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Heart Block

By: Melissa Brayden
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
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Publisher's summary

Happily ever after is easier said than done....

Sarah Matamoros can’t complain. After immigrating from Mexico when she was nine years old, she’s content with the life she’s made for herself in sunny San Diego. She works hard at her mother’s housecleaning service by day and spends the evenings with her quirky eight-year-old daughter, Grace.

From a very young age, Emory Owen had several concepts drilled into her head. Success is everything. Be the best. Fight your way to the top. Expectations were high in the Owen household and the world was watching. Born into a high society family, Emory never wanted for anything...at least anything money could buy. When she meets Sarah, hired to sort her mother’s home, her sterile life suddenly sparks into color.

But when the emotional logistics of combining two very different worlds proves to be too much, a terrifying turn of events spurs the question: If love exists, can it really find a way?

©2012 Melissa Brayden (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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  • Categories: Romance

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Narrator wrecks this book!

This is a sweet book. I love the characters and the journey of their romance but I wish I had read it instead of listened to it. Mia Chiaromonte should NEVER narrate romance novels unless maybe they are for teens.
Firstly her voice is so super peppy at all times that I felt like she lost a lot of the deeper and more subtle points of the novel. Also one thing I love about Melissa Brayden is the dry sometime sarcastic sense of humor of her characters. The chirpy narration completely misses and glosses over it. Also who really wants Pollyanna narrating a sex scene. Just no. Nope. Nope. Nope!
My biggest problem was very fake and thick accent she gave to Sara. As someone who immigrated to this country as a child (with an accent), I can tell you that after 10 years of living in this country I had no accent.
The author makes a point of saying that Sara took pains to lose her accent in Junior High. Also people who refer to her accent in the book say they hear a 'hint' of an accent. Ms. Chiarmonte makes it sound like Sara came to America yesterday (from some Hollywood version of Mexico where the inhabitants all sound like Speedy Gonzalez).
It was very annoying and took me out of the story time after time. My advice for anyone wanting to buy this is for them to get the book instead.

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Good Listen

With the exceptions of some over reliance on cliches and a senseless breakup towards the end which seemed quite contrived I liked it okay I guess. Another issue which seems to plague most if not all Melissa Brayden's works is that it seems that before she even begins a story she chooses one of the MC's to be the victim and the other is designated as the one who must apologize in all situations where a disagreement occurs between the two of them. Perhaps I'm just a contrarian but in many of her books I see the situation differently than the author. Due to a couple of these interactions I dropped my rating from 4 stars to 3; at one point I was huge fan the author's works, I still give all her books a chance but I approach them less enthusiastically now.

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Sweet Story, Witty Writing & Fantastic Narration

What I loved about Heart Block was the combination of great writing and the way the narrator captured the spirit of the characters. This story was sweet without too much drama which I generally prefer for romance novels. This is definitely a story I will listen to many times.

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Great story!

I love everything about this. The characters were great, I enjoyed the story and the narration was great! I haven’t listened to a Melissa Brayden book that I didn’t really enjoy!

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Great story!

I really enjoyed this story & the narrator was great! This is my second Melissa Brayden book & I'm definetely a fan!

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My favorite!

I read this book a few years back. It's actually my favorite by this author. I'm not sure how I feel about this narrator. I gotta say, I interpreted the book in my mind differently from the way it was narrated. I will probably reread this book again in the future, not sure if I will listen to the audio though. It wasn't extremely bad, just wasn't my cup of tea. There were mistakes made by the narrator that I noticed. I loved the book though, it was a beautiful story and very well written. If you're a bookworm like myself, I believe you will enjoy reading this title more than listening to it. Happy reading!

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Good story bad narrator

The story is not bad at all but the narrator it didn’t n’t help that much! It could be much better with someone who just not reading the story! At one point I wanted to give up.

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Great story; less than stellar narration

This is one of my favourite lesfic books, but it’s let down by the narration, which is pretty monotone with little voice variation (except for an “hispanic” accent that also didn’t vary amongst characters).

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HEART BLOCK

Another terrific novel by Melissa Brayden. I listened to this story using Audible and enjoyed it totally. Melissa knows how to tell an entertaining story with great characters. 03/10/2020.

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A keeper

Stoery was good .. very good actually.. couldn't stop listening.. was really good.. and i have a picture

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