Can't Help Falling

A Novel

By: Cara Bastone

Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell

Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

The more you resist,

the deeper you’ll fall

Serafine St. Romain doesn’t need her psychic powers to know she’s no longer in Tyler Leshuski’s good graces. True, she did tear him to pieces when he asked her out, accusing him of being shallow and selfish. Despite the energy crackling between them, the gorgeous sports writer is a no-strings, no-kids kind of guy. And Serafine, raised in the foster system, intends to be a foster parent herself. She won’t compromise that dream, even for a man as annoyingly appealing as Tyler.

In a simpler world, Tyler would already have gotten Serafine out of his system. For him, women equal fun. Not this kind of bone-deep, disconcerting desire. Life gets even more complicated when he becomes the guardian of his much younger sister. Suddenly, he’s way out of his depth. Serafine’s the only person who can connect with Kylie. He can’t jeopardize that for a fling.

But maybe...just maybe...he’s finally ready to risk everything on forever.

©2020 Cara Bastone (P)2020 Harlequin Audio

Love the story, the narrator not so much!!!

The narrator male voice is great and he should stick to that! He makes the kid and the woman’s voices sound so bad! Just ruined the story, I’m sorry but he voice is great as a man!! Perfect as long as he sticks to it!

Performance

The story was WONDERFUL & DELIGHTFUL. The narration was awful and ruined the great story a bit.

Narration is almost insurmountable

Loved the story, but the narration was horrid. The voices of the characters sounded like horrible stereotypes of various accents. I powered through but would have enjoyed this book far more as a non-audible book. Please, never ever have this narrator do accents or feminine voices again.

Terrible narration, great story

The male narrator attempting to female voices was painful. It sounded like when someone puts on a voice to mock a woman on a sitcom. And the main female protagonist is supposed to have a thick Cajun accent that he picks up and drops throughout. His Brooklyn accent is such an insane stereotype that it made the main male protagonist sound like a moronic Sopranos extra. The worst were the kids’ voices, though. No matter what the dialogue was he made them sound like complete whiners.

I think if I had it to do over again I would have bought the physical copy of this book because it’s actually a lovely, different kind of story, and I had grown to love all of the characters from the first book - a great narration - that I just immediately bought the rest of the trilogy without reading the reviews. Such a shame.

Hmmm…

The narration ruined the story. Too much Brooklyn accent for the males. They sounded like uneducated hoodlums. And with the exception of Fin the female voices were all very child like. Via and Mary sounded like they were 5 years old. I mistakenly read this series out of order. Book one and book three had great narration this one not so much. I’m tempted to ask for a refund.

A good listen overall

I agree with other reviews that the narrator does not do well with the voices of women and children. He went too strong on accents, BUT the the two main characters are good. The emotion the narrator portrays at the end is excellent. All prior annoyances are forgiven by the end of the book. It’s a sweet story.

Why change narrators!!

First of all, the story is good. I always enjoy Cara Bastone books. But in the first book we have already gotten to know all of the characters pretty well. They felt like friends. Then the second book with a whole new narrator, completely shreds that. Why? If the characters are the same then the narrator should also stay the same. It took me a long while to get used to these “new” character voices. It was pretty jarring at first though especially since it felt like Wayne was yelling at me the whole first half of the book.

Oof - The Narrator

I read the reviews for the first book and since some of the reviews described the sex scenes as raunchy when I truly thought it was done classily and just normal sex between two people who waited a long time before they 'did it' - I decided to take a chance on ignoring all of the reviews on this narrator. Buuuut they were right. Regardless of what borough or city they are supposed to come from ... who SOUNDS like these characters in real life? Sounds like the narrator really doesn't like women or children if this is how he thinks they sound.

Never again, Wayne!

Awful narration! I was on a road trip and went straight from book one to this horrid piece of narration. 10 grueling hours! I just couldn’t take it anymore after 5 hours. Rarely will I ask for a refund but it’s a must on this one.

voice from narrator

His voice was spot on for the mature men but hard to swallow for the females and children. If you can look past that its a sweet romance.