Hated

De: C B Fournier

Narrado por: Maryalice Multari

Antonio, the son of a high-ranking Mafia member, hates how his life has turned out but has lost all motivation to change it. He has nothing left of himself. He just does whatever his father tells him to do without complaint.

Stephanie used to be a normal girl with a normal family and a normal life. But everything changed one day when her parents never came home from work. The only thing they left behind was a book of weird symbols and a locked box with no key.

Antonio and Stephanie's fates are intertwined long before they ever meet. However, can they survive long enough to find the answers they are both looking for, or will they they wind up just like their parents - dead?

©2013 Caitlyn Fournier (P)2018 Caitlyn Fournier

Hated...

This is an interesting story. I grabbed it because it had mafia elements. This is about the son of high ranking mafia and a girl who is indebted to them. It does get confusing at times. There are different gang references and different level mafia references. Then the debt is mentioned being owed a couple times but then not again. The family is beat up often due to Gang rivals and a multitude of other things i didn’t understand. I just let some of that go and tried to concentrate on the main story.

I listened to this on audio. Maryalice Multari Is the narrator. She did have a number of times that she reread the same passage. But for the most she did fine.

Interesting

Very good book. Interesting events happening here. Well written by the author. Performed awesomely. Story was intriguing. Different for me not my normal genre.

Hatred

It has a good story line that kept me interested to keep listening to the end.

Sweet with Some Action

I really enjoyed this story. There were bits that had the feel of Romeo and Juliet in it, but much easier to understand and updated for the times. I really enjoyed getting to know Antonio and Stephanie. There were parts that sucked for these two and many sweet moments between them also. I loved the sound of Maryalice reading, but there were some parts that repeated and some that skipped. I also wasn't a fan of the background white-noise that never seemed to go away too.

Good story but not my favorite narration

I enjoyed this story, however I feel like I would have liked it more in book/ebook form. I hate leaving reviews when I wasn't really satisfied, but it wasnt so much the book as it was the narration. I felt like the narrator was a bit hard to hear and seemed really detached. It felt like someone was reading me a book in the background rather than capturing the essence of the characters and making me feel like I'm in the story.

In the beginning of the book, things are a little confusing. There is a lot of jumping around and switching between dates, times, and character POV. it gets better though and things start adding up. I love the connection between the main characters. Stephanie is such a strong female character who has overcome all the terrible things life has thrown her way. She never gives up fighting, even when she is breaking. Antonio hides behind his emotionless mask, until Stephanie makes him want to feel again. This is a good story with a HEA.