Tentacles & Triathlons

Leviathan Fitness, Book 2

De: Ashley Bennett

Narrado por: Jack Calihan, Liam Price

Leviathan Fitness is the favorite place of monsters, muscles, and a tentacled creature who can seduce even the hardest-to-win-over human.

When parks department supervisor Reece Rollins decides to sign up for a triathlon, there are two things holding him back. One, his fear of monsters. Two, his sub-par swimming skills.

At the urging of his sister's wolven mate, Reece joins Leviathan Fitness to train in the gym's Olympic-size swimming pool. After running into Reece at the pool, Cyrus offers to help Reece get ready to win the race.

New feelings arise from the depths as Reece and Cyrus learn that monsters and humans go together, tentacle in hand. The only question is, can these two hold on to their newfound love despite their differences?

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Ashley Bennett Author (P)2023 Tantor

So Much Improvement!

Oh, my, gosh, this book was so good! I'm am extremely impressed with Ashley's improved writing. I was a little scared to continue with this series after the first book (cringe city), but I'm so glad I stuck with it as Ashley has improved her characters immensely. I loved to see how Reece slowly progressed throughout this book and Cyrus is my new favorite character, he was so understanding and gentlemanly, and cute! And don't even get me started on how well the voice actors did, music to my ears those voices were. I can't wait to see what else the Ashley Bennett factory will churn out! Enjoy another day of reading, A.

Loved it!!!

I will love anything Liam Price narrates, and now I’ll have to look Jack up! They did perfect bringing these characters to life.

So fricken cute

I loved this. A beautiful slice of life with lovely characters and delightful spicy scenes. Ashley Bennett is quickly becoming a favorite author.

such a cute story

love it. read it first. love the narrators and the emotion was so cute.

Very cute

This book would have been wayyyy better if it was another 100 pages or so. I wanted more details. It went pretty fast in my opinion. But I still loved it.

Stunning

It was gods but I didn’t make the choice the voice for plehan otherwise it’s good most part

Love this series

I have read all the books in this series so far and love them all. I've made it a goal to support authors and voice actors and get the audiobooks when they come out because books like this give me joy regardless of if I'm reading or listening.

This book is about overcoming fear and bias. It a short romance, but has a lot of heart and of course steamy scenes. It also has a the full cast of characters popping up from the previous book so it was nice to see their stories progressing as well.

My only criticism here is of the narrators - one wasn't good at British accents and the other wasn't good at American accents. it was almost comical the first few times as they both tried putting on voices that were just a stretch too far for them. it wasn't enough to ruin it or be overly distracting, I just found it more amusing than anything else that neither narrator could keep it straight when they had to do the other accent.

Character development

I loved this book! I love the story. I loved listening to how the characters change and grow. this book is funny and flirty and fantastic. It's the tentacles 😊

Loved it! These two are endgame 😍

I went from book 1 right into book 2 and was so happy to see it was M/M and Tegan’s monster-phobic brother was the one who got his story this time! I love M/M so I was interested to see how this would go with a water creature and a man and boy the author did not disappoint! The warming part IYKYK....so hot!!

I loved Cyrus and he being a kraken was so refreshing because that creature is not in a lot of books as a love interest, usually if they are included they are a villain/creature to take out. I loved his tentacles and how they had different purposes. I appreciated he wasnt embarrassed, I mean when you are that old he has seen enough and knows not to be ashamed of himself (except we see a little bit with his paintings). I loved the steamy scenes as much as the cute, adorable, and swoonworthy scenes. I did wish the author went a little further with Reece’s kink and Cyrus as a Daddy because of how he took care of his man. I love Daddy kinks in M/M so that made me smile (again just wished we got another steamy scene with that being played up more). I wished Cyrus had bought Reece some more items for his sexy collection and made him model them for him. Again those are my only critique because I enjoyed this love story so much!

I actually enjoyed the training and painting part of the story too. I liked that we didnt have a 3rd act breakup because I would have been so sad for Cyrus being rejected by his mate and maybe dying. I loved the painting and how he changed one at the end, so cute and love the mushiness. The triathlon training was funny with how Cyrus became a drill master. I did like that Reece finally told Cyrus about his dad so the helped fix some miscommunication going on. The actually was so funny and amazing. I won’t give it away but the shirts haha. Also loved what Reece did at the end....so good 🥵🤤.

I felt this story wasnt as rushed, we got to see their friendship grow into something more. They didnt rush into things, it developed until Reece couldn’t take it anymore haha. I liked that Cyrus never rushed Reece, he went at his own pace. I liked the different kinks/steamy scenes that weren’t repetitive. And the narration was good in this one too! I think for me the only hang-up was sometimes Cyrus’ accent was off (when it wasnt his normal narrator talking) or Reece somehow got an accent when he didnt before. I would give the story for this 5 stars easily and 4 stars for the narration. Overall I made it 5 because I smiled so much and liked the little twists we got from the author. This is a feel good read, just like book one and I cannot wait for the rest to come out on audio!!!

I’ll be thinking about that locker room everyday now

Holy crap. HOT! Reese is scared of monsters ever since his camping trip as a boy, so what happens when you sister is engaged to one AND now your training for a triathlon with one of his friends?! Who happens to be a rare kraken monster. Cyrus is a sweet painter who’s even around for a long time. Hes lost his mojo that is until he meets his mate! Hot MM monster romance with tentacles