New York Knights

Complete Series

By: S. M. West

Narrated by: Lauren Sweet, Noelle Bridges, Troy Duran, Jason Clakre, Devra Woodward, Stephen Dexter, Ava Erickson, Jacob Morgan, Caitlin Elizabeth, Jakobi Diem

Length: 37 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

From USA TODAY bestselling author S.M. West comes the complete New York Knights series for the first time in one collection.

Discover a world of filth and depravity in this steamy and emotionally thrilling series. A group of lifelong friends battle organized crime and evil and in the end, each will bring justice and find their own HEAs. This box set includes Reckless Night, Fallen Night, Captive Night, Relentless Night, and Broken Night.

*Contains sensitive and mature topics. Recommended for ages 18 and up.*

©2017, 2018, 2020 S. M. West (P)2022 S. M. West

Good deal

Love to be able to listen to all 5 book for one credit.

Love Reckless Night. Lots of feels there.

Strong hate and annoyance for Captive Night. Horrible main leads!

Enjoyed the characters

This was a story that kept the characters alive and together for the whole set.

Let down

The first book was entertaining, the remaining were hard to get through. Narration after the first book was absolutely terrible. As I moved through the books, I felt the characters became clueless, oblivious, emotionally immature (Anna & Coops story was the worst) and just not relatable or believable. The characters drone on and on about nonsensical things. By the last two books I found myself skipping through.

DNF

I made it to chapter seven before giving in. I cannot stand nasally, overly emphatic narration. Lauren Sweet makes me want to scream. I feel like the book—and possibly the entire series have potential for storyline, but the thoughts of finishing the first book and then the second before moving on to a new female narrator are just too much. I love Troy Duran (and several of the others), and am always sad to give a low performance rating, because it doesn’t accurately reflect my overall opinion, but I simply cannot stand whiny, nasally female narrators, and being honest in my reviews is the only way I know to let recording agents know. See following rant:

Dear Recording Agents & Female Narrators, I’m begging you, please learn to narrate more naturally. The general consensus is that listeners DO NOT enjoy the theatrical rendition of audiobooks with overly emphatic and nasally enunciations. Please see how we rave about narrators like Andy Arndt, Jacob Morgan/Zachery Webber, Joe Arden, and other phenomenal narrators. Please stop the nasally whining and the over-emphasizing of descriptions and emotional internal monologues of the characters. It truly RUINS the entire experience. I’ve passed up more audiobooks by authors whose works I love and whose stories I know I will enjoy because of irritating narrators. Please learn how to read and speak as naturally as possible. It would go a very long way in promoting you as a talented narrator. If it doesn’t sound natural—as in, that’s how you (or anyone) would sound in that situation in reality, then please work on correcting that. It’s horrible to listen to a nassally, whiny, and cringeworthy narrator emphasizing every single mundane phrase for hours upon hours. I barely make it through some of these books by way of the reprieve I get when the female stops speaking and a wonderful male lead takes over. I hear so many terrible female narrators paired with phenomenal male voices and it is so frustrating—especially when I go to rate the performance and want to leave one star for the female, but a 10 out of 5 for the male. And I’m not sure why, but there are less annoyingly intolerable male voices than female—although I have run across a few males, too. Perhaps it’s that the females are more prone to nasal whines and over-emphasis than the males, making their odd speaking cadences the single annoying factor, whereas the females tend to have all three of those cringeworthy traits when reading. Either way, can we please stage an intervention? At an average cost of $15 per book and $40 for many romances that should have been consolidated into one book or anthology, it’s very frustrating that these popular female leads are not working to correct these repulsive styles of reading—especially given how the audiobook market is expanding and reviewers are outspoken about it. C’mon already! STOP READING THROUGH YOUR NOSE while DRAMATIZING COMMON, EVERYDAY THOUGHTS AND PHRASES, and reading every single sentence with a weird cadence as if you were a first-grader with a Dick & Jane book (See Dick. See Dick Run. See Jane. See Jane Run. See Dick and Jane run. See Spot. See Spot run….) Some of you would read it through your noses with an unusually choppy syntactical structure like this (starts and stops with oddly emphasized randomness): SEE! Dick. …… See JANEEEEEE! ……. See DICK—and Jane. Runnnnnnuuuuhhhhhhh! Audiobooks are not stage dramas; stop the over-emphatic annunciations, please!