Chord

By: Chelsea M. Cameron

Narrated by: Sophie Daniels

Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Chase Hillier has plans, and nothing will cause her to deviate from them. So far, they're pretty simple: Get through her first year of college with good grades, read a lot of books, and hopefully find a cute boyfriend who could turn into her husband someday. She's got it all mapped out. No one is going to stand in her way. Not even her roommate, Cordelia Scott.

Cordelia Scott has her own plans: Get through her freshman year without too many panic attacks, figure out what the hell she wants to major in, and meet a guy who finally makes her heart flutter.

Fate has other plans for the two when they end up as roommates and neither of them can stop thinking about the other. They're both absolutely sure that they like boys and not girls. But their sparks can't be extinguished, and they realize there is a lot more to their connection with each other than either of them thought. How will they navigate a path that neither of them planned on taking

Other books and audiobooks by Chelsea M. Cameron:

• Nocturnal (The Noctalis Chronicles, Book One)
• Nightmare (The Noctalis Chronicles, Book Two)
• Neither (The Noctalis Chronicles, Book Three)
• Neverend (The Noctalis Chronicles, Book Four)
• Whisper (The Whisper Trilogy, Book One)
• Deeper We Fall (Fall and Rise, Book One)
• Faster We Burn (Fall and Rise, Book Two)
• Together We Heal
• My Favorite Mistake (Available from Harlequin)
• My Sweetest Escape (Available from Harlequin)
• Our Favorite Days (My Favorite Mistake, Book Three)
• Sweet Surrendering
• Surrendering to Us
• Dark Surrendering
• For Real (Rules of Love, Book One)
• For Now (Rules of Love, Book Two)
• Deep Surrendering
• UnWritten
• Behind Your Back
• Back to Back
• Bend Me, Break Me
• Style
• Brooks (Benson Brothers, Book One)
• Second Kiss (Violet Hill, Book One)
• Double Exposure (Violet Hill, Book Two)
• Second Chance (Violet HIll, Book Three)
  

©2018 Chelsea M. Cameron (P)2018 Chelsea M. Cameron

Great story

I love the story. I listened to this on my free time and it was nice.

Very Sweet Story of Young Love; Terrific Narration

“Chord” is book #2 in “The OTP” series, and is the sequel to “Style”. I wonder what “OTP” stands for…it’s not explained on Audible or Amazon, nor did I find anything explanatory after a brief Google search. Well, I’m going to call it the “Officially Too Perfect” series, because the characters, their friends, their families, the story and the narration are….wait for it….too perfect….officially! ;)

If you’re looking for drama, angst, misunderstandings, homophobia, cheaters, dark pasts, or sinister people….look/listen elsewhere. Chord will immerse you in a wonderful world of likable, kind, loving people at the brink of adulthood, filled with optimism for the future, whatever that may be, and learning about themselves and accepting that they are very different from who they thought they were. This is a very sweet, enjoyable story. If you’ve been reading/listening to Melissa Brayden’s “Seven Shores” series (and who hasn’t?), and you’re anxiously awaiting sweetly optimistic, Disney loving Hadley’s story in the yet unpublished book #4, “Love Like This” (and who isn’t?)…you will really love this book.

First year college students MCs Chase and Cordelia are computer-assigned as roommates. Chase is often anxious around others, and Cordelia too-frequently suffers panic attacks, but they become fast friends and comfort each other. Wow…do they comfort each other (oops…jumping ahead too much!). Their dormitory neighbors are Stella and Kyle, the now girlfriends MCs from “Style”. It was delightful spending more time with Stella and Kyle throughout the book. Their friendships with Chase and Cordelia are integrated very nicely.

Chase and Cordelia make a mutual pact to find boyfriends by the end of the year, but each are frequently confused and flustered by their feelings for each other. By the way, I really liked the author’s dedication at the beginning of the book:

”For all the girls who think they might like girls…this one’s for you”.

The evolution of each girl’s understanding of herself, and of their mutual recognition of their feelings for each other is sweet, and frequently made me smile. Chase, Cordelia and their friends felt real, and I felt happy spending time with them. The story uses alternating POVs, and I really enjoyed being inside each of their heads, hearing what each of them thought, as they thought of themselves and of each other.

I’ve just deleted a few more comments, because I’m going to end this as a relatively short review; anything more I would say would end up as spoilers, and I want you to enjoy the journey for Chase and Cordelia as the fresh story of young love, and young lust, that it is. Tenderness and communication abounds, which I really enjoyed in this New Adult storyline.

As with “Style”, “Chord” ends with an HFN rather than an HEA…which I found completely acceptable, given that Chase and Cordelia are only 19yo. Narrator Sophie Daniels did a fantastic job, as she did for “Style”. By the way (ok, I guess this is a bit of a spoiler….but it’s minor), it turns out that I was wrong in assuming “Style” derived it’s title from Stella and Kyle meeting in their high school english class: STella, kYLE…sort of like CHase, cORDelia…so cute!! Now I want to go bowling, even with the stinky shoes….ooops….no more spoilers!

Get this terrific audiobook….highly recommended with 5*

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Excellent Follow-up

Chord is an excellent follow up to Style; indeed Stella and Kyle are featured prominently in this book. Chase and Cordelia are college freshmen who by luck of the draw end up as roommates. Neither of the girls are all that thrilled in the beginning but they soon bond and before long both of them are dealing with feelings they're not familiar with. Chase plans their first date and it is epic; the stuff of romantic novels and movies. I don't want to give away too many spoilers in this review , but their coming out to their parents is the kind that LGBT kids dream of. This is a supersweet story, a great followup to a great book.

Loved it!

Great narrator. Great story. Great writing. What more can you ask for? Great job Chelsea and Sophie!

Fantastic sequel.

This book and its predecessor was a couple of the cutest f/f romance books I’ve come across in all of Audible. I’ve read tons. There’s absolutely no drama, just a random cute love story with a bunch of swear words and a bunch of aww moments and a few sexy moments. I don’t need drama to love a book. These are the perfect books for a young questioning Queer kiddo to read and fe better about the scary road ahead. So what if it’s possibly too good to be true. My coming out story was similar, complete support, no drama. I was just missing the love interest at the time. Doing it alone sucked but it’s possible to get a good outcome!

CHase and cORDelia

I have not read Style, so I read this without any real expectations. It's purely fluff, so as long as that's what you're expecting, it's great! The side characters don't do much except offer help/advice to the main characters along the way. As an asexual, I smiled when the author introduced one of the side characters as ace as well. Every chapter starts with chase's perspective, then switches over to cordelia's perspective. I prefer chase's perspective since I'm always anxious and feel the need to plan as well. What I liked best is how the story started off having the feelings but not having a word to describe them. I feel that all the time, when you desire to be close to someone but can't explain it. Oh, and I totally dig bedtime stories. Given the names Cordelia / Chase, I thought we might get a buffy the vampire slayer reference. I kept waiting for a reference to willow, but after reading the story, it's just a coincidence.

The girls are nervous and unsure of themselves for a good chunk of the story, and Sophie did a great job making me feel it. Chase starts off worried about college, and Sophie sounds like an antsy teen. There was one spot early on where I mixed up who was talking, but I think that was more me than the narrator. For reference, chase has the deeper voice.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Error 404: Drama not found!

Feel good fluff, surprising amount of 18+ scenes for a coming of age story (doesn't feel too forced or inappropriate). Nice and refreshing with very decent voiceover. Good story if you don't feel like adulting for awhile.

A Love Story For The Gays

Honestly, I wanted a light read and wasn't expecting a whole lot. This story surprised me with the depth it gave. The inclusiveness was also refreshing. I cheered on our baby gays, laughed as I recalled similar moments/feelings myself, and really appreciated that this book was put into the world. There needs to be more, and this was a great addition. If you had a good coming out, then this will be nostalgic. If you didn't, then this is the story you deserve. The story was well told, and the narrator did a great job! She was able to bring warmth to these characters and I enjoyed the listen. If you need some major fluff with a dash angst, give this one a listen.

Absolutely loved it!

What a lovely story about discovering who you are and coming out not only to yourself but to everyone else. Sophie Daniels does a fantastic job with the narration of the characters. Especially with this being from two different first person perspectives. And bonus we get to hear how Stella and Kyle from Style are doing in college!

Loving and streaming

It was so much love and support in this book. Love how this book add in Questioning as there are people still figuring out who they are. I just want to thank you for writing this book it was great listening to it. Cannot wait to get the book itself.