Where Are You

By: Sally Bryan

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Her first love disappeared...

Ten years later, a strange twist of fate forces a life-changing decision.

Surrounded by strangers at her Cambridge initiation, the chronically shy Erin suffers a panic attack in the middle of the atrium. Out of her depth, she decides to flee, University is not for her. And that's when she blunders into a foreign student from Italy.

Gianna is confident, sassy and eccentric, everything Erin's not, and for some reason, she's taking the timid girl under her wing. But she has a secret, and it's one she can't even tell her new best friend.

It should never have happened, they were so different, yet unexpectedly, they fall in love.

Then Gianna disappears, breaking Erin's heart and throwing her back into a negative spiral of loss.

A decade later, the now Dr. Baker has moved on. Or so she thought.

When fate repeatedly conspires to remind Erin of her lost love, she must decide whether to risk destroying everything she's built to find her. But after so long, will Gianna be happy to reconcile? Why did she disappear so suddenly? And why has Erin not heard from her since?

Contains mature themes.

©2014 Sally Bryan (P)2020 Tantor

Two Hearts Break

Erin was crippling shy and about to bolt from her Cambridge initiation when she meets Gianna, an Italian. Gianna takes Gianna under her wing and becomes her best friend. Then their relationship moves to a new level and Erin is on a cloud. But then Gianna disappears. Ten years later, Dr. Erin Baker travels to Italy with her fiancé to track down the woman who changed her life. A story of forbidden love, friendship and redemption of a timeless romance.

An enjoyable book

Where are you, is a nicely written book and had such beautiful potential to be a truly wonderful romance novel.

Justine Eyre did a wonderful job narrating and I would definitely listen to her again. I could listen to her voice all day…and did LOL.

What I liked about this book is how refreshing it was to read, in this case listen to, a book that did not follow the same template for most lesbian romance novels I have read and/or listened to. Just for that I have to applaud the author. The characters were well done but I think the author had Erin come out of her shell a little to quick or more accurately moved that part of the story along to fast by having Erin becoming more social with no scenes of her refusing to do the things Gia wanted socially. Gia was a very believable outgoing opposite to Erin’s shrinking violet personality.

What I did not like about this book is mainly all the darn flashbacks. Sorry but I really do not much care for books that have tons of flashbacks especially long flashbacks which this book has a lot of especially in the first two thirds of the book. Another thing I did not like is how Gia was made to just up and leave. I can understand the “in the moment” rush to go home due to the circumstances learned later in the story but to never try to contact someone you “love” for ten years is one of the farfetched things in the book I find hard to believe and even though Erin tried to contact her to me she gave up to quickly but in all fairness this is the way the author wanted it so this is the way it happened.

With my dislike of flashbacks known the book was still interesting and enjoyable to listen to but, for me this would have been a lot better if all the flashbacks made up the first part of the book. The overall story was interesting even though some parts were a bit farfetched but it is a fictional story and in that respect anything becomes possible.

Excellent book!

I really enjoyed this book. The story was interesting and I loved the locations. The narrator did an awesome job with the different accents.

Love this story!

This book really pulled on my heart strings and I quickly got invested in the characters. Easily becoming one of my favorites. It kept me up till an ungodly hour just dying to hear how their story unfolded! The narrator was fantastic, Well done all around. Writing and narration 5/5! ⭐️

Loved It

Great writing.... but the most amazing narrations.... great job!!! Easily now one of my favorite narrators