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Fighting Love, Book 2

By: Nikki Ash

Narrated by: Gideon Frost, Marina Barrett

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Tristan

Charlie is everything I want and didn’t realize I need.
It’s clear to me now, the woman I met at the club is only one layer of the woman I’m falling for.
I’m a fixer by nature, but for the first time, I wouldn't fix a thing.
I want her just the way she is.
Broken pieces and all.
Who needs the fairy tale, when we can have the reality.

Charlie

Tristan is everything I want, yet don't deserve.
He’s loving, protective, smart, an amazing father, and he’s onto me.
That's why I need to speed this story up and tell him everything.
So we can flip to the end of the book, and he and his daughter can move on to the next story.
One where they get a happily-ever-after.
Because there’s no story I’m a part of that ends in any way but tragedy.

©2018 Nikki Ash (P)2024 Pink Flamingo Productions

SO FUN

This one will pull at your heartstrings from the get-go … or it’ll anger, or both. The female lead is so incredibly broken, but doing her best and so strong (though she doesn’t think so). And of course he’s patient and perfect … well, nearly.

Broken heroine.
Male lead who has been burned a time or 2—leads to misunderstandings.
Inexperienced female lead with …
… a very dark past.
Mystery.
F!ghting of course.
Fresh start vibes.
Found family.
Major scandal.

I did predict every little step of this read from the first chapter—however that made it no less fun. I recommend this book and all the others in this world. Can’t wait to read on in the series.

4 stars.

🎧 Audio:
Great! Excellent narrators, perfect performances and overall: high quality. 🦩

Beautiful Story & Listen🎧SwoonWorthy & Heartfelt!

Nikki Ash pens another winning romance novel set in her “Fighting Love” series and wow, not only did it captivate my attention for the entire book, but it tugged at my heartstrings, too. The characters in this book, and series, are realistic, easy to relate to and connect with and after meeting Tristan, who quickly became one of my favorite characters in the series, I was looking forward to his story and happily ever after. I am equally excited about Mason’s story, Tristan’s best friend and sidekick. Tristan had not had the best of luck in the love department, first he fell in love with Bella, who did not have the same affection and only saw him as a good friend. Then he gets involved with Gina, who loved her drugs more than him, but she gave him the love of her life, his daughter, Lexi. Charlie’s husband was abusive towards her and a cheat and she knew she had to get out of the marriage, especially when he aimed his anger at their daughter. She knew it would not be easy to leave him, so she needed to plan her escape carefully. Before she can get away, the unthinkable happens, and she loses everything, including her daughter. Heartbroken, she finally makes her escape, but she needed to stay off the radar so he could not track her down. She gets a job working in a strip club and that is where she first meets Tristan, who makes assumptions about her, ones she does not correct. Tristan knows he screwed up, and he gets to apologize when they run into each other again when he was with Lexi, who is absolutely adorable, and helps get Charlie out of her funk for a few minutes, Though she being reminded of what she lost, her and Lexi instantly click and bond over their love of art. It was great to watch Tristan and Charlie get to know each other, and I thought they were great together and for each other, Lexi included. Their story is a beautiful love story, a multi-layered story that has the perfect balance of drama, angst, charming moments, heartfelt emotions, and steamy romance. As always, the writing, plot and world building are fantastic, as are the character growth and development. I loved the twists and how it all played out, well done, very well done. Nikki Ash, thank you for another amazing story and emotional rollercoaster ride.

🎧📚🎧 Gideon Frost and Marina Barrett did a superb job bringing these characters to life, understanding who they were portraying, giving each a voice that was fitting and was believable in every role they played. Frost’s Tristan was spot on, smooth worthy and all, Barrett was just as amazing in her role as Charlie, both grasping all aspects of their characters’ personalty and their every emotion. They were great performing the roles of the secondary characters too, including Lexi, with an adorable and youthful voice. You could hear how much heart they put into their performance as they captured all the characters’ emotions and had you feeling them all. These two are entertaining storytellers and their performance elevates this already amazing story to another level. Thank you for another fabulous listen.   

Original Nikki Ash

This is one of this authors first series that I fell in love with. I found this author during covid quarantine and devoured all I could find from her. So I read this book a couple years ago, but now there's audio and I love audio. Both narrators did a fabulous job and the plot twist was chefs kiss. I highly recommend this one and it's totally worthy of a credit. Tropes include - single parent, death of a child, spouse abuse. #Audiobookobsession #pinkflamingoproductions

Great read

Such a sweet book. I love how they meet and their chemistry was great. Nothing narrators did an amazing job at narrating

Found family

Oh I was so excited for Tristian’s story and it sure did not disappoint! I loved this story and the little found family! Also loved the twist towards the end! So good and narration was awesome as always!

Heartbreaking, but Wonderful

5/5 ⭐
2/5 🌶️
5/5 🎧

I'm absolutely loving this series. These characters are so beautifully broken and they have my whole heart. I fell hard for Tristan in Bella's book, he was so sweet and perfect and while I knew Marco was meant for Bella, I was still so sad for Tristan...

Enter Charlie. After Tristan was done being a judgemental donkey *side eye* he fell so hard for Charlie. We knew she had something dark going on, but I don't think I began to grasp how bad it was for a while... Even when we got the whole truth I was stunned. I had two theories and one was correct, but my jaw still dropped. What an amazing twist and such a great story.

The audio was so good. I love Gideon Frost and Marina Barrett was fantastic as well.

Outstanding Story and characters!

I REALLY liked this one! The story flows so well and the writing brings the emotions out of the listener. The characters are a few we met in book 1 of the series and there are also new ones. Charlie is amazing and has quite a backstory! Tristan is a great dad..better than I thought he would be after seeing him in book 1. Both together make for an outstanding story. This one is fun, crazy and emotional! It does have a little surprise near the end that shocked me.

Gideon Frost and Marina Barrett were excellent choices as narrators. They both encompassed their characters and I loved listening to them both.

I look forward to the next and I cant wait for Mila and Mason!