#Fate

GearShark Series, Book 5

By: Cambria Hebert

Narrated by: Nick Mathews

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

What’s meant to be will always find a way.

Perfection isn’t an illusion.
I met it, held it in my hands.
But then it slipped right through.

Perfection isn’t an illusion.
It’s elusive, cleverly evasive, and, in many ways, a horrible tease.

I’m not a man to be toyed with.
Quiet, thoughtful, and even sometimes careful....
But never someone to taunt.
Even the most controlled men have a breaking point.
I just met mine.

Why mess with perfection?
You don’t.
Unless perfection messes with you.

This is book 6 in the GearShark series and is not a standalone.

©2019 Cambria Hebert (P)2023 Cambria Hebert

LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE

Cambria...I LOVE YOUR BOOKS....THAT IS ALL!!!
I absolutely loved this book. Trent and Drew have such a wonderful love that is so darn cute, funny, loving, and romantic. I knew I would love this book as I've read or listened to over 15 of Cambria Herbert's books. They are so addictive! The story lines are so good and keep you interested...wanting to not stop listening or stop reading. I have never been much of a reader, however, I finish one series and am ready to jump into another one of her series! The audio was wonderfully done as well.

#TREWLove Forever!

I laughed, I cried, I swooned. I mean this series has everything! Cambria will always be one of my favorite authors of all times. Everything she writes is amazing, but Trent and Drew are my favorite. if you haven't read #Nerd and #Gearshark series then WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!? ❤

You’ve been waiting for #Trew!

We have all been waiting for this to make it to audio and it was so worth the wait! The story was one of my favorites! This story is so much. Trent and Drew are goals for sure. We’ve seen their struggles in Junkie and Rev and it is no less in Fate. The narration is actually fantastic for the tone of the book. It is a deep book so you don’t want tons of inflection and peppiness. So I think he was spot on. I am ecstatic that the story is complete in audio and I can listen all the way through.

Trew4Ever

It was so lovely to get back into Trent and Drew’s world. I enjoyed the book thoroughly! It was sweet agony and broke my heart in a million pieces, only to make it whole again and make me love Trew even more. If it’s even possible.

If you loved #Junkie and #Rev, I highly recommend picking up this book.

The narrator was new to me and he did brilliantly. He captured and distinctly performed each characters in this dual POV audiobook, perfectly.

Great story. Great narration.

Gah. So much emotion packed into one book.

It makes me a bit enraged to know that these things can still happen in the twenty-first century but that's the perks of living America. You are still legally allowed to be a bigot under the guise of freedom of speech and religion. Ugh.

Trent and Drew have weathered so many trials already, and this story covers their most epic one yet. It's packed with tears and laughs, and the resolution has a wonderful message.

If you enjoyed the earlier books in this series, this will be another treat. The narrator is different, but Nick Matthews does a wonderful job of giving life to all the characters.

#TrewLoveForever

It's one of the BEST MM ROMANCE I've read ever!!
And this coming from a person who rarely reads anything other than MF romances.
Cambria gifted me this audio-book and I immediately started it. So Deeply engrossed in the jovial love shared by Drew & Trent that I failed to realize it was book 3 in the series and I had read it out of order. But IDC it was so good from the word get go.
I mean I've only ever held Someday, Someday in the highest regard in MM romance, but this book now shares the throne.
For me MM should be all about sentiments and overwhelming love and devotion and yearning that borders on heartache. Otherwise it becomes cheesy and I'm happy to announce that This book remarkably conquers all boxes.
It has my heart and soul in entirety. There was nobody who could come close to Max in loving Silas with every pore of his body but Max has a competition now!!
Trent is sublime and supreme lover. His loyalty and devotion is unparalleled and complete.
His shattering grief bore down like a landslide that swept everything away...including me.
I mean I can go on and on but there's nothing to explain except go read this book
OR better yet, listen to it cause Nick Matthews does an outstanding job of narrating it.
And I've already downloaded books 1 & 2 - #Junkie & #Rev
I'm not ready to let go of them yet.
5 stars for Family Born Out of Love

3.5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐.5🎧

Drew and Trent are some of my favorite characters Cambria has ever written their love story starts in #Junkie and continued in #Rev only to conclude in #Fate. We truely see it all with these two from the blossoming beginnings to the fight to stay together to the biggest fight of them all. The fight to survive.

I didn't know I could like someone else narrating these two but I dare say I loved Nick Mathews and how he didn't try to do anything fancy it just worked.

Overall I loved the story, I loved how Trent comes into himself more in this book then ever before.
The only real negative I have is how they treated the hospital staff, I get it protective and all that but it just didn't jive well with me.

I loved that we get the true family and how they protected Trent and Drew. That made my heart so happy.

Clutch Your Heart Tear Jerker Romance!

*4.5 Stars On My Instagram Account*

"Fate decides who comes into your life. Your heart decides who stays."

#Fate by my new favorite romance author Cambria Hebert will definitely stay in my heart. I went through a gambit of emotions listening to the sexy smooth baritone of narrator Nick Mathews bringing out the undying love Drew and Trent feel for one another despite so many telling them it's wrong, "Sometimes it hurts to love you so much."

Drew is in a coma from a racing car accident. When his parents show up at the hospital with a will he wrote years ago demanding Trent be removed from his room it begins a turn of events that are often hard to get through but fate has a way of bringing love and family together.

"Sometimes things have to go really dark for you to see the stars and sometimes when the stars come out they align."

I was surprised to learn this is book 6 in the 7 book #Gearshark series. It felt like a standalone. I wasn't lost at all but I have since downloaded on Kindle Unlimited book 1, #Junkie, the start of Drew and Trent's love story. They fought their feelings. It is a journey of best friends secretly in love with each other who realize denying such love is a waste of a lifetime.

Be prepared for anger at a father's obsessive homophobic hatred, fear of losing the one person who is your life, the love of found family, the fan yourself steamy lovemaking, the laughter through tragedy (loved the "putting baby in the corner" references), and the tear jerking moments; especially when they meet their Peanut and Travis. This family, this love, was fated from the start.

I received a copy of this audiobook from Audiobee Productions for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

**This Review Is For The Audiobook**

#Fate is Awesome!!

What an incredible job Cambria Hebert did with the writing of this story. it's so good in so many ways. Nick Mathews is a new to me narrator and he did the best job bringing this story and all of the characters to life. its a very fitting wrap on an awesomely amazing couple. And, another wedding.

Heartache and Love

I waited for this audible book of the story I cried over so long. Most beautiful story of tragedy, heartbreak and love I’ve ever read and heard!