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Mississippi Smoke Series, Book 1

De: Abbi Glines

Narrado por: Lucas Dixon, Amy Hall

Calculating, cold, often without emotion, was how I was described by those closest to me.

I had thought perhaps there was truth to their depiction until this endless searing pain took the place in my chest where my heart used to be. Vengeance now ate away at my soul. The wrath I planned to unleash would make the demons in Hell appear mild.

At least, that was until…

The twisted crux came in the form of eyes bluer than the sky on a warm summer day, a slightly upturned nose with a scattering of freckles, a pink cupid bow mouth, and a smile that made a man's knees weak.

The events that brought us here meant I should loathe her existence for eternity, yet my need for her grows with each passing day. She's too young, she's vulnerable and broken, but somehow, she's not damaged. She was the cause of what had left me with this raging agony, and yet, the balm that eased my soul. Still, I can never forgive the destruction she caused me and those I love.

I had become a mockery of my revenge because holding her at night while she slept was the only thing keeping me sane. She'll pay the price through my cruelty, never knowing that while she dreams, I find my solace.

My story begins with my worst nightmare.

And she's the reason behind all of it.

Narrated in duet style.

©2025 Abbi Glines (P)2025 Podium Audio

Love it

Love this entire story! Tge characters were so exciting and flawed! Picking up pieces of one’s life when there is barely a reason u til there is a lesson learned!

wonderful story

story was well written and like all Abbi books you'll get sucked right in. I just couldn't stand the female narrator she was awful , every time she said Than it sounded like Van so irritating.

Worth it

It started slow, but once the story clicks you will be hooked. Such a great listen.

The Beginning of The Mississippi Branch!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶
Narrating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧.5

Such a different twist to this Mafia series Abbi Glines writes. I didn't know where this story was going at the beginning. When you read the family tree, then the first chapter, you'll see why I was confused. This story isn't like normal. It will leave you heartbroken after the first chapter. So get ready for that. Plus, you get a new branch in this Southern Mafia. We're going to Mississippi now. The head of this branch is Levi's dad, Linc, and we get to see him throughout this book.

Tropes:
- Southern Mafia Romance
- Cowboy
- Surprise Pregnancy
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Bad Boy/Good Girl
- Found Family
- Somnophilia
- Dead Brother's Pregnant Girl
- Revenge
- Forbidden Love
- Forced Proximity

The narrators did such a great job. I have listened to a Amy Hall narrate before and her voice has a great tone to it. The parts that she puts emotions into, such as the spice, she does very nicely and real sounding. It's like she is acting those parts out through the pages.
This is the first book I've listened to narrated by Lucas Dixon. He has a deep and raspy sounding voice. He does sound somewhat older than a 20 something year does. There were parts were he did amazing sounding out or acting out passionate like it certain words. I do believe this was a duet narration, but at certain parts it was him reading the female lines in a feminine voice. Other times it was Any Hall reading them and visa versa for her chapter. Lucas also made all the other male characters sound like weasly little wise guys, lol. That's the only way I know how to describe it. Not at all what I pictured the southern mafia guys sounding like.
I also know that the 2 narrators are doing Salem's book which is the next one in this series. That makes me believe they might just be narrating the whole series then which I don't normally like because I like variation. But it may give them a better chance at correcting this little mistakes throughout this book the were done.

This book had me feeling so many different emotions. First, it was confusion, then heartbreak. That led to anger and more sadness. Then I felt like this girl, Halo, was being wronged on so many levels. So many wrong things happened to this girl in this book that I was outraged. Even the spicy times that were hot, they all felt wrong on her behalf.

I also felt like something else should have happened, especially with Saylor in this book. Like, she should have done something wrong to Halo, or they should have at least met. With all that, she was mentioned, but that's the beauty in Abbi's stories. Saylor may be another book in the future.

This book also wasn't as spicy as Abbi's books normally are. Yes, in the sense of the things that were happening to Halo and Bane while she was asleep. But once they actually came together, you only got 1 time with them. There were a lot of angst between the two, but Bane really was an a-hole towards her. The outrage in how he treated her when she was awake. I swear these men in her book are stubborn, lol.

LOVED IT

Honestly this is the first time to listen but I've reread at 3 times I loved Bane and halo and cant wait for the next audios in this series