Out of the Blue

By: Lila Rose

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson, Joel Leslie

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

At 40, Lan Davis is looking for his damned picket fence and two point five kids. What he doesn't expect is instead of a wife in the picture, his mind keeps conjuring up images of two men. One, his partner in the force, who is as straight as they came, the other an ex, who he'd hurt but never forgot.

After an incident leaves Lan injured, the two men rally around him...only maybe they shouldn't have. It seems a medicated Lan is a truthful one.

Parker Wilding is pissed at the world. His anger builds when his partner refuses medical care after an attack. Instead, Lan entrusts his neighbor to take care of him - a guy Parker doesn't trust. While he's aware they share a history, when the past is revealed, the truth shocks the hell out of him.

Being emotionally crushed ten years ago, Easton Ravel hoped he would never have to see the man who broke him again. Hope is a fickle bitch. And now he's not sure how to handle being face-to-face with the man he once loved. Add in the mix the annoying, testy Parker, and Easton finds his limits are pushed.

Just not in the way he thought they would be.

What happens next sure does come out of the blue. 

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Lila Rose (P)2019 Tantor

Sexxxxxxyyyyyy GFY

I’m always a little nervous with threesomes because I worry about jealously and how the third deals when left out. I didn’t have that problem and the low angst made this book great. Very hot sexy times with a great story. Antony and Joel knock it out of the park as usual.

Seems like YA

This is one of only two books out of maybe a hundred that I've listened to and requested a refund. Ugh, like another reviewer, I only got about a quarter of the way through it and realized that nothing was going to make this worth listening to. For starters, I don't get why authors have two narrators if the chapters aren't CLEARLY voiced as one or the other. Actually, there should be three main characters but there are two narrators. I can't even remember who the other one was, because if you are lucky enough to hire Joel Leslie, HAVE HIM READ EVERYTHING. Have him read the phone book. Why give chapters to a less-accomplished narrator? Joel has an enormous range of characters and expressions. I didn't like how the other narrator portrayed the same people we heard just a chapter before.

Also commented before, and not really a spoiler is that the two cop characters are fully in a motorcycle club, breaking laws as they see fit. I get that not all cops are honest, but this just seemed like a stretch to believe, not logical with their characters. Also a stretch to believe is the attitudes of the MC members towards homosexuality.

The biggest complaint from me is that I felt like this was a YA novel. There is so much navel-gazing and "does he really like me?" by these supposed cop/motorcycle gang members, it got to be laughable. My teenage daughter has less angst. It was like any plot was just the sprinkles on the cake of thoughts and feelings. Maybe it gets better, I'll never know. I couldn't force myself to listen to it.

Not to my taste

I’m not quite sure how I missed that this book is about an MC, which I can take or leave, but it’s about cops who secretly belong to an MC which makes them complicit is breaking the law, rather than upholding it. Granted in our current dystopia, this might make them more aligned with justice so it could work out for some readers but I couldn’t do it. Also, one narrator spoke in a whiny tone that grated on my nerves. I made it to about chapter 4 and tapped out.

Throughly enjoyed this story.

First book that I've read / listened to from Lila Rose. Enjoyed it a lot. Didn't realize that this story had other books ahead of it. Now I will go back and read the other stories. Joel Leslie is one of my favorite narrators. I appreciated Antony Ferguson's narration as well. His deeper voice complimented Joel Leslie's voice well.

Loved it

Story and narration were spot on. Recommend!

I received this audiobook at no-cost. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

great read

I'll be reading more from this author! Awesome storyline and romance.

I was pleasantly pleased.

Great

Great story i am so glad Parker and lan found their happy everafter. I love Lila Rose books they are all great stories.

Sexy story!

I loved it! Loved it a loop much, I binged listened to it! Had to give up last night.....my eyes kept closing down, but first thing this morning, had to get my Parker fix! Even now, I miss these characters! It was HOT, sexy and heartfelt! A great listen and read that is hard to put down! So far, the best M/M/M story I have ever read and I can't wait to re-read it again!

Great read🥰

Loved the story line. Hot sex scenes. Romance. Love. HEA. Wished there had been 3 narrators since there were 3 characters. It was weird that one narrator spoke for two men.

Also I wished I had known that there were books before this one. I get that it can be read as a stand-alone. Just a heads up would have been good.

omg this story was amazing

absolutely loved this story was so happy to finally see parker man up wish it could have ended a little different or had one more chapter wanted to see gamers reaction since he knew and see if he was like its about time

Disappointing

Ferguson reads two thirds of the book, and he is mediocre. The sample is Leslie reading. The story was fine but Ferguson was distracting from enjoying it.

Got bored and couldn't finish

I couldn't finish this book. First thing first, I don't listen to MC books, they are not my scene. When I realised this book has MC elements I thought about stopping a few times. I had only started listening to this book because I like both the narrators. However, after listening to over 70% of the book I couldn't understand why we have 2 narrators. I think it would have worked if Antony Ferguson had narrated Parker throughout the book no matter from whose side the chapter was written and Joel Leslie could narrate Lan and Easton. As it was, they read different chapters and the narration got very confusing and kept pulling me out of the story.
The story wasn't very good either. I felt Easton forgave Lan a little two quickly given how badly he had broken his heart. All it took was a Neanderthal act from Lan and acknowledgement in front of his friends, some of whom were gay and bisexual. The story twice went into extreme situations for the main characters to come together. At least one of the situations felt senseless and completely out of place. Then for at least the last 40-45% it dragged. Finally, I got bored and gave up.

Should have stuck with just Joel Leslie to narrate....

Story ok...
Would have been improved if you had just stuck with Joel to narrate..
He’s a master of voices and accents , he could ah e managed this far better alone and it would have made more sense....
Was a bit confusing .... was like 2 different stories ?
And the non Joel story, not as good as the first part with him....

Great

One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to. The characters are lovely complex with great depth and the voice actors are really great as well.