His Bane

The District, Book 2

De: Courtney W. Dixon

Narrado por: Harley Chase

He is mine. I don't care how long it takes. I will have Malik Amin.

Sullivan Beauchamp: Some people call me a monster. A psychopath. As if I care what others think. So what if I relish in the mayhem of slaughter or enjoy feeling the life blink out of someone? I am who I am. It was Malik who eventually brought me to his home and trained me to hone my skills to work under him as an assassin. Malik Amin is my equal, and he will be mine in all ways as soon as I can chip away at his ridiculous and completely unnecessary self-loathing.

Malik Amin: Sully lost everything as a teenager on my order. When I found him covered in blood four years later, I should have put him down, knowing what he was. Instead, I took him in to train him. It works for us until he wants me more than as a mentor. I cannot allow it. But if Sully is anything, he is a master at persuasiveness and discovering my weaknesses.

©2024, 2025 Courtney W. Dixon (P)2025 Courtney W. Dixon

His Bane

The narration brings this book to life and inflect so much emotion to the story. My only issue with the narration is the accent does change subtly from time to time. Overall, it’s a great listen

Amazing listening experience

This book is so good and this audio version is absolute perfection!! I loved this dark twisted story that is Sully and Malik. But hearing Harley Chase bring them to life was amazing. He did such an incredible job with Sully.

Sully and Malik have a long dark story to share. So please check your content and trigger warnings before reading. If you are okay with them, then buckle up because Courtney delivers one dark, slow burn story. I mean, we are in the world of assassins for hire. This book is darker and stays dark the entire time.

I knew from the moment we met Sully in book 1 His Death Bringer that I definitely needed his story. This is not filled with super sweet, cute moments. It is dark, filled with pain and suffering for both characters, and is a hard fought HEA. This is a slow burn, but we meet Sully when he is 12 yrs old. Their relationship goes through several stages, and the time that passes during the story is needed. Malik feels responsible for things that happen to Sully and tries to do what he thinks is right for him. We get to see what makes Sully into the person he is, and it will break your heart. Malik doesn't have it easy before he comes to be involved in Sullys life. Not only does he keep punishing himself for past events, but he also denies himself any type of happiness. Sully, with his possessive, protective, and obsessive ways, pushes Malik until he gives in and becomes his. Seeing Sully working to understand and finding a way to express how he feels about Malik is amazing.

Courtney does a great job with their relationship. It is definitely not something that works for everyone. She does a brilliant job showing that love can be felt and expressed in many ways. But I loved seeing them find what was best for them.

harley chase works his magic again

reading his bane, it was VERY clear that sully was going to be one of those characters that would need to be narrated *just right*. the narration for him specifically was most definitely going to make or break this book. overplay sully’s psychopathic character traits, and you turn him into a
caricature. underplay them and everything courtney’s written loses its spine. lucky for the listener, harley and courtney are audiobook soulmates. she gives him the characters with full faith that he’s going to treat them well. and he takes the characters and brings them to life with this innate understanding of their inner workings. and what harley does here with sully is truly chilling. he perfectly captures everything about sully’s baleful nature, but also the ridiculous golden retriever parts of him that are a different flavor of crazy from the knife-wielding ones. everything about this book was masterfully done, but with courtney and harley at the helm, i expected nothing less than perfection

Very Dark Romance

I’m going to call this assassin’s in love. They are both ruthless in their own ways, even to each other. Definitely check triggers before reading/listening.

A great second book of the series

His Bane is the second book in The District series. Sully is a child when the story begins. He loses his family, and years later Malik, who was partly responsible for the disappearance of Sully's family, takes him on as an apprentice. Harley Chase does a magnificent job narrating and bringing the characters to life. The characters can be differentiated by the tone the narrator uses, which makes it easier to connect with the story.

Sully and Malik!!!

This one is a bit harder to listen to because boy did Sully and Malik go through a lot but I did enjoy learning their story. Harley Chase always does an amazing job and I did a double take when he came in as Malik! I loved being able to differentiate the two characters. I love this series and each character’s journey.

Loved it!

Thank You Courtney for this ARL!
ALC Review:
His Bane is book 2 of The District Series. This one follows Sullivan and Malik Amin.
I’ve had the privilege to listen to this series and I’ve loved every single one of them. To me Harley Chase does an amazing job bringing this character’s to life. He also did a great job on Malik’s accent. You could tell the emotionless of Sully’s personality.
Definitely recommend this whole series and this one is a must if you love unhinged, emotionless characters like Sully.

Beyond Amazing

Harley has outdone himself again!!!

I thought the last book I listened to was his best, but I was wrong. I have a new favorite!

From the start of this book I was instantly transported into the story. The writing, plot, and narration come together to create perfection. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor a time or two.

I loved the emotions and depth Harley brought to Malik and Sully’s characters. They both are deep characters already but hearing them added even more. It was unbelievable. As “cold” & distant as these two tried to be to one another you could still feel & hear the underlying desires they have.

There’s a lot of events that happen and shape Sully and Malik into who they are. And they both continued to shape each other. I had the chills, paced with anxiety, and found myself frozen in place because I was in shock. There were also moments when I found myself in awe and giddy with excitement.

Their journeys are full of darkness and getting to it HEA wasn’t easy. But their love is unmatched & unbreakable.

This was one of those books that I didn’t want to end. I wanted more time with Sully and Malik. As hard as it was to put this book down, I knew I needed to pace myself in order to savor it. And I’m glad I did. As happy as I was for these two, I was sad to let them go.

Harley narrated the hell out of this book!!!
He put his whole heart and soul into it. He brought Courtney’s words to life and then some.

Sully!

Okay, I’ve read the other books in this series, and getting Sally’s story to fill in the blanks was amazing. I love him as a character and Harley did a fantastic job bringing both Sully and Malik to life!

left me in AWE!

OK, hands down, @harleychasemm best narration!!! He absolutely nailed Sully. Sully is a psychopath and Harley's narration of him left me in awe. There were times I had literal chills listening to this. I feel like he poured out his entire heart and soul into making Sully and Malik as authentic as possible. This has solidly cemented Harley as my favorite narrator. If you've read The District series, you HAVE to listen to this - it made an already amazing story just absolutely brilliant!