Kiss My Heart Goodbye

Heart's Intent, Book 4

By: Dawn Brower

Narrated by: Libby Marshall

Length: 7 hrs

Publisher's summary

Sullivan Brady has always followed his own rules. The biggest one: Don't get attached. When his sister went missing when he was a child, it taught him a hard lesson. Sometimes loving someone leaves you open to unimaginable pain. He vowed to never be in that position with anyone ever again - until Lana. She alone touches his heart and has the power to heal age-old wounds. When she almost dies, he loses it and starts to question every decision he's ever made.

Surviving a car accident quickly followed by heart surgery leaves Lana Kelly vulnerable. She's always had a soft spot for Sullivan but has tried her best to keep him at a distance. Only a fool would trust him to honor a commitment regarding matters of the heart. He's known for his serial dating and inability to love. When he starts a campaign to win Lana's heart, she is ill prepared to fight him.

As the days go by, Lana starts to believe in a happy ever after with Sullivan. Someone else has other ideas, though, and they might not survive long enough to discover what true happiness is.

©2017 Dawn Brower (P)2018 Dawn Brower

Pluses and Minuses

Pluses and Minuses

I quite enjoyed the first book of this series, though I thought the heroine flew off the handle too often, but was not wild about the series’ third book at all. This book falls somewhere between those two. The hero’s character came in later in book one, but I quite liked him. However, his character seems to have changed somewhat in this book, and not in a good way! He came across as a genuinely good guy in that first book, haunted by the ghost of his long-missing sister and how that affected their little nuclear family. In this book, he's portrayed as a bit of a player (and even a man-ho’) … a vibe I never got from him in the first book. This audiobook is significantly longer than several others in this series, potentially allowing the author more room to explore characterization and plot. I don't feel the author used that extra word real estate to the best advantage. I also felt like the hero flipped-flopped a bit without really showing true growth between point A and point B. He suddenly goes from being a player to being solely devoted to the heroine without an epiphany even, let alone a true character growth arc. The story is the classic romantic pairing of a wealthy hero and a heroine below him in social status. The heroine was believable and likable, even if she could be a bit prickly at times. I don't blame her for not trusting the hero, given how he had treated her before and allowed others to treat her in his presence.

I found the narrator problematic. While I never listen to audiobooks at 1.0 speed, I actually had to increase it for this one because, even at my normal 1.5 reading speed, the narrator spoke way tooooooo slowly and left too many looooong pauses. I don't want an audiobook to put me to sleep because it is so slow!

Story is great narration needs some work

The author gives you a pleasant listen filled with touching romance, a little danger, a mystery, a few heart breaks and healing. This series has been a delight to listen to, with lots of passion and pain. It is a believable story with wonderful characters. I really enjoyed the mystery and seeing how this couple would deal with their issues. There are a few surprises that will make your mouth drop open, sure didn’t see that coming.


The narration isn’t bad, until you get about two hours in, the narration words do drag a little and than it is like she skips words or part of the words. I really didn’t feel the emotions through her narration, some of her character voices are close to others, it was hard to know who was talking at times. She does give some emotions but I just didn’t feel the anger, tears or shock. There are no background noises, there are a few place where she did repeat words. I am pretty sure when she took a few breaks. This is one that was hard to get through and after about 4 hours I put it away and just read the book.

I really have enjoyed this series, I thought the author did a great job giving a good plot with good characters. She keeps it interesting, the danger is an unexpected surprise, the characters is very likable and the story believable. I look forward to the next book in this series.

sweet as honeysuckle

a very sweet and adorable story about giving a second chance I loved the book it was adorable and very well told it was very interesting and the narrator was great
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Interesting Story!

This is the fourth book in the Heart's Intent. I haven't listened to the first book in the Series. The characters are great. The story is filled with twists, intrigue, suspense, and romance. The narration was good. I received this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily written this review.

A sweet, second chance romance........

Kiss My Heart Goodbye is the fourth book in this series, and I definitely wish that I had read the first three prior to this one. Although the author tries to make this a standalone, and I quickly picked up on the characters, I felt that I was missing a large portion of the backstory. This made it difficult for me to become invested in the relationship between the main characters, Lana and Sully. It seemed like Sully just decided Lana and he would be a couple, and, voila, they were a couple. Luckily, the push and pull that is a staple in the romance genre came after that point. Sully had unintentionally hurt Lana in their past, and that left her extremely guarded with her heart. Include with that Sully's man-whore ways, and he had a challenge getting Lana to trust him. Added to the fairly low level relationship angst was a mystery and some life-threatening action, both of which the author wrapped up skillfully with a plausible solution at the end. Overall, this was an enjoyable story, and I plan to read the first three in the series soon.

My review of Libby Marshall is mixed. She has a pleasant voice, and I liked her tone and use of emphasis. However, her delivery is somewhat stilted and clunky. I found this distracted from the plot and story, and I am not sure that I would listen to another of her narrations in the future.

I received a copy of this audiobook at my request in exchange for this honest review.

Had a little trouble finishing this book...

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

So so much potential

This storyline has so much potential. But it was lacking in alot of the actual story building. I understand her resentment toward her teenage crush not returning her feelings but to the extent she did was a bit much. And the way their story progressed there was no feeling in it because of how quickly it went. I felt no real connection with the characters and I hated that. I just felt it was a bit rushed when the writer has so much potential to work with in way of the story. It jumped around a bit. I do like how the story wrapped up in the end and how despite everything I had to finish the book to see what happened because there were some turns and twists in the story I didn't see coming. Its a good storyline with a steamy ending. The narrator did a wonderful job bringing the story to life.

I requested and was given this audiobook complimentary at my request and have voluntarily left this review with my honest opinion.

Good story

I got this ARC via audiobook boom and this is my voluntary review. The story was a good story. Filled with several twists. I could not get into her anger at Sully because of the way his friends treated her. Nor could I understand as a strong woman that she would be mean at him because he did not return her love when she was a teen. He was 4 years older than she and respected her. He also did not know she loved him. If a person does not know you have feelings for them how do you hold them accountable for that? Also, how do you hold an older guy accountable for respecting your age and not allowing his feelings for you to come out until you are old and wise enough to understand them? These are questions I have about the story.

LOVED IT!

I absolutely loved this book. It was full of twists, suspense and romance. I couldn't put it down. The narration was outstanding and gave the story that extra flair. It will really keep you entertained. The author did an excellent job with the character builds and plot. I read this book without reading the previous ones in this series but you don't need to! I am so glad I was introduced to this series and really look forward reading more books from this author. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Sweet romantic suspense

Lazana, aka Lana, has always loved the son of her mother’s employer. When Sully didn’t defend her from his then-girlfriend, her teen heart was broken and she resolved to move on. Now almost a decade has passed and the tables have turned. After a car accident leaves Lana in a coma, Sullivan acknowledges that he loves Lana and willingly gives up his playboy ways. Now he just needs to convince Lana that he’s serious so she will stop fighting with him. But is Lana safe? It appears that someone doesn’t want Lana around...let’s not forget that one of Sully’s employee’s has been murdered at work! Lots going on in this book...murder, mayhem, a wedding...all while Sullivan is trying to win over Lana.
Good story but more enjoyable if you’ve read earlier books in the series so you know all of the supporting characters.
I accepted a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Narrator ruined it for me

Yeah I never feel good when a narrator keeps mispronouncing words. It just kind of ruined the whole thing. Also it was super slow and I had to speed it up to 1.8x just so it sounded normal.

Frustrating, but the mistery will keep you turning

I was really looking forward to Lana's story but It is not what I expected.
Lana woke up as her same spit fire self, after being in a coma for a week. Sullivan brings out the tiger in her and his face was the first she see when she opened her eyes.

With Lana's personality and the way she and Sullivan and her Ignite each, I was expecting both of them take matters in their hands and figure out who is trying to mess with their lives.
I was so frustrated waiting for everything to unfold.
I could clearly figure out who the culprit were but the mistery of how eveything will unravel, was what kept me going.
Why would Sullivan even think about hireing another ex! knowing how mean she is.
The slow movement of the story annoyed me so much but I couldn't stop listening. I had to know how it ends.