens ?

Jasinda Wilder - I love to pieces. I read some of her books in one day that I can't put down, but this one... not so much. I'm actually writing this review during the last 20 minutes of the audiobook.

Would you be willing to try another book from Jasinda Wilder? Why or why not?

Absolutely, Jasinda is an excellent writer and I have read most of her books. I'm debating just buying Derek's story as an ebook rather than the audiobook, the blasphemy was too much for me the most. I realize it's reality but it was distracting in this book.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Greg Sule Wilson and Alexandria Stevens ?

I really like Gabriel Vaughan, Piper Goodeve, Grace Grant, and Sebastian York.

Was Wounded worth the listening time?

I'm not sure, I wish I would have read it to see if it was the narrators or if it was the story.