All for This

Here and Now, Book 3

By: Lexi Ryan

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Piper Goodeve, Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life? That's what they're telling me about the day of my accident - the day I put on Max's ring and chose him over Nate. I'm counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don't remember making. Max is amazing - sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I'm going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident. But what does my future hold if those answers aren't anything like I imagined?

©2014 Lexi Ryan (P)2014 Lexi Ryan

Donna's Review

i loved this series i hope there is a book 4. i want to know if Hanna and Nate get married and what happens to Max and Meredith

I want to forget this story just so I can listen

To it all over again admittedly there where several parts that frustrated me causing me not to like Hanna, but I love the story telling. Now I'm stuck waiting for more by this author.

Glad for the decision but hoping for one more book

I love that Hanna chose Nate, but now I want the book to find out how they start.

Awesome!!!

What made the experience of listening to All for This the most enjoyable?

Listened to all three books, couldn't stop. By the third the story started to drag on but I couldn't stop listening. Kept the suspense until the end.

Perfect Ending for Hanna

Here and Now is an interesting title for Hanna’s story because, for the most part, she’s not living in the present. She’s stuck recalling information that hurts her and redefines her life in many ways. Hanna is not the same person since the accident; from my perspective, there’s a clear distinction between the pre-accident Hanna and the post accident Hanna, but she doesn’t seem to realize that because she’s dealing with information overload. She has two men, who are diverse in most ways except for how they feel about her, vying for her affection. Her mind is a jumbled mess, but I always felt like her heart made the choice for her so long ago; she just needed her mind to catch up with it. The love triangle that exists between Hanna, Max, and Nate is atypical, in a way, because it seems like the dilemma stems from who Hanna truly wants versus who everyone else wants for her. All of her life, Hanna has always let others influence and dictate her life, which has only resulted in an extremely poor sense of self and a life not truly lived. By the end of All For This, Hanna asks for what she wants and needs and knows, in her heart, that that’s what she should have chosen since the very beginning.

As Hanna's personal life gets more and more complicated, the three narrators allow listeners to understand what's at stake for all of them. Hanna's, Max's, and Nate's emotions are made clear through the varying intonations that the narrators use, which added to my appreciation of the text as a whole.

All For This is the perfect ending to Hanna’s story because as Hanna's memories return and others help to fill in the blanks, everything becomes clear for both Hanna and the listeners/readers, which is exactly the resolution readers are looking for in the final book of a series. I loved the Here and Now series, and I can’t wait to see what Lexi Ryan gives listeners/readers next.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

5 poison apples (The Fairest of All Book Reviews)

great story. little cheesy ending

story ending was a little to cheesy especially being narrated by Nate.. he was awful.. way over the top .. he ruined the nate character for me

Hard to follow when listening

While I really liked this story, it was hard to follow for me when I was listening to it... way too much flipping back and forth between timeframes. I found myself lost a couple of times! I’m sure if I’d been actually reading vs listening that I might not of had this issue!

Trilogy

I couldn’t stop listening. I had to finish this trilogy. Love the twists and turns. Kept me in my toes.

Great story

I love Lexi Ryan and this was a great trilogy. There were a lot of different emotional elements to the story that kept me captivated. Lexi has a way of making the intimate scenes sexy but also tasteful. It’s not cringey like some smut I’ve read. On audible, the performance for Nate’s character in book 2 and 3 was tough to listen to. He’s a little too dramatic, breathy, and over-annunciates. It kinda killed the character for me and I found myself getting annoyed when that performer was narrating. I may read the stories on my own just so I can interpret Nate in my own mind. The other two performers were wonderful.

this one finishes the trilogy

the series was very good. I loved the first two books and couldn't wait to find out what happened in the end. only this book got a little less interesting and is very short in story line. but still loved the story. I do believe it could of been put into 2 books instead of making us spend more money for such a small amount of story, although I guess we have to spend the extra money or get no conclusion.