Granted

The Family Secrets Series

De: Ellis Summers

Narrado por: Marina Fess, Eden Gabay

Amazing "Maze" Grant has spent years keeping her distance from her mob family and burying her own dark past. But when her grandfather goes on the run, the clan's dangerous spotlight falls squarely on her—and the ancient family journal her great-grandfather secretly left in her keeping.

Her relatives are convinced she's hiding it. With the family patriarch out of the picture, they summon Maze to Paris for an interrogation she can't refuse.

Trapped between an Interpol agent blackmailing her with her past and deadly threats against her fiancé, Maze realizes there’s only one way out: she has to take down her entire family.

But as a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse takes her from San Francisco to Paris, and finally to a deadly showdown in Scotland, Maze uncovers a sinister truth. The family doesn't just want the journal back—they'll kill to keep its darkest secrets buried.

©2022 Ellis Summers (P)2026 Ellis Summers

Granted!

This is the final installment to "Grant" series. It is intriguing, interesting and well narrated. It is a definite page turner with a bit of unexpected and irresistible twists and turns. It is a good end to a series with mystery, suspense, intrigue, adventure, humor and much more.

Granted

Loved the dual narration of Marina Fess and Eden Gabay

This family saga gets better and better. We find out what happens to the three cousins.
We have great characters, drama , humour, intrigue, mystery, adventure and unexpected twists and turns around every corner. You will be kept on your toes.

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Peculiar Story

I'm not quite sure what to think of this story. It's hard to pin down a single genre, and even then, of those that could claim it, the story lacks particular elements of each. For instance, it felt like suspense early on but then more of a thriller as the tension and the consequences built, but it didn't have the crucial thriller must-have scene where the protagonist is at the mercy of the villain against seemingly impossible odds. It has multiple romantic aspects, but elements of the supposed romances are decidedly unromantic. All this makes the book feel a bit hazy and unsatisfying. I did enjoy the first half of the book, as we learn some background about what's going on and see the female protagonist endangered nearly every time she turns around, including by some she had trusted previously, while she's grappling with each shock or change and trying to piece together what she should do given her constantly evolving situation.

The book fell apart for me after this first half, once the big European family get-together started, first in France before moving to Scotland. I don't know if it would have helped if I had read or listened to the previous books in the series, but there were so many family members of different generations (and even so many hired help!) with different relationships and allegiances—which were also shifting, aside from being numerous, as the story went along—that I felt like I needed to draw a diagram to keep it all straight. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't like to have to work that hard to understand a book; I listen to audiobooks for pure enjoyment (if fiction) or enlightenment (if nonfiction). Some characterizations, like the rapidly changing Clay, also seemed absolutely bizarre to me. We learn more about him later, but it just came across as odd as his storyline unfolded with a rapid pivot. It also felt like the author was holding back on key information about characters for too long, making the large cast of characters more confusing and inconsistent than they should have been. As you may be able to tell, I wasn't wild about this story.