Clutch

Forbidden Desires, Book 1

De: Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

Narrado por: Michael Ferraiuolo

Bookish, snarky, and fiercely independent Nate Boudreaux leads a solitary life. Between teaching classes at the university and working toward his PhD, he doesn’t need a partner to occupy his time, and he certainly doesn’t need a man like Alistair Drake complicating his future.

Alistair Drake, black sheep of the tremendously wealthy Drake family, is more interested in adding another notch to his bedpost than another zero to his bank account. When a Grindr message brings him to Nate’s doorstep, then straight to his bed, he has no reason to believe that what they share will be more than a simple hookup, until, three months later, a tug on his soul informs him otherwise.

For the Drake family has a secret - one that will force Nate and Alistair together as much as it will demand that they be torn apart. One that Alistair and his brothers have carried all their lives...and one that Alistair and Nate’s future children will carry, too.

Bound to each other by the three precious impossibilities, Nate and Alistair have no choice - no matter the consequence, they will fight for their forbidden clutch.

Clutch is a 64,000 word steamy omegaverse mpreg-ish romance that will leave you in stitches. It contains a Grindr hook-up gone very wrong (or very right), giant magical lizards, a pig named Olive, a wank throne, and a HEA, right down to the white picket fence.

©2018 Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly (P)2019 Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

Fantastic start to a new series!

Forbidden Desires immediately climbed to the top of my favorites and reread lists. When I found out that Michael Ferraiuolo was doing audio I was ecstatic. Ecstatic is probably tame to what I was actually feeling.

This series is a unique take on Dragon shifters as a whole and it's absolutely fabulous. The writing is on point the story is amusing heartfelt and addicting. This first book in the series introduces a new element to Piper Scott's omegaverse that fits in flawlessly. The writing duo of Kelly and Scott is like a one-two knockout punch in a boxing ring. They complement each other and bring the stories to a whole new level.

And then you have the incredibly talented Michael voicing an already incredibly awesome story and raising it to another level. He brings these characters and this story to life in a way that has rarely been seen in my opinion in the audio world. I'm talking huge levels of fabulousness. You bring all of these things together and you have the first book in the series that immediately went into my re-listen rotation.

So cute!!!

I'm not generally a bog fan of dragon shifter stories, but this one was delightful. It was fun and sweet and hot. And Michael Ferraiuolo did a great job narrating.

As advertised

Exactly the sort of fluffy story I wanted. Great narration. Good story for when you do not want to think too hard or deal with much angst.

The best series

I have read this book multiple times in ebook, audiobook, and even the limited edition hard back version and it always makes me happy to see Harry.

Yes I know that this is not about him but he is my favorite and when he is hurt and missing Steve, I get tears in my eyes.

Michael Ferraiuolo's narration is perfect and he nails all the characters.

Great Narration!

Michael Ferraiuolo’s performance is amazing, absolutely amazing. I have liked every performance I have heard from him and this was particularly superb. He had incredible voices for each character with Alistair and his brothers having a refined, upscale tone to reflect their status in life. Nate’s voice was filled with all the emotions and inflection that his situation warranted and Harry’s geek-like scientific tone was the entertaining comic relief. While I liked the story, I loved the audio version and would highly recommend this performance as clearly one of the best of the year.

This was a fun read with good characters and an interesting story. Nate and Alistair meet by hookup and think they will only spend one night together. But if you are familiar with what a clutch is you can see where this story might be heading. We learn early on that Alistair is a dragon and the two men have inadvertently sired an unsanctioned clutch. This sets off the entire story as while Nate is an omega, Nate didn’t know there were dragons, and neither did his science geek roommate, Harry, who is thrilled with the developments and offers some comic relief early on in the story.

Alistair and Nate form a shaky alliance at first. They are thrust together by circumstances and are more bound to each other than they were ever expecting. We see a lot through Nate’s eyes as he learns all about Alistair’s family, clan, and the laws that rule the dragons. Alistair is the smallest of his brothers and is less successful than they are. By less successful, he is only a multi-millionaire where his brothers are billionaires. This is linked back to the hoard mentality of dragons, but Alistair has been treated badly by his family for years, so many many years, because of what they see as a lack of wealth.

Nate and Alistair fall for each other and the fated mates aspect moves that along quickly. I didn’t feel they had a full on sweeping romance here, but it was certainly enjoyable to watch them interact. There was more depth to this story than maybe you might think upfront as we see Nate and Alistair go up against the ruling forces of the clan to protect and keep the clutch safe. I do not read that much omegaverse and I could have used a little more overall world building and at times and I felt like Harry as I had as many questions as he did. But if you don’t need all the answers to all the things this will work better for you in that area. The ending got a little muddled for me as “bad guys” make a sudden appearance and that was hastily put together for me and just as hastily resolved. But the highlight here is Nate and Alistair and their clutch making their way into a future they never expected.