The World as He Sees It

Perspectives Series #2

By: A. M. Arthur

Narrated by: Guy Locke

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Gabe lives a double life. As Gabriel Henson, he works multiple jobs to support his remorseless alcoholic mother. As Tony Ryder, he does Internet porn for extra cash. When he encounters a scared young man freaking out in a nightclub, Gabe is compelled to reach out. Ever since then the memory of that young man has haunted him.

Tristan Lavelle lives his life 30 minutes at a time. After a traumatic brain injury three years ago, he gets through his days recording his life in spiral notebooks and sticky note reminders. A month after Tristan's embarrassingly public meltdown, another chance meeting with Gabe sparks a warm, emotionally fulfilling email relationship. Both men crave more but fear of the next step stands between them - until Tristan gets the opportunity to take part in a clinical trial that could improve his memory.

©2015 A. M. Arthur (P)2016 Tantor

Character development

I’m really enjoying this series. They are all good stories. I love the characters. Nice story

It’s all about the sex

I detest romance books that are all about the sex and assume love follows the chemistry. The premise of Tristan’s condition was intriguing, which is why I purchased this audiobook. But his eagerness for a sexual relationship with a stranger after years of celibacy fits with a hormonal teenager infatuation more than a genuine love story.

The narration may have been a large part of my dissatisfaction with the story line as that can make a huge impact on character interpretation.

Beautiful story, dynamic narration

I loved this story even more than the first one in the series. Unlike many spinoffs, this one shows us much more of the first couple, especially Noel and his best friend, the undeniably adorable Tristan. The narrator read just a tad too slow for me, so I listened at 1.1x speed. The voices were well distinguished, and the meaning and emotions were well conveyed.

Not as good as Book 1

This was one of those weird times where I didn't like the narrators' performance as much in this book as the previous book. This is Tristan and Gabe's story, two men we met in Book 1. Although technically this is a stand alone, I really don't think you can enjoy it as much unless you listen to Book 1. Noel and Shane are prominent in this story. I enjoyed MC and their courtship, Tristan's struggle with his health issues and Gabe and Noel's friction. I think the story was longer than it had to be with Gabe's family drama thrown it. But the only real issue I had was with the narrator's performance of Gabe's voice. I really hated it; he sounded like a doofus IMHO. Also, the author's overuse of the word "definitely" really grated on my nerves after a while. I kept hearing that little girl from the kid's show Dragon Tales in my head; she says definitely a lot. Granted, that is just me and probably not something other listeners will have a problem with. Overall, a good installment, but I don't think I will continue the series.

Not as good as first in series but worth it

As I thoroughly enjoyed book 1, this one was a bit of a let down. Not as much going on, too slow and not unique enough from first book. Enjoyed Tristan's dealing with memory loss, thought that was a nice perspective but that was the only really good part of the whole story.

I chose to give it 5 stars anyway because had I not read this directly after book 1, put a month or two between them, it might not have been so slow and repetitive.

Still thought narrator was only average.

Performance too slow.

This was a lovely story, but the performer read entirely too slow. I had to put the speed at 1.5x in order to listen to it.

Sweet Book!

I really liked this book. I loved Tristan's character, he's someone you want to jump into the book and just Hug. lol. And I am really Glad that Gabe is fine with Tristan's memory loss issues and that it doesn't affect their relationship too much. I was also happy with the fact that Tristan is ok with Gabe's Job in the porn industry as well. That was a happy plus to the story. Not too much angst in this book like the first one it was the perfect amount of everything. This is my favorite so far from this series.
Audio - Again Guy does a great job with this one. I really liked his voice for Tristan on this one and had no problem following along with the story at all. Glad to see he is also listed as the narrator for book 3 and I will be listening to that one next.

Feel good listen

Although real life, heavy themes, well written to keep the tension, but not bring you down. Woven well to get to the HEA. Narration, excellent. Fave of the series so far; want more of this couples story.

Ironically Enough I Can't Remember the Ending

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

no

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I can't remember it.

Did Guy Locke do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

No, only the MC with the traumatic brain injury had a different voice, Guy Locke read slower for one character which is a poor substitute for using a different voice.

Do you think The World as He Sees It needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

NO!

Any additional comments?

Nope, Thinking of spending a credit on this? Forget it!

Performance improved when I bumped up the speed

I am rubbish at reviewing, books, but I want to add to the other reviews. I agree the narration seemed a little dull, but by increasing the playback speed to 1.25x - it improved the narrators performance a lot.