Justice: New Species, Book 4

By: Laurann Dohner

Narrated by: Vanessa Chambers

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Justice North is the face of New Species. Seeing him up close makes Jessie’s heart race. He’s the ultimate alpha male - big, muscular, exotically beautiful… and dangerous. Of course he’s off limits. But then the sexy man purrs and all bets are off. Jessie Dupree is a mouthy, fiery human female who brings out the animal in Justice. She wants to show him how to relax, and he’s all for anything she wants to do, but Justice has sworn to protect his people and to take a Species mate.

He’s torn between the woman he wants and the oath he’s taken. Jessie knows a relationship between them probably won’t end well; heartbreak is inevitable. But that won’t stop her from freeing the wildness inside Justice and spending every moment she can steal wrapped around his hot body, making him roar with passion.

©2011 Laurann Dohner (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

The New Species Leader!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💜💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😠☺️😋😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Jessie - she had seen Justice North on television but thinks he is even more handsome in person. He gave orders to her bosses at the task force and held the power to change some of the task force policies that she didn’t agree with. She thought the issues were important, but she wasn’t allowed to attend the meetings with Justice.

The Hero: Justice - He is the leader of the New Species who are now citizens of the United States since they were created with tax dollars and born on US soil. The New Species now have two large plots of land which they own. One was called Homeland and the other was called Reservation.

The Story: When a recently released New Species male attacked Jessie, Justice North stepped in and rescued her. He took charge and swore to make sure his people knew how to act in the future. Justice invited Jessie to dinner so they could talk. Her attraction to him grew the more they got to know each other and his to her. Though Justice had planned to mate with another Species and not to a human, he knew he couldn’t have her.

There were some parts of this book that I didn’t like. First of all was her boss Ted who kept saying that he thinks of her as a daughter and would spank her if she didn’t stay back away from the danger. Then after she showed that she was up to the task and killed three men that were after her team and rescued the New Species woman they were after, but she got shot by a sniper as they were getting away. Her father, who was a senator, fired her from the job. She looked weak when she just accepted it even though a different job was offered to her.

This book is told in multiple points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Vanessa Chambers. I liked her narration of the first three books when I listened to them a while back. I have to admit some of the scenes with the two main characters were pretty stilted. I don’t know if it was the story or the narration. I just finished listening to most of the VLG series by the same author and I really enjoyed the narrator on that series, Savannah Richards. Vanessa is good, but not quite as good as Savannah.

They Just Keep Getting Better!

What did you love best about Justice?

His loyalty towards his people, even at cost to himself.

What did you like best about this story?

The Bar Squabbles/Fights between Justice and Jessie.

Have you listened to any of Vanessa Chambers’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Vanessa Chambers does an excellent job with the character voices. Her narration has improved a great deal since the first book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Most definitely! It kept my attention, which is hard to do, lol.

Any additional comments?

I'm looking forward to the next installment "Brawn". He only had a small role in this book, but he peaked my interest.

Great New Species romance!

I really enjoyed this audiobook a lot! This story is about Jessie Dupree, the female task force member who helps rescue New Species. She meets Justice North, the leader of the NS at Tammy and Valiant’s wedding when he saves her from an upset newly freed male. They spend an evening together and it ends up in bed. Then while Justice is making a speech, Jessie gets called away on a mission. Something unexpected happens and Jessie gets fired from the task force by her father, the Senator. Taking a new job at Homeland offered by Justice she’s happy they will get to see each other again. Except Justice has an idea stuck in his mind that he will only take another NS for a mate and this causes them a lot of problems. Narration was excellent.

Fun changling romance series

Any additional comments?

It's a fun light romance changeling series. A bit predictable - standard fluff, but most of these types are. Romances are always more fun when they involve lions & tigers & bears oh my! (Or shifters, vampires & other things that go bump in the night). What I'm waiting for is a hook up between one of the "amazon" female shifters & a shifter male, that might be interesting? I've listened to 1-4 & will continue the series if I can get them at a good price, not sure if I would buy the rest at full credits. Reminds me of The Breed series by Lora Leigh and a bit like the Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh. It's listed here as "Erotica" but I certainly wouldn't classify it as that. Yes, there are sex scenes but they're pretty run of the mill & don't occur that often. Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire/Shifter series gets way kinkier & I still wouldn't classify her as erotica either!

Love the book

Love the book and the other NS.
The only thing I would change is a male narrator for the NS male characters-the female performer doesn't sound good with the male voice.

Just-is great

Where does Justice rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Out of all in this series it's the best narrated. Out of all audiobooks it's in the top 10.

What did you like best about this story?

I loves how you could almost feel along with the characters. I also likes how the narrator portrayed Justice. She did a good job of making him sound like the composed leader of the species.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Vanessa Chambers?

This narrator is getting better with each of the books in this series. She's finally starting to read the male species parts with the deep masculine tone I would expect from them.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

If I had the time, yes.

Favorite in the series!!

This was my favorite book in the series. Loved the narrators voice for both main characters and loved the strong, sassy woman that Justice ended up with. Highly recommend!

Different from other 3 books, but still great

I listened to the first 3 books and so far story of Justice was the most interesting and refreshing. There is finally a female character who kicks ass and strong as the male characters. And it was refreshing to hear that Justice loosen some control. It was amazing listening to the story of Justice and Jessie, especially their fight and their breakup sex or whatever you call it. Lol. It was hot whenever Justice lose control because of Jessie.

Not my fav of the series but still a good book.

What does Vanessa Chambers bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narrator is the reason that I have purchased every audio book in this series. The story is good but the narrator Vanessa Chambers makes this book a thousand times better!!! A narrator can totally kill a book and this is an example where the narrator just makes this book AMAZING!!! Great Job

Its a great series if you like shifters!

This is my first time with a shifter type series and I have to say I have enjoyed all the New Species books, it has a solid plot, good characters, and the narration performance is great too. All the things that pulls a good book into an enjoyable audio book. They do keep you coming back for more. Romance plus action with some steam in between. Give them a try you may be very pleasantly surprised.