Landon & Shay: Part One

The L&S Duet, Book 1

By: Brittainy C. Cherry

Narrated by: Miranda Jay, Teddy Hamilton

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Shay Gable hated my guts, and I hated hers, too.

We went out of our way to avoid one another at all times. When she came in my direction, I went the other. When we locked eyes, she’d turn and walk away.

All of that changed the day I was presented with a challenge. It started out as a stupid bet: make Shay fall in love with me before I fell in love with her first.

That was an easy bet for me to win.

I didn’t love. I hardly liked.

Yet slowly the game started to shift. Shay made me crave things I never knew I wanted.

Love.

Happiness.

Her.

The closer we grew, the more she challenged my darkness, and the parts I kept locked away.

The hurts.

The pains.

The truth.

The game between us became too real, our feelings intermixed, and the risks of hurting one another grew higher.

But you know what they say...

All’s fair in the game of love and war - especially the heartbreaks.

©2019 Brittainy C. Cherry (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

Sad love story

I don't know how you do it how you continue to write the stories that are so sad and so heartbreaking Right down to your soul and you are there With the characters heartache and everything they are going through

Amazing story but has some narration issues

Story:
I loved this book so much! It doesn’t quite top Eleanor & Grey which was the book that introduced me to Brittainy C. Cherry and to these characters, but it’s a close thing.

I always love a good enemies to lovers story and the bet was a cute way to move along the story. I loved how the characters began to open up and how it the book didn’t shy away from heavy, emotional topics and depicting people with mental illness.

I cried multiple times while reading this book and that’s always a huge win for me with books. I love books that make me feel something.

The ending left me dying for more so I’m so glad part two is already out. I’m starting it now!


Narration:
I listened to this book on Audible and unfortunately that was the worst part of the experience. If I could rate the narration separately it would probably by a 3.5. There were multiple issues with the narration. It wasn’t the voice actors voices, but rather actual errors. At one point the narration refers to Landon’s uncle as Dan rather than Lance. There’s also a part where the female voice actor mispronounced a word and they re-recorded the line with the pronunciation corrected but it played after the un-corrected version of the line so there was just this one part twice. I was listening while driving and stuff so I couldn’t check every since issue against the ebook but I did check the Dan thing when I could and the ebook version I checked did not say Dan, it said Lance. Overall the voice actors voices were very enjoyable to read I just wish there wasn’t the quality issues.

Gorgeous story

As usual, miss Cherry delivers a wonderful story. Her characters are extremely well developed. She has so much power in nearly every word on the page. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I felt like I knew her characters and I felt like I relayed it to them. Her description of depression and how it feels it’s so very real. I can’t wait to read book 2 in the duet. The performance above narrators was spot on. I think that they did a wonderful verbal rendition of this book. Overall, it was a wonderful experience. I would recommend this book to anyone.

What makes you sad.

I have no words to describe this book. All I can say is if a reader is a fan of author Brittainy Cherry, this book is a must read.

5 stars x2

Props BCC for another 5* book and 5*'s for shining a light on mental health.

A great story, don't miss it.

Emotional, wonderfully complicated relationships. A drive down the angst of young love, but very real depression topics.

You would think this was a depressing book; but honestly it gave me a bit of a healing feeling.

Do yourself a favor, and try this book. A great story.

“It started with a bet but ended in truths…”

This must be the best duet in the series… it touched on some heavy heavy real life situation…(I wish they were in college though, high school seemed just way too young.) The heavy matter in this book were handled with respect and one still got to go through it with the characters. You have no choice but to love these two characters.

I personally don’t care for too much angst and enemies-to-lovers isn’t even my fifth choice but this, this was done beautifully that enemies to lovers wasn’t the first thing… the story pulled you in… the female protagonist didn’t look for stupid stuff to fight over… it felt like taking a peek in someone’s story, living it with them.

Narration: I mean, it’s Teddy Hamilton, what could go wrong? Miranda Jay was perfect as Shay… the only thing that would have made it better is if they did a duet
narration… chef’s kiss…

Worth a credit? That’s a resounding YES! Heading to read book 2 then buy the physical copies…

4🌟

Love Brittainy's writing in that she combines some romance with real life issues. This story revolves around Landon and Shay who hate each other but a bet forces them to get to know each other and whoever falls in love first loses. They didn't anticipate the outcome.

Brittainy touches on mental illness, domestic/family struggles, drug addiction, and some bullying. It was a really good read and look forward to the next.

Amazing!

Love it!! Made me love reading again! The man and lady narrating the story made it feel so real—Erin

A Story That Hirs You Hard in the Heart!

This story deals with drug addiction, mental illness, bullying, and depression. It’s a love story between two enemies who make a bet that one of them will fall in love with the other. Of course, like any love story you know it’s going to happen. They are going to fall in love, and live happily ever after, right? Nope! Because in this story, there are complications. There are self doubts, suicidal thoughts, worthlessness. How does one deal with someone in a relationship like that? It takes unconditional love and forgiveness, But sometimes that is enough. There has to be professional help.

This is that story. Unconditional love from friends and family. They are the ones who help us get through our lowest moments. I loved this story of these two high school kids just trying to make it through life.