Always Have

The Always Series, Book 1

De: Claire Kingsley

Narrado por: James Cavenaugh, Stephanie Wyles

Kylie's best friend Braxton is the hottest man she's ever known, with a rock hard body and a smile that melts the panties off every woman he meets.

Except Kylie. Mostly.

Kylie is anxious to get off the dating carousel and find something real. Despite the way Braxton tends to suck the air from her lungs, she knows he's trouble. He's just another player, and she's tired of the game.

But Braxton isn't the man she thinks.

The real reason he's sh*t with women is simple. None of the women he's with are the one he wants. None of them are Kylie.

He wants to love her in every way imaginable, but there's always something in the way. So he stays her friend, watching her date men who are too stupid to realize how special she is. Always worried the next one won't be. The next one will be the man who takes her from him forever.

Loving Kylie risks every fiber of their friendship, but losing her might be more than Braxton can take.

©2016 Claire Kingsley (P)2019 Tantor

Character development and story line were great

Loved the characters from the start, even when they did dumb things. Definitely worth the listen.

Could Not Finish with Audiobook Version

I may finish reading the book, but cannot listen to the female voice any longer. Every sentence she reads has the same inflection and I can’t get through it. Five hours in, but I just can’t anymore. Male voice was good though. Story to this point was good.

The female narrator is AWFUL!

This is a great book. I love the story line. However, I found myself fast forwarding a lot when the female narrator was talking and then just piecing the story together later on. Her voice is beyond annoying! It’s nails on a chalkboard annoying! Only other thing I disliked was how short it is compared to other authors. Kinda wish I wouldn’t have wasted a credit on it.

I really enjoyed Braxton

I enjoyed the male narrator all right, but the female not as much. It wasn’t as bad after I sped up the voices to 1.2.
Braxton has been in love with Kylie since he was a child. He didn't think anyone knew. He his it so well. You know, with all the women. Kylie never dreamed he would ever be interested in her. The two of them along with Braxton's twin sister are inseparable. No one wants to do anything to rock the boat. Especially when his sister is adamant he leaves her alone. What if you can't stay away.

This is why I don’t do YA

Yes, I know they were almost 30, however, they acted like college kids. The FMC was so vapid, especially in the beginning. And the narrator helped that perception. She seemed like she was portraying someone far younger than the character.

The MMC’s narration was much better. His character was also better than the MFC. I definitely tuned in during his chapters and tuned out during hers.

But by chapter 3, I changed the speed to 1.5x faster and blew through the book as quickly as possible to finish.

Friends to lovers is in my top 2 fav tropes. This one just didn’t do it for me.

Always ❤️🪦😉💙

I like a good friends to more book and this one is good. Kylie and Braxton have such a great friendship dynamic, and when they finally come together, it feels real.

The first half of the book is them with other people, and I usually don’t like that in a book. While I can appreciate that they were friends and Braxton goes through women because he can’t have the one he truly wants, I still didn’t like reading about him with others.

There is some sweet times and enough angst to bring out emotions but not leave your heart broken. It is very well written and a good read.

Nice narration.

Cute story- terrible narration.

The story was cute overall but the female narrator made it so difficult to fall in love with the characters and get through the story. Definitely won’t be able to get through the series since the female narrator is the same.

Some definite holes in the story

The story was okay but not great. It may have been better with a different female narrator. She definitely sounded like she was reading the story for the first time as she went along, everything was quite choppy. It seemed really strange to me that for three pretty much inseparable best friends, weeks and sometimes months go by where they don't see each other, even though they live fairly close. For criminy sakes, Braxton lives only a couple blocks from his twin sister and they don't hear from or see each other for weeks at a time. Also, the two women are supposed to be absolute besties, and yet the same thing - weeks go by where one hears very little from and is worried about the other, yet she doesn't haul her booty over to the other one's place and pound on the door to find out what's wrong? What the heck kind of a best friend is that? So, it's an okay story, but kind of shallow. The male narrator is much better than the female narrator.

A Delightful Surprise

I did not think I was going to like this book. The leads had the worst communication but as the story developed I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. While the female voice was occasionally a bit robotic the male vocals made up for it. This is without question worth a listen.

Selfish sister

It was hard to listen to this one. Seeing main characters with other people. Then they get together. Then he listened and CHOSE his sister over the love of his life. If this is love of your soulmate, I’m out of here! The sister was selfish and the H was weak. There’s no redemption for him and his sister. After he broke her heart, I wanted this story to end and wish the main characters move away from each other. Too bad the next book is about his sister and I’m not going to listen even it’s part of Audible.