A Lethal Love

Stonewall Investigations, Book 2

By: Max Walker

Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's Summary

Alejandro Santos is a sharp-as-nails detective who's been struck with a spell of boring cases. He's left unstimulated and unhappy. That is, until Griffin walks in through the doors of Stonewall Investigations and suddenly, everything changes.   

Griffin Banks is the son of a tech mogul and from the outside in, appears to have everything set. But Griffin's battling intense demons of his own. Things get exponentially worse when he wakes up from a drug and alcohol-fueled blackout to find his friend in his living room. His dead friend. Someone murdered her and left him behind.  

Griffin's case is exactly what Alejandro was looking for, and Alejandro happened to be exactly who Griffin was looking for. When powerful sparks begin to fly between the two, both men will be faced with new challenges. They'll be tested in ways neither would have ever seen coming. Griffin and Alejandro will need to navigate a winding, treacherous road on their journey to finding happiness together.  

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Max Walker (P)2018 Tantor

Ok

I liked book 1 better. This, A Lethal Love (bk 2), wasn’t bad, the romance was just melodramatic and simple. The relationship between Griffin & Alejandro was too magic-ish. Then the timing of the mystery investigation was glacial to accommodate Griff’s health timeline. There are glimpses of other known characters & the big bad unicorn mystery keeps running in the background, badly timed to mess with our protags’ better days. Being a murder mystery, there’s some blood & danger but even so, it’s mostly happy once the romance starts to bloom. Still, it’s more up than down so it works as a feel good story.

Mystery: the elements worked out ok, but the timing seemed wrong. I have no idea how long regular investigations take but it sounded like A was *only* working on G’s… for *months* with no headway. Maybe I missed a line mentioning secondary (boring) cases also still happening?

Steam: Med. Playful & loving M/M sexytimes, sometimes. Not as much page time as in book 1.

Narration: The accent worked better for Alejandro than Enzo. It was interesting to hear several words pronounced with spanish vowels (like /mus-EH-um/ for /mus-EE-um/). Griffin got a little whiny but overall it was fine.

great story, well read

a very engaging story with lots of great sexual tension. a fun read from beginning to end. good character development, good sex, and a good mystery. I highly recommend.

Great book.

I loved the first one, so I had to read more of the story. I loved them both.

A beautiful follow up

Loved the whole thing and the seamless transition between the first book and this one.

Alex and Griffin together are adorable and HOT. 🥵 highly recommend 10/10.

enjoyed it

📖 Story comment: Good pace, likeable characters, nice flow.
Pros: Enjoyed it, felt like there was more s*xy time than actual storyline though. I did like the building relationship between Griffin & Alex (Alejandro).
Cons: Felt like we lost huge chunks of the time line which works well for the Griffin/Alex story, but not sure how it's going to affect the underlying "Unicorn" storyline. I also have some weird pet-peeves. I know these characters are fictional, but disrespecting the workplace is a big no-no for me. An employee getting off / performing self pleasure in their office during business hours doesn't say much about the person's integrity.

🎧 Narrator comment: Greg Boudreaux can do no wrong (in my opinion). He suits the characters, has good cadence, inflections and intonations and it's easy to distinguish the characters from each other. Overall an enjoyable performance and he bought the story to life.

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📌 Where does it fall on my personal scale? 6.5
• 1 not my thing • 2 didn't like the narration • 3 didn't keep my attention • 4 was good, but once was enough • 5 enjoyed it • 6 will listen again if i'm in the mood for the narrator • 7 goes on the "re-listen" list [4⭐] • 8 kept me up past bed-time [4.5⭐] • 9 recommended to family/friends [4.75⭐] • 10 own it in all formats [5⭐] • 11 keep a copy with me at all times [5⭐]
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great book

I wanted more of the mystery and crime and less of the love and sex making.

A Lethal Love

Omg this audio book was absolutely positively amazing. I would highly recommend this audio book.

Please! No more passion!

An actual story would be nice. Instead, it’s hours and hours of mindless cliche syrup.
A few hours in, I envied the murder victim

Unfortunately, I can’t give less than one star for the story

A Lethal Love

It was a little hard to like Griffin but he got better. The murder mystery was a little less a part of this book than I prefer. The narrator was great!

A great continuation

Book 2 was almost as good as 1, allll most. Narration was really good, accent!

Brillaint

I loved Alejandro and Griffins book.. Now Its time to move on to the third I'm pretty sure I will love that one as well.
The storyline was well written.