Marked

Boys of Bishop Mountain, Book 1

By: Lexxi James

Narrated by: Samantha Summers, Drew Adams

Jess: Meet Mark Donovan. Ex-Army sniper. CEO of a multi-billion dollar global empire. Chiseled to the nth degree. And a man I want nothing to do with.

I know the type. Dangerous. Sexy. A bad-boy who fills out a Tom Ford suit or pair of Calvin's in equally drool-worthy ways. At his core, the worst kind of heartbreaker. The kind who doesn't even know he did it.

Mark: Eight years ago I nearly died. And it wasn't that I didn't remember her. I didn't recognize her. There's a difference.

She was a kid. And I was a soldier . . . Two seconds from deploying with her brother for our third, and final, tour. One I wasn't sure I'd be coming back from. She thinks I don't remember. That kiss was beautiful. Innocent. It kept me alive when I thought it might be my last. How could I ever forget?

I came back broken. Heartless. Ruthless. I grew rich beyond my wildest dreams by burying the best parts of myself. Who I was. What I'd been through. Killing away all the pieces of me that mattered . . . everything except that kiss.

So, shove me off all you want, country girl. Because you've just landed in my sights, and you're about to be mine.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Lexxi James (P)2023 Tantor

FMC isn’t it

I don’t like to write unkind reviews but, I hope that the authors narrators get better after this book… The FMC reads in a achingly slow speed. I guarantee a 10 minute chapter could’ve been read in 5. The overly long annunciation of words, and we’re not talking random words here and there, we’re talking several words within almost every sentence made me so irritated, I had to speed up her chapters. Thank goodness for that feature or I would have probably not listened. The story line was good. Not my fav but it was decent.

Great story…female narrator, not so much

I loved the story but the female narrator made me almost stop listening and not finish the book. Her voice is extremely slow and robotic. I had to speed it up to 1.9x so it would be at a normal pace but it still drove me crazy with the robotic-like pauses. Otherwise a good read!

It was ok

Kinda dragged on without a point I liked the under tone theme that you didnt realize until the end

Loved it!

I loved this! It was hot, funny and had a great plot. Can’t go wrong with a little mystery to keep those gears turning. I figured part of it out but I was so intrigued! I also loved the family/friend dynamic! And… their military men so ya, super hot! I look forward to more books in this series!

Horrible female narrator

The story was decent, HEA, but the slow unnatural pauses in narration was almost unbearable. I actually pulled the book and read for myself halfway through Audible. Hopefully this narrator has improved on her skills, but it really brought performance to a low. With that said male narrator was excellent.