Run Away With Me: A BWWM Small Town Romance

Greyson Brothers

De: Amerie Summers

Narrado por: Nia Fallz

Calvin:

I’m out searching for my drunk of a dad in the middle of the night. The last thing I expect to find is a hot stranger on my property with a broken-down car. Raelynn promises to be out of my hair by morning. I hate drama and drama is Raelynn’s middle name. So why am I so desperate to keep her by my side?

The more she tries to run from us, the more I want to chase after her.

I should let her go. Raelynn is beautiful and kind. I am damaged. Far too ruined to give her what she needs.

And yet I want to run away with her.

Raelynn:

Calvin Greyson is so handsome it hurts. And far too charming for his own good. When I run away from my violent ex-fiancé, Calvin comes to my aid. I am determined to get out of his hair as quickly as possible. Calvin hates drama and with an ex hounding at my heels, I have nothing but drama. Running away from my problems is nothing new. It is my specialty. But when Calvin offers me a place to stay, my heart wants to run away from me.

Can I really take a chance and run away with this cowboy?

My heart says yes.

But my mind says run.

©2023 Amerie Summers (P)2025 Amerie Summers

Small town romance

Run Away With Me by Amerie Summers is a great small town romance. Nia Fallz did a great job with the narration. The story is entertaining, enjoyable, romantic, heartfelt, sweet, wholesome, and more. Run Away With Me is part of Greyson Brothers series.

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Calvin and Raelynn

I love the story and the characters. Very good learning experience between the characters. Especially Raelynn. She had to learn to stand up for herself with her adopted parents.

Not the Worst, But Not the Best

Raelynn isn't your average African American woman from a rich family. Her family however, are typical stuck up snobs. Getting over the wounds of being adopted and not really being accepted once her parents have a child of their own are difficult enough. Being persuaded to marry into another rich family is taking it a step too far. As she flees to put distance between herself and the situation, Raelynn finds herself stranded at night on a back road in the middle of nowhere.

Calvin in the midst of his own family crisis is out looking for his missing father only to find the Raelynn instead. Giving her shelter in his rundown but cozy home is the least he can do.

With seemingly little in common at surface value, there is an natural distrust of letting the other one into the can of worms each one faces. They seem like an unlikely pair to become a couple with so much family baggage to get over.

The story progresses well enough. I'm still mystified at where the cowboy label in the book overview comes from. Calvin is a farmer, mainly with the mention of pigs but no horses to my recollection.

I'm not sure if was the narrator, the way the book was written or a combination of the two, but it was difficult at times following just whom was talking or pov was being presented. While there was emotional inflection reacting to what was happening or being spoken, there was absolutely no differentiation in her voice to denote between characters. Not even an attempt to was made to change her voice for female or male characters. One of my pet peeves, with Virtual Voice narration is this very issue of no change between characters' voices, but it more annoying when actual narrators don't elevate to the next level in their recitation. There is mistaking the good,'ole Southern African-American woman twang by the narrator. The writing was a bit on the bland side with the lack variety in words especially when it came to dialogue. Please find other words to replace said: responded, replied, exclaimed, retorted, huffed, yelled, whispered, speaking in a fill in the blank manner. That would have annoyed me just as much reading said so often as it did hearing it.

Definitely there is room for improvement on both the writing and the narration.

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A Sweet Romance

Run Away With Me has a heartfelt small-town romance at its core, and the chemistry between Calvin and Raelynn is easy to root for. I loved the protective cowboy energy and Raelynn’s strength as she tries to escape her past. That said, the audiobook experience was uneven. At times, it was confusing to track where the characters were in the timeline or setting, which pulled me out of the story. While the narrator’s voice is pleasant, some expressions and abrupt breaks in the narration felt distracting and occasionally disrupted the emotional flow. Overall, it’s a story with real potential that could shine more with tighter audio execution.

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Not Perfect, But Still Worth the Time

This was a good story overall, and I did enjoy it. That said, I’ll admit I found myself getting a little lost here and there and drifting out of the plot at times. I honestly can’t tell if that was just me not fully paying attention, or if the story itself wandered a bit in places. The narration was energetic, but it felt a little “too much” for me and didn’t quite match the age or tone of the characters, in my opinion. Still, it was a solid listen with enough going on to keep it interesting.