Bulletproof

A Matter of Time, Book 5

By: Mary Calmes

Narrated by: Jeff Gelder

Jory Harcourt doesn't have to go looking for trouble. Wherever he goes, it seems to find him - particularly when his partner, Sam Kage, is working undercover on a federal task force.

After the recession forces him to close his business, Jory goes to work as a matchmaker and event planner. From there, it's only a matter of time before his big mouth and up-front attitude make him the rope in a tug-of-war between a trust-fund baby and a drug-smuggling criminal. Then, as if that situation weren't delicate enough, Jory's undercover lover shows up working for the smuggler.

Between the men who want him and the men who just want him dead, Chicago is getting a little crowded for Jory, so on the advice of his brother, his boyfriend, and the FBI task force, he heads for Hawaii...where a serious accident threatens his quality of life. Can Sam and Jory keep the faith and prove that their relationship really is bulletproof?

©2011 Mary Calmes (P)2013 Mary Calmes

Great story

I was not a fan of the narrator. He had quite a few mispronunciations and was too computer generated sounding. I love the story though!

Good story

Ok, I love the series but the change in narrator was a huge mistake.. When binge listening the whole series I have hard time listening to this one because of the narrators interpretation of Jory's voice.

What Happened to Jory?

First, the editing is bad and the new narrator is jarring compared to the first. Next, it's like Jory is a completely different person from any of the other books before or after. It's like someone else wrote him. This book is always disappointing when I read it.

Like reading a manual...

One of my favorite books and I just wanted to delete it, it was so badly narated... First time this happenedbto me!!! Just glad he didn't do the next one because I would have given up... Very dry and monotonous...

Would have been better with a different narrator.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I would change the narrator. He has a nice voice, but his inflections at the end of sentences was a bit irritating. You know that thing where some people talk like each sentence is a question? That's how it sounded to me. Sentences that do not end with a question mark sounded like it did. Also, there was very little variation between character voices which made it difficult to tell which character was speaking in scenes where there are several characters talking and there weren't narrative clues like 'x said' then 'y said'.

Other annoyances were how the narrator spoke too fast, where he stumbled a few times and repeated some words or seemed like he was about to say something else.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Less of the whole 'Everybody Loves Jory' thing. It was getting really tiresome with how everyone just loooooooves Jory, wanted to sleep with him, or look like him, how everyone just kept telling him how beautiful, perfect, etc. he is. It would have been nice if Sam Kage had more scenes rather than all those random characters.

Would you be willing to try another one of Jeff Gelder’s performances?

Not unless he can change the way he narrates. Don't talk as fast, don't end sentences like they're questions when they aren't. Or having weird pauses within a sentence. He actually did Sam's voice pretty well, which is what stopped this from getting 1 star for performance.

Did Bulletproof inspire you to do anything?

Nope. Not really that kind of book.

Any additional comments?

I wouldn't mind buying this again if they got the same narrator that did the first 2 books (Morey) to re-do this one.