Fractured Love

Adrenaline, Book 5

By: Callie Bardot

Narrated by: Jonathan Tratar

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

From the Amazon best-selling Adrenaline series, comes the final book in this rock and roll suspense adventure.

Rock star Trevor “Heat” West has a burning secret. His former best friend - the guy he’s still in love with - thinks he’s gay. Given Heat’s upbringing at a military academy with his dad as the dean, it’s a secret he simply can’t afford to accept. He’d just as soon drink battery acid for breakfast.

But then he meets Jamal, a statuesque guy who plays the piano like nobody else and sings like a hot fantasy.

Heat despises Jamal. Jamal reminds him of everything he’d like to forget and wounds too painful to face. But his attraction to the keyboardist proves too compelling to resist.

As they go on tour together, all of Heat’s inner walls begin to crumble. Then he finds Jamal carries secrets greater than his own. And, as his heart begins to give way to self-acceptance, he learns Jamal’s secrets might cost him his life.

A M/M romance novel.

The Adrenaline Series (best heard in order but each book is a stand-alone):

• Crazy Love, Book 1
• A Twist of Love, Book 2
• Sugar Love, Book 3
• The Key to Love, Book 4
• Fracture Love, Book 5

©2020 Callie Bardot (P)2020 Callie Bardot

Love this story!

The pain and torment is evident with this one. After a lifetime of fighting his natural feelings, Trevor finally gets the chance to be himself. With the help of Gia and Jamal, he’s getting sober and falling in True love for the first time. Jamal has his heart, but can they keep each other alive long enough to enjoy their love? The narrator did an excellent job with these characters. He really brought them to life!

Heat and Jamal - finding their way

This is the fifth book in the Adrenaline series and it is tied as my favorite. It can be heard as a standalone but I recommend listening to the entire series to see how this character has developed and changed. This is Heat’s, aka Trevor’s, story and it is one of self-discovery and learning to live authentically. Heat grew up in a military family and was expected to act a certain way. As he gets older and playing bass in the band, affords him the opportunity to suppress his feelings by drinking while he struggles with his sexuality. Jamal is the new keyboardist brought into the band to replace Keys, Heat’s best friend, and he is everything that Heat needs. Will these two find their way together? Overall, this is one emotional storyline that vibrantly illustrates what Heat and Jamal go through with all of the ups and downs of a relationship. The narrator, Jonathan Tratar, does an exceptional job bringing life to these characters with this final audiobook.

loved this book and....

Normally I don't go for books with M/M but this book was so well done and I couldn't say No to trying it. So I gave it a try. This book didn't disappoint! Callie is sooo good in her writing and I love Johnathan in his Narrating.

no real female impact to the narration

For me there is something really special about a same sex romance. There are levels of intimacy that are not achieved with male/female relationships. Trevor (Heat) finds that he has been hiding his true self for way too long. When those soul deep feelings hit him hard and with no real outlet. He finds that he just can't face them. Jamal opposite of Trevor in so many ways. And at the same time have some commonality. Their differences bring light into a relationship that have so much to lose. You will have to experience all the ins and outs yourself. I suggest that you start with book one and work your way to this one. The journey will be well worth the listen. You will get to see how the characters, of Marked Loved groug, evolve and grow to something more than their story alone presents them to be.

Jonathan Tratar is back on this fifth and final installment. I have gotten use to some of his character voice over the three books that he has narrated for this series. I think what I loved most about this narration from him was that there were no real impacts of the feminine voices. there were some but not enough for me to have to completed focus on it being a priority focal point.

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I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Callie Bardot. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

A fractured read!

As his heart begins to give way to self-acceptance, he learns the hero's secrets that might just cost him his life...

Such a thrilling, wonderful and fulfilling journey. I am so deeply in love with this story and these characters. In fact, I will be doing a re-read again very very soon.

Lovely narration,