Loving Mr. Daniels

By: Brittainy Cherry

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Jennifer Stark

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's Summary

To Whom It May Concern,

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soul mates. Yet I believed we were both. Forbidden soul mates.

When I arrived in Edgewood, Wisconsin, I didn't plan to find him. I didn't plan to stumble into Joe's bar and have Daniel's music stir up my emotions. I had no clue that his voice would make my hurts forget their own sorrow. I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss.

When I started senior year at my new school, I wasn't prepared to call him Mr. Daniels, but sometimes life happens at the wrong time for all the right reasons.

Our love story wasn't only about the physical connection. It was about family. It was about loss. It was about being alive. It was silly. It was painful. It was mourning. It was laughter. It was ours.

And for those reasons alone, I would never apologize for loving Mr. Daniels.

-Ashlyn Jennings

©2014 Brittainy C. Cherry (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫

I'm going to start with how I felt at the beginning of this book...
Another great YA story with some seriously heartbreaking tough situations. The main characters were both broken by death. They found each other exactly when they needed each other the most. The "illegal" part of this story was a bit cliche but it took me about 30 minutes to get past that and fall in love with these two, together.

The ending of this story was maybe a bit cheesy, I love a happy ending but this entire story was about Ashlyn learning who she was and how she dealt with so much but this was a little too much "perfect ending" for such a broken girl. I guess it just felt a little like this story needed a little less"perfect ending" and maybe it was too perfect to make it believable for me.

The narration was great I enjoyed them both.

LOSS, LONGING, LIFE.. & FORBIDDEN LOVE

A breathtaking NA romance as 22 yr old Daniel and 19 yr old Ashlyn knew what it was like to grieve - and grieve hard.. as the rest of the world laughed and got on with their own lives.. unaware of the turmoil, the sorrow - and the guilt that consumed these broken and very complex people. However, a chance meeting would bring these two lost souls together and like would find like through mutual attraction, through their shared grief, through sizzling chemistry.. and through Shakespeare's meaningful words. But unfortunately Fate stepped in and threw a major spanner into their budding intense relationship and the reality of their impossible situation would create a tsunami that would bring drama, angst, many tears and much heartbreak. And, as the deadly waters receded, the emotional wreckage that was left behind could only be healed by time.. so they sacrificed their todays now for a chance of tomorrows sometime in the years ahead.

This is NOT a happy feel good romance - it's gritty, it deals with death, grief and all that comes with the premature loss of loved ones - either by disease or by the actions of another - but the result is the same.. a gaping whole, a shattered heart and broken dreams. However, it IS a beautiful NA love story that'll touch your soul, break your heart and then piece it back together again to make a story that was compelling, beautiful and unforgettable too. The sex wasn't over done and the tender words shared between these star-crossed lovers sears your soul.. as does the gay step-brother's dilemma of coming out and all the hurtful heartbreaking scenes that followed. Daniel was broken, damaged, gorgeous, thoughtful, caring, sexy and the Lead Singer of Romeo's Quest and Ashlyn was lost, lonely, alone, abandoned and broken too. Together they healed and found the other half of their soul. Dual POV, great narration and a storyline that had a few surprises up its sleeve that I never saw coming.

Worth a credit? I don't usually like NA but I do like Brittainy Cherry and she absolutely floored me with this unique, moving, memorable and very creditworthy listen.

Immature and ridiculous

What disappointed you about Loving Mr. Daniels?

I start eye-rolling almost immediately. I really wanted to like it, but the story was unable to evoke any emotion even through such tragic events.

This book is a MUST

If you could sum up Loving Mr. Daniels in three words, what would they be?

Beautiful, Heartwarming, Unforgetable

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mr. Daniels was my favorite character.

What about Vikas Adam and Jennifer Stark ’s performance did you like?

I have listened to many audio books with good narrators. However, the narration on this book was supurb

Any additional comments?

This has to ne one of the best novels I have read in years. You will miss out on a great love story if you pass this one up

Move over 50 Shades & Gabriel's Inferno!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

absolutely, especially to my friends who enjoyed the crossfire series, 50 Shades and Gabriel's Inferno Series.

What did you like best about this story?

Mr. Daniels, of course! How much more perfect could he be?!

Which character – as performed by Vikas Adam and Jennifer Stark – was your favorite?

Mr. Daniels, but they were all performed very, very well!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The book starts off by capturing your attention with the death of the twin and doesn't let up until the very end. She had me hooked from chapter 1.

Any additional comments?

I knew from the description that I would like this book, but I didn't foresee me falling in love with Mr. Daniels the way I did. For some reason that teacher/student relationship gets to me every single time. It reminded me quite a bit of Gabriel's Inferno series, but with more tragedy right from the start. As obsessed with Gabriel's Inferno as I still am and it's been years, this book would rank right up there with that series. From drugs, death, star-crossed lovers, father-daughter relationship, step siblings, to a beautiful love story that will provoke a vast array of feelings. This is a book you will want to read and re-read, at least that is how it is for me.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the crossfire series, 50 Shades of Grey, or the Gabriel Inferno series, but in my opinion it far surpassed the 50 Shades Series!

The cover does not do this book justice.

Disappointing

A friend recommended this book because she thought it was amazing, couldn't put it down. Maybe because I'm a little older, but this story was so old and predictable. Student and teacher sneaking around to be with each other and of course she has huge breasts that they can't stop talking about. And all the crying the girl does is so ridiculous. Needless to say I will not be recommending to anyone.

This book covers the entire emotional spectrum!!

I don't remember the last time a book made me laugh/cry so much!! LOVED IT!!!

Emotional Ride!

Wow.... this writer reminds me of Nicholas Sparks! Great story but man, my emotions were all over the place!i laughed, I cried, I got angry! Every emotion was experienced in this book, and it takes a brilliant author to pull that off...

Destroyed

This was my last unread Brittainy Cherry book and she did not disappoint. She brought everything to the table that I have learned to expect from her. Happy, sad, love, romance, angst and finally a happy ending. There is no greater mix for a book in this genre.

Although slightly taboo, it's on the mild side and I don't believe it to be trigger worthy. I think Brittainy intentionally made it so that there would be no questions about morality. More ethical in nature but still not enough that I would categorize as taboo.

Awesome....

What a touching and beautiful book. It will have you in tears and it will make you root for them.
Beautiful written and it never turned cheesy. The romance between the two were beautiful and soooo perfect.
Narration was good.

Slow starter

Firstly this book was good and I did want to keep turning those pages.
It seemed slow at the beginning and I started to wonder if it would ever pick up the pace and would I enjoy it? The two main characters were likeable but Ashlyn could be a little to self involved at times and Daniel a bit to overkill on the romance/poetic talk. The sex was ok, there was some in there but it wasn’t to out there or dirty. I wasn’t to keen on chapters swopping to different characters telling the story either. There was quite a bit of death too. Overall it was ok and a good read but maybe for me personally a bit to much death which seem to overtake the whole book/storyline instead of the relationship between the two main characters.

Good (if you are an older teenager)

I found this book difficult to rate. For me personally, this book was an eye-rolling 3 stars, if that. However, I’m clearly not the target audience so I didn’t think it was fair of me to bring the rating down because some people would adore this book, and it is decently written. I decided to rate it as if I were the person who should have purchased the book instead of a a 30 something year old woman who doesn’t suffer fools.

You need to be able to relate to a 19 year old who acts more like a much younger teenager with ‘you’ve ruined my life’ tantrums, put up with side characters who make stupid decisions and have a lack of self worth and I think are supposed to be acting like ‘normal’ teenagers (though I don’t remember me or any of my friends being like that when we were 14, let alone older like the characters in this book). Also high school drama and angst, lots of tears and a star crossed love affair filled with poetry, sonnets and Shakespeare.

I bet if you connect with that sort of story then you will love this book. I however, do not.